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2 Books to Read to start 2018 Off Right

Nick Kastrup
3 min readJan 1, 2018

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Reading is life.

You know this.

Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this.

But what to read?

There are so many good books out there, and sadly we can never read them all.

But we can read a few books — and we should make sure that they’re good books, so let’s look at three books that are worth reading.

48 Laws Of Power

Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power is a masterpiece. The cover in itself is magnificent, and the principles and ideas laid out in the book are nothing short of magnificent. Greene figured out these ideas while watching a lot of them play out in day-to-day life in Hollywood.

Getting rejected on a daily basis, dealing with assholes and being the victim of power-moves, he decided to put them in a book, and this book is the outcome. If you’ve ever wondered how the world works. As in, how it actually works. Read this book.

Using examples from history Greene lays out 48 principles of what works and what doesn’t in a world driven by power, fear and greed — the real world. Greene doesn’t sugarcoat anything. He calls it as he sees it. But the most interesting thing in the book, might be the historical examples. If you’re curious to learn how power has played out…

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Nick Kastrup
Nick Kastrup

Written by Nick Kastrup

Psychology. Personal Development. Persuasion. To the Point.

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