This week, Ashto and Jonesy learn different ways to utilise their wealth to live a fulfilling life from one of the most successful hedge fund managers and entrepreneurs in the world Bill Perkins. Written from Perkins’ personal experiences and other cautionary tales, Die with Zero is a guide to living rich instead of dying rich. In this book, Perkins also provides eye-opening insights into time, money, and happiness based on psychological science and behavioural finance studies. Amongst many other principles you’ll learn in this book, Perkins believes that your life experiences can be quantified and optimised. Die with Zero will teach you how to avoid over-saving your money and under-living your life. So, get ready to discover ways to maximise your life by identifying the best times to make the most of your earnings and invest in meaningful experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You might think that you don’t need to buy a book about dating and relationships. Isn’t love something effortless, natural, and organic? You should be falling in love without thinking your way into it because love is a spontaneous chemical reaction, not a calculated decision. Even though people hold onto these beliefs, finding love doesn’t always work out perfectly. But here’s the truth: while love may be a natural instinct, dating isn’t. In How to Not Die Alone, dating coach and matchmaker Logan Ury touches on different factors that could be preventing us from finding love. Remember the happily ever after fallacy? It’s the mistaken belief that the hard work of love is about finding someone – but that’s only the first act of your love story. The next part is hard, too – making the relationship last for the long haul.Drawn from years of research, insights from behavioural science, and real life experiences, How to Not Die Alone offers guidance to finding, building, and sustaining a relationship that accommodates your needs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Ashto and Jonesy will delve into some of the major findings of Dr Greger’s decades of research on the 15 top causes of premature death. How Not to Die is filled with helpful advice to prevent chronic illnesses and get better health outcomes through consuming healthier foods. It has been repeatedly proven that healthier diets (such as whole-food or plant-based diets) aren’t just effective in preventing diseases, but often stopping them on their track. From this book, we all can learn how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills or other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches. This week, we’ll learn how to apply Dr Greger’s practical and actionable advice to live healthier lives and not die from chronic diseases prematurely. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Written by the world-renowned spiritual guru Sadhguru, Death explains the concept of death from a spiritual standpoint, questioning the negative connotations that often surround mortality. Just like life, death is made up of three important components: biological, physical, and metaphysical. While our biological and psychological understandings of death have increased, science doesn’t acknowledge the possibility that something beyond our human sense perception could precede life or succeed death. In this book, Sadhguru draws upon his inner experience to pinpoint and explore the philosophical aspects of death. Death is an eye-opening guide to understanding how we perceive grief and hopefully preparing us to make a beautiful experience out of death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we wrap up the year of podcasting, Jonesy and Ashto review our favourite book we read and reviewed on the podcast this year. After going through a few honourable mentions, we share our respective "Top 10s", plus a special musical treat at the end based on a couple of the books high up on the list (apologies for the long time fans "the song" is not back yet... this is a different song) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Ashto and Jonesy learns the basic knowledge you need to have when you (or your partner) fall pregnant and a few basic do’s and don’ts about pregnancy that you may not have thought about before. A compilation of advice and guidelines backed by the latest research, What to Expect When You're Expecting is one of the best go-to manuals for new parents around the world. In this book, Heidi Murkoff explains the week-to-week overview of pregnancy and touches on important points such as diet, self-care, and possibilities of complications. This book also prepares expectant parents by addressing problems and issues regarding today’s rapidly changing society and how it affects the use of alternative medicine, assisted conception, and various options for labour and delivery. Revised and adapted to meet best Australian practice, any expectant parent should consider reading What to Expect When You're Expecting to understand the basics of pregnancy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David and Goliath is an investigation into what happens when the ‘underdog’ is forced to face an outsize challenge. In this book, Malcolm Gladwell asks us to reconsider how we perceive obstacles and disadvantages in our lives. He argues that the same qualities and traits that appear to give the ‘giants’ their strength are also their weakness points. Drawn from history and psychology, Gladwell uses a compelling narrative to reshape the way we see the world around us and practise what might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. We do need a better guide to face our giants, and there is no better place to start that journey than with the epic confrontation between David and Goliath 3,000 years ago in the Valley of Elah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stolen Focus is a guide that can help us reclaim our focus, whether as individuals or as a society. If you’re getting interrupted while focusing on something, on average, it takes 23 minutes for you to get back into a state of focus. But there never seems to be enough stillness, or cool and clear space for you to stop and think. When you are unable to pay sustained attention you can't achieve the things you want to achieve. You want to read a book, but you are pulled away by the pings and paranoias of social media. You want to spend a few uninterrupted hours with your child, but you keep checking your email to see if your boss is messaging you. You want to set up a business, but your life dissolves into a blur of facebook posts that only make you feel more anxious. Johann Hari found twelve deep causes of this crisis. In this book he breaks down these issues based on his research findings and arguments, and teaches us how to improve our ability to pay attention and restore our productivity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Jonesy and Ashto learn an unconventional approach to making the best use of their time from Four Thousand Weeks. In contrast to other time management or productivity books, this book debunks the idea of time management as we know it. Productivity is a trap. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved the ideal work-life balance. You certainly won’t get there by simply joining the ‘5 am club’ or copying ‘The 6 Things Successful People Do Before 7 am’ that you see on Instagram. In this book, Oliver Burkeman draws on the insights of ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers to offer a profound guide to time management. Four Thousand Weeks teaches us the tools for building a meaningful life by embracing finitude. So let’s start by admitting defeat: you’ll never have everything under control. But you know what? That’s excellent news! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Ashto and Jonesy delve into Swipe to Unlock: an introduction to technology and business strategy concepts, and a compulsory read for anyone pursuing a career in the tech industry. Understanding technology is becoming essential no matter what you do for a living. Doctors are now using artificial intelligence to diagnose patients. Farmers are using drones to grow better crops. If the world’s biggest companies used to be oil and electric firms, they have now been replaced by the likes of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.In this book, Aditya Agashe, Neel Mehta and Parth Detroja use real-life examples to break down software, hardware and business strategies, and show you the tools to understand them better. You don’t need to be a master coder to learn these technological concepts. Whether it’s the ins and outs of the internet or the business strategies of tech giants, the authors of Swipe to Unlock believe that everything is understandable in plain, simple English. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.