--- title: '5 Books That Changed My Life' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=mW9uzLaERpo' video_id: 'mW9uzLaERpo' date: 2026-08-02 duration_sec: 422 --- # 5 Books That Changed My Life > Source: [5 Books That Changed My Life](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mW9uzLaERpo) ## Summary In this video, the creator shares five books that have had a significant impact on their professional and personal life, covering topics from personal finance and career paths to life philosophy and financial independence. ### Key Points - **Introduction** [00:00] — The video will cover five impactful books, both professionally and personally. - **Book 1: I Will Teach You To Be Rich** [00:12] — Ramit Sethi's book covers budgeting, saving, and introduction to investing, essential basics not taught in school. It helped the creator build good financial habits early in their career. - **Book 2: The Pathless Path** [01:09] — Paul Millard's book challenges the default path of school, good grades, and a secure job. It emphasizes that there is no such thing as a secure job and encourages readers to think about what they truly want out of life. - **Book 3: Tuesdays with Morrie** [02:20] — Mitch Albom's book is about a man who reconnects with his dying college professor, Morrie, and learns life lessons about fulfillment and happiness, contrasting with the protagonist's high-earning but unfulfilling life. - **Book 4: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant** [03:01] — A collection of Naval Ravikant's wisdom on wealth, health, and happiness. Highlights the concept of 'permissionless leverage'—using code and media to create wealth without needing capital or permission. - **Book 5: Your Money or Your Life** [04:38] — By Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, this book introduces the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early). It emphasizes aligning spending with values and calculating true hourly wage by accounting for all work-related costs. - **Conclusion** [06:32] — The creator encourages reading and note-taking to retain knowledge, and asks viewers to like and subscribe. ### Conclusion The video highlights five books that offer practical advice on personal finance, career fulfillment, and life philosophy, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own paths and consider unconventional approaches to work and money. ## Transcript So in this video, I'm gonna be covering the five books that have really impacted me, both professionally and personally throughout my career. So the first book I wanna cover is Ramit Sethi's, I Will Teach You To Be Rich. developer and started owning money. all of the basics that you really should have been taught at school. So things like budgeting, saving, as well as an introduction to investing as. impact on my finances over the years. 22, then I wouldn't be in as good a financial position as I am now. some good financial habits. loads of money and then within a couple of years they're broke again. to manage their money properly. So getting a good grip of how to do that is really important when you're young. But it's really good book and it is worth reading, especially if you have So the next book I wanna cover is Paul Millard's, the Pathless Path. Now, I read this book last year after I quit my job to do something different. It's one of these books that I find myself coming back to again and again whenever And I want to get a perspective from someone who's actually done it themselves. So we go to school, we get good grades, we get a good job, and 70. And it's also the path that's traditionally been a pretty There really is no such thing as a secure job, and many of us are By default, we're following it on autopilot. You know, we go to work every day and we try and get through the week so because Monday's just around the. And working at least 40 hours a week for 40 to 50 years, and then only doing what you want to do with your life at the weekends is a pretty depressing Most people don't really stop to think what they want out of life and So if you're thinking about taking a different career path, maybe involve being changing your desk for eight hours a day, then this Paul also has a podcast called The Pathless Path, and it's really He regularly interviews people that have taken the leap and are doing Now, the next book that's really impacted me is Mitch Albums Tuesdays with Mauri. who he finds out is dying of a. He got good grades. He graduated and got a great job earning lots and lots of money. He hardly saw his wife cuz he was working all the time. But he took the time out every Tuesday to go and visit Mauri and really have a In the book more, he gives a lot of advice about how to have a fulfilling life and It's a really thought provoking book and it's worth adding to your. So the next book on my list is this one, which is The Almanac of Naval Ravikant. I read this book a couple of years ago when it came out. It's not actually written by Nav Ravikant, but it's a collection of all of his tweets and interviews and all these other wise words that he said over the years. entrepreneur and investor. He founded Angel List as well as being a first time investor in companies He really knows what he's talking about when it comes to generating wealth, and in the book he covers everything from wealth, health, as well as living a happy life. It's actually my most highlighted book on read wise. It's practically the whole book. about permissionless leverage. So leverage, in this case, he's talking about code and media, so code as in people and media such as building an. In the past, leverage was really focused around capital leverage, so large So leveraging other people's time, but really with permissionless leverage, you You can create an application, you can create a YouTube channel. I won't spoil any more of it for you. You can probably read it over a weekend, but it's really worth reading. It really helps with the algorithm and helps this video be found. by Vicki Robin and Joe Domingo. There's a bit of a theme in most of the books that I've picked out. It's really about taking an unconventional path in life, and really this one is So the ultimate goal of having so much money that you don't have to work at all. come across this book before. The fire in this case stands for financial independence, retire Early. And in some cases, reducing your expenses so you can get there sooner. retire as early as 30, especially those that are highly paid software For example, one of the things that I really like about this book is it spending your money on and whether it matches with your values that you have. actual hourly rate is to take in account of things like the cost of your commute, might buy because you can't be bothered to cook cause you haven't got energy. When you add them all up, you'll probably find that your Audi rate is a This can be a bit of an eye opener for a lot of people. the city, they might have find that they'll be better off taking a job Now, it did used to be a big advocate for financial independence, but really to get there you need like 25 times your annual expenses, which is a huge sum of money. 750,000 invested so that you can live off that money and have it not Now, obviously if you're on multiple six figures and you're Then you're gonna get there quite quickly. gonna take a long longer than that. money and take a leap of faith and do something a bit different in my life. One of the things I love about reading books is you never know when you're Half the problem is remembering what you've read, and this If you're interested about taking notes on how to organize them, you Don't forget to like and subscribe, and I'll see you in the next video.