7 Books EVERYONE in Their 20's Should Read

Essential reads for your career, finances, productivity, and more.

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00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Relationships
01:33 - Productivity
03:37 - Personal Finance
07:43 - Career Success
12:32 - Health

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[Thomasfrank]

🧐 Small correction: The scenario from "A Random Walk" was $5, 500/yr for 45 years. Either way, I hope the illustration shows you just how powerful a tax-advantaged retirement account can be! Max those things out if you can. More personal finance stuff coming soon!
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[statusvideolk]

1.The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
2.The Productivity Project
3.Your Money The Missing Manual
4.A Random Walk Down Wall Street
5.Pivot
6.The Personal MBA
7.Spark The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise And The Brain

[Ghost_with_Bow]

Incase anyone want to copy paste the book titles
7 habits of highly effective people
The productivity project
Your money the missing manual
Random walk down wallstreet
Pivot
The personal MBA
Spark

[barronness]

I recommend "Essentialism: Disciplined Pursuit of Less" by Greg McKeown. I read this at my early 20s. Still relevant to this day. This book gave me a headstart on how to focus on the essential in different aspects of my life. That helped in saving my energy and time to what contributes significantly to my growth. 💖💖💖 Always a fan of your book recos

[justchillin]

For those of you who tend to overthink everything, I highly recommend you to read Don't Sweat The Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson. Back then I had a pretty severe anxiety. I used to try to figure out what everyone was thinking, why bad things happened to me, why people couldn't understand me. But this book really changed my perspective. I can't say that I stopped overthinking right away, but at least I do it a lot less than I used to. This book is really simple and straightforward so it's super easy to let it sink in. Also, each chapter only consists of 2-3 pages so don't worry about losing your focus

[SuperFreshKiss]

The Defining Decade is also a great book. It's written by a psychologist and it talks about how important your twenties are. Highly recommend it.

[greymatters]

I recommend "The Defining Decade" by Dr. Jay Meg. I read this at 22. Still relevant as ever and it put words to the confusions I was feeling in Uni, with my future, my relationships everything. The key message was that Twenty-something is learning the mental tools to survive in adulthood. And in this small window, they can still quickly course-correct (with a lot of frustration) their life.

[AhmetKaan]

"Our brains actually don't mind hard work, we just don't love the idea of it." -Matt D'Avella

[alejandramoyano]

Thomas, I have been watching your videos since I was a teenager (now in my mid-20s). You have thought me so much and have created an impact in my life that I wouldn't have imagined. From managing my time, creating a calendar to working out consistency you have helped me become the disciplined organized person I am today.

I am a film major with be design experience. I would love to work with you someday.

[Thebreakdownshow]

You are the reason I am able to have a full-time job and a youtube channel. My time management skills have gotten so much better over the years. Thomas ou my man have helped me so much over there years. I love your content please keep it coming.

[irreadings]

I think "Getting Things Done" by David Allen is essential. I have been overwhelmed with tasks time and again, cornered by my part time job and college obligations. This book gave me the tools to organize myself, to know where I'm stepping and to plan ahead so that everything is done on time, so not only I can deal with work and college, but I also end up having time to chat, workout, read, play games, learn another language and other stuff as well.

[arghyachakraborty]

Here are the books ~

1. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People [Stephen Covey]

2. The Productivity Peoject [Chris Bailey] (Honorable mention ~ Atomic Habit - James Clear)

3. Your Money - The Missing Manual [J. D. Roth]

4. A Random Walk Down Wall Street [Burton G. Malkiel]

5. Pivot [Jenny Blake]

6. The Personal MBA [Josh Kaufman]

7. Spark [Dr. John J. Ratey, MD]

Thanks, Thomas. 🌻

[natalietrinidad]

Here's a list of books that I recommend maybe not just for you in your 20's but in general:
Think Again by Adam Grant
Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
Don't Drop The Mic by T.D. Jakes
At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof
Cleaning up Your Mental Mess by Caroline Leaf
The Latte Factor by David Bach
Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt

[JenniferGrayeb]

I was mentioned in Pivot! Great read. “Develop” by Ted Fleming is the career book I’d put in the category for 30s!

[theinternationallanguagees]

Atomic habits is super good . He even mentioned you in chapter 16 or 17

[kushalpsv]

I am still in 20s currently but I would recommend "So good that they cant ignore you - Cal Newport" it gave me the direction I needed to take the current career path I am about to take

[YashBhika]

Loved the yeet part of the video 🤣 Great Video Thomas! I’m in my 20’s rn, and I have to say Atomic Habits has to be my favorite book that I’ve read so far. I’ll have to check out The Personal MBA!

[DemetriPanici]

No joke I was looking for videos of these recently to get a reading list for 2022. Timely video for sure

[Tech-With-Dom]

I highly recomend How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie. I found it very useful with my sales job when I was a Uni student and actually in many aspects of life such as my coursework

[allexusgreen]

I'm starting to read the first book you suggested, and will add all of the other books to my reading list!