Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Robin Sharma’s book recommendations 📚 #nonfiction #robinsharma

26 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker (Robin Sharma) shares a curated list of books he recommends for personal development and inspiration, spanning poetry, children's literature, self‑help, creativity, and biography. He mentions Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Carina Pauling’s Hope for the Flowers, Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, James Allen’s As You Think It, Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo da Vinci, and his own book on Steve Jobs. He then shifts to a personal anecdote about Nelson Mandela, urging listeners to read The Mandela Way and describing his transformative experience standing in Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island. He highlights Mandela’s discipline as a member of the “5 AM Club,” illustrating how even in a prison cell one can rise at 5 AM, run in place, and do push‑ups before sunrise, framing this as a powerful metaphor for eliminating excuses and embracing disciplined habits.

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he recommend to the world? The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Hope for the Flowers by Carina Pauling, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, As You Think It by James Allen, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, the biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. Even his book on Steve Jobs is just Masterful. Nelson Mandela, if you can get your hands on a book called The Mandela Way, it's a very personal book of his. My life changed when I stood in his prison cell where he lived for 18 years. By the way, he was a member of the 5 AM Club. And if you could get up at 5 AM in a prison cell on Robben Island and run on the spot and do push-ups every morning before the sun came up, I don't think we have a lot of excuses.