Reading list
The books that shaped Michael.
Michael Black’s five favourite books of all time: on mindset, grit, fear, legacy and choosing your own reality.
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01 · 1952
The Power of Positive Thinking
“Belief comes before achievement.”
One of the best-selling self-help books ever written. Peale argues that confidence, optimism and a disciplined mind are practical tools, and that the way you talk to yourself shapes what you are able to do.
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02 · 2016
Shoe Dog
“Build it before anyone believes in it.”
Nike’s co-founder tells the raw, early story of the company, from selling running shoes out of his car to near-bankruptcy and back. It is a founder’s memoir about risk, grit and the people who stayed with him when it was hard.
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03 · Written 1938 · Published 2011
Outwitting the Devil
“Fear and drifting are the real enemies.”
Written after Think and Grow Rich but kept unpublished for more than seventy years, this is Hill’s imagined interview with the Devil. It exposes fear, procrastination and “drifting” through life as the forces that hold people back.
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04
38 Letters from John D. Rockefeller to His Son
“Wealth is built on character.”
A collection of letters of advice, attributed to Rockefeller and written as if to his son, on work, opportunity, money, responsibility and leaving a legacy. The letters’ authorship is debated by historians; their lessons are why readers keep returning to them.
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05 · 2004
Reality Transurfing
“Choose your reality, don’t fight it.”
A best-seller first published in Russian, Zeland’s series offers a model for pursuing goals with less struggle. It covers intention, letting go of excess importance, and moving with life rather than against it.
And one more
Michael’s own book: Millionaire Tutor.
Part memoir, part blueprint: the real story of building Success Tutoring from a spare room, and the system behind it.
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