Anthony Oleman argues men should read more books instead of scrolling social media, citing Eat That Frog and Company of One as examples that improve focus. He's asking viewers to share their top book recommendations.
Questions this video answers
"Eat That Frog" (Brian Tracy); "Company of One"
Podcast episode with Aidan Lee (about 37 minutes in they discuss books).
The David Gandhi podcast, episode 50 (stated as over 30,000 downloads and over 500 likes on YouTube).
Okay, so today's Walk and Talk. I laughed because I went to record this and literally fucked up like the first word. I couldn't even manage to say hello without getting it wrong. So we've pressed the reset button and let's try again with the old simple things like hello and how are you and stuff. It's very tough on a Friday. But firstly, podcast is out with Aidan Lee. So that came out well, technically very late last night. Thanks for the guys that have already watched or listened and given us some comments. But about 37 minutes and a bit in we get talking about books. And books are quite useful if you hadn't realized already. And Aidan gave us a selection of the books that he suggested that men might read. And there was about five or six. And so I won't list them all here. You'll have to watch the podcast. But it's very interesting to talk about that because I think these days books might be such a, you know, a forgotten tool to help a guy do life better because so many people spend their time pissing about on social media, scrolling, watching videos on things and not actually necessarily sitting down and completely focusing on reading a book. And I tell you why I like books more than watching stuff on, you know, YouTube and blah, blah, much as I enjoy that, is because you don't get notifications, you don't get the distractions that you get when you're watching something. All the little pings and little next suggestion of something that you could be or adverts and stuff like that. So it's really interesting with Aidan because obviously several of the books from he's from a martial arts background, is very much about martial arts, but about men and about kind of becoming a warrior. And I just wondered, I'd love to create a little list of let's say the top 10 or top 20 books that men think that other men would take great value from reading. So this is where I'd ask for your help. Whenever you're reading this, I'd love you to either comment below if you can, and or be on LinkedIn or YouTube or whatever, or email me anthonyolemanacademy.com and tell me what's the one book that you'd love all men across the world to read. Now I've got several and it depends on what the guy's circumstances are for me, to be honest, which is why it's very difficult to pick just one book. But things like Eat that Frog, I found Brian Tracy were very, very helpful in helping me get through any challenges. That I had in life because the old procrastination for the nation. So that's certainly one book I would suggest. Recently I suggested one called Company of One for guys that are interested in small business as opposed to some large, large kind of conglomerate or behemoth or whatever it's called. So, yeah, it's always. For me, it's very hard to select just one book because it depends on a guy, you know, if he's looking to improve his health. There's certain books by maybe Ben Greenfield or ones for building muscle. If it's to do with nutrition, there's shitloads of stuff with maybe Dave Asprey, people like that. So it depends. But yeah, I'd love you to comment below. Just let me know if there's one book or a couple, doesn't matter, that you think would be ideal for, you know, all men across the world to listen to if it was on audio or read, sit down and enjoy. So do that if you can. Apart from that, for the whole man academy. So that's our first week done of walk and talk. So I hope you enjoyed them. That's five this week. And what we try and do is do them every weekday. And I'll give myself a weekend off, unless I said I'm desperate to come out and chat to you guys as well. But you've got enough content to get through with 115 podcasts in the. In the can. So, yeah, work backwards if you need to with those. There's some great ones there. Our David Gandhi podcast, which is episode 50, has now had, I think over 30,000 downloads or whatever and just. Just moonwalked past 500 likes on YouTube, which is great because, you know, getting to people watch stuff and actually, like, it isn't always easy. So that's it from me. I hope you enjoyed our walk and talks this week. Again, comment below right now if you can, with the, you know, the one book or a couple of books you would love a guy to read. And that leads me to say, enjoy your weekend. I'll be back on Monday. And remember, the world needs strong men. Right, I'm out of here.
