The Book Hack

I hadn’t read too many books during the first half of this year. Like everything else, my hack for this malady and increase the count was to read smaller and easier to finish books. Sounds like a really lazy approach and a horrendous metric to track.

However, this very approach led me to 2 really profound books that I would not have otherwise read (Pulitzer winning Non fiction and Magical humorous fiction work best for me) and the best TED video I’ve seen this year.

The first was Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and the second was The Laws of Medicine by the Pulitzer winning Dr. Siddhartha Mukerjee.

The first book deals with Life, Death, Acceptance, Love, Values, and an individual Culture that can be infectious and transcend many seemingly inexplicable barriers. The second deals with the art and science of navigating with limited resources a complex labyrinth littered with blind spots misleading sign posts.

You can watch the video that inspired The Laws of Medicine here:

But the most important thing and management lesson that these books and talk taught me was to change the frame of reference, and as mentioned in the talk – the mechanisms, models, and metaphors when faced with seemingly unsolvable problems or insurmountable odds.

What say?