Influential Books for Leadership and Mindfulness

Speaker 2
If we look at the entire spectrum of books you've read, I'll try to help narrow them down, and then we'll move into some different lines of questioning. But what books would you say, aside from your own, that you have gifted to other people or recommended the most to other people? Those people could be high-level athletes. I'm just wondering if there are a handful of books that you tend to gift the most or recommend the most to other people. A
Speaker 1
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind used to be one that I would recommend years ago. So it depends on the time and who the person is. But I think more recently, when we're talking about performance, when I'm working with clients, there's a book called The Three Laws of Performance. This is what that looks like. It's a really good one. Steve
Speaker 2
Saffron and Dave Lover.
Speaker 1
Yeah. And then On Becoming a Leader, these are the books that I've been reading recently by Warren Bennis. Warren Bennis, yeah. Lots of good stuff. Yeah. The thing I like about it, he says, to become a leader, you have to become yourself. So I've been focusing on leadership a little bit more recently. But any of the books that, you know, some of the books about the teachings of the Buddha or psychology books. I read a lot of Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety, Eric Fromm. It's a bunch of guys, obviously. Viktor Frankl's book, Man's Search for Meaning, would be a good one. It's really challenging for me to answer that question because it's fluid. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
that world? When I was working at the medical center, and at that time we had the prison project, we were in about five department of corrections, Massachusetts department of corrections, prisons. But I also taught at their training facility. I used to work with staff, do two cycles a year, teaching the staff mindfulness-based stress reduction. At that time, John used to go to this place called Omega Institute. John Kabat-Zinn. And he was out there, him and his partner, Saki Santorelli, and they met. Phil used to do a program called Beyond Basketball there. So they were there on campus at the same time and they were talking.

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