Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

one of my favorite books by my mentors Dr. Stephen Covey he wrote seven habits of highly effective people and one of the habits is seek first to understand then to be understood...

And Robert Greene, who I also interviewed on my show, he's the author of the Laws of Human Nature and the 50th Laws of Power, huge author.

bestselling author of The Blue Zones.

If you read the book like I did, The Millionaire Next Door, when I finished reading that book, it was a super, super successful book. And it suggested that to become a millionaire, you need to not brew your own coffee. Don't go to Starbucks.

Supreme, which is one of my, like my Moby Dick was Supreme.

And his new book is called Super Communicators, which is gonna be the focus of today's conversation.

When we look at super communicators, we see some sort of consistent behaviors beyond asking deep questions and beyond looping for understanding.

It's called The Worlds I See.

The book is the coming of age of a young scientist. I experienced the world of science in different stages, but also the world as an immigrant, and learning to be a human.

I hope you read my book, The Worlds I See, because the book is written to young people, for young people. It's a coming of age of a scientist and the true theme of the book is finding your North Star, finding your passion and believing in that against all odds.

The book is written to help young people discover their passion and pursue their North Star, which is the core of entrepreneurship.

Your latest book, it's Get Clear Career Assessment. Find the Work That You're Wired To Do.

The book is written as though I'm coaching.

It's a 45minute read that catches you right at your assessment results to get clear.

Ken Coleman. He's a Ramsay personality and number one bestselling author of The Proximity Principle.

In 2019, you wrote about The Proximity Principle.

The principle says this in order to do what I want to do. You have to be around people that are doing it and in places where it is happening.

I didn't expect the book to do as well as it did.

Most people in today's world want fastforward stories, but the simple idea is if you keep showing up around the right people in the right places, good stuff will happen.

One of my favorite books is called Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud.

In Necessary Endings he talks about pruning a rosebush - you have to cut away dead leaves and stems, which may look bare for a moment but ultimately helps the plant grow stronger.

We get great psychological income, spiritual income, fulfillment from meeting someone and go, hey, our business was doing two million a year. ... The Total Money Makeover on finances or whatever.

Your 2021 release. It was called Paycheck to Purpose, another best seller.

Paycheck to Purpose was providing that seven stages of what it looks like to get on top of your professional mountain.

It was a bestseller, but we actually wrote this to get the assessment on Amazon.

So I read the book by the CEO of Blackstone where he talks about it's just as easy to create a big company as it is to create a small company.

And that really resonated with me because I think that what he explained is that it is easier to recruit talent if you have a big vision than to recruit talent if you have a small vision.

His latest book, Slow Productivity, has sold millions of copies and been translated into over forty languages.

Back when you released Deep Work in 2016, and now you've got a newly released book called Slow Productivity, which I really, really enjoyed getting to read.

My most recent book, Slow Productivity, really gets into this.

The three principles of Slow Productivity are do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over quality.

I love this. It's the fastest way to get people to slow down and focus on depth.

He's the best-selling author behind Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and his latest book, Slow Productivity.

Back when you released Deep Work in 2016, and now you've got a newly released book called Slow Productivity.

Deep Work is the first book I published and wrote after becoming a professor.

Deep Work was the title and the core idea of my book, Deep Work from 2016.

It took 10 years of that before I had my first major hardback national release.

He currently writes for The New Yorker, and he's the author of several bestselling books, including The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better.

He published The Origin Of Species at age 50 and that was a peak of his career.

Johann is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist and speaker known for his book Stolen Focus, Why You Can't Pay Attention.

for my book Stolen Focus you know I wrote it for a very personal reason I could feel my own attention was getting worse and each year that passed things that require deep focus that are really important to me reading books watching movies having long conversations with my friends were just getting harder and harder.

you wrote this book called Lost Connections also was a bestselling book.

the book Lost Connections is full of this advice

for my book Lost Connections like from my other books, I learned a huge amount from interviewing scientists and experts.

I wrote a book called The Blue Zones Challenge. You can get it on Amazon.