The Best Books I Read in 2024

[00:02] 2024, and I'll tell you right now that I 'm not the kind of guy who's been reading since adolescence. Since childhood, I started the habit of reading, really started the habit of reading, really reading every day, this year... So, there are

[00:18] that I want to show you, and I'll also say that I'm not just going to talk about the books, I'm mainly going to talk about how I replaced the habit of reading with watching videos. Because the knowledge I

[00:35] acquired for a long time was only through videos, YouTube videos, courses, you know? So I have a lot of ease in watching videos, but I had a lot of difficulty in reading books. And I'll start with this one,

[00:50] books. And I'll start with this one, the name of the book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. This book here, not that it matters much, but it has pages that you read very quickly, very quickly, because it's a story of a

[01:05] young man, Santiago, who is Spanish, and he goes in search of his personal legend, he goes in search of a treasure. And because the alchemist... closer to the end the alchemist... closer to the end of the book, he meets the alchemist, and

[01:19] this alchemist... It teaches him many invaluable things, it teaches him things about God, about... it's even written here that when you want something, the whole when you want something, the whole universe inspires you to achieve

[01:32] Paulo Coelho, I think he's one of the greatest Brazilian writers, but this book is very easy to read, right? It's a fictional story, I believe, but you learn a lot about life, how life

[01:47] works in a practical way, right? There are some more theoretical parts, like, if I can say, beyond our thoughts, our experience, but I don't think it's very good, okay? I don't think it's one of the best books out

[02:03] there, but I enjoyed reading it. Especially since I read it very quickly, and something I've noticed over time is that I read books quickly a book I'm going to show you here, which I 'll show you now, since it's this one... in the

[02:18] blink of an eye, I bought this book, look, I didn't finish The Alchemist, I finished it in the blink of an eye. It's a book about a guy who... Where is he? He already did...

[02:30] about a guy who... Where is he? He already did... He made several really awesome movies for the time, right? He won three Oscars for Apocalypse, The Patient, and he also worked on, I think, The Godfather. But there's a chapter here

[02:45] where he talks about editing, so I bought this book to learn more about editing. But it's more for people who, I don't know, really like cinema or sometimes even make films. I don't, I've even made some

[02:58] cinematic side, because I'm very curious, but it's a more technical book, right? One thing I learned from this book is that we have to edit videos standing up. That's right, he says that most of the arts, when we

[03:12] n't remember the examples he gave, but I think he mentioned people do it standing up, and there are other examples too. But he says that when he edited standing up, because he, the editor, right? This guy here is the editor,

[03:26] literally the editor of the films, right? And he talks about all his experiences, it's finish reading it because... Time's Up... I ended up losing interest because it's more for those who are more technically inclined in the area, but anyway, let's go. I already

[03:40] talked about The Alchemist, which is the one I read, the one with the eyes and the limes. I didn't finish it, I'll put it next to it here. I have this book that I just read, right? I didn't finish it because, look, I thought it was cool that at the end of the book he mentions

[03:56] another book of his, I think it's a chapter from another book of his, which is A New World: The Awakening of a New Consciousness, which is by Ecker, I don't know Power of Now. So I bought this

[04:10] book, I thought it was really cool, really cool. It's a book that might seem boring, but it's really awesome. What I mean by that is that he words that you, man, you won't necessarily understand the words,

[04:26] necessarily understand the words, but in the end, in short, he makes you understand. It's really cool, man. It's even good for explaining that, you know, the

[04:38] thoughts we have in our heads, normally these thoughts aren't us, they're like our ego, they're things. What we project in our heads... I'm trying to explain in a practical way how

[04:51] the book works. Okay, but it's very good. So, when we're stopped and you start observing your thoughts, you realize that you're either thinking about the future or the

[05:06] future or the past. Start observing that. And we're never in the present, which is what matters. Focusing on the present is what will really make us project into the future. How can I

[05:21] happens, man, this happened to me a lot. I used to project the future, projecting cash flow, things that would happen in the future instead of focusing on the present. Because if I focused on the present, that future is

[05:35] happen or not. But the only way to focus on the future is by focusing on the present, being present. And there are some things, another book by him, which is this one here, "Practicing

[05:51] the Power of Now," because I found this "The Power of Now" kind of theoretical, you know? It does n't have many practices, but there are practices you can actually do, like taking a

[06:05] things in the environment, like, the era is here, she's licking herself, I'm listening to her listening to the birds, I'm listening to the cars, I'm listening to the wind, you focusing cars, I'm listening to the wind, you focusing now is liberating, it's liberating,

[06:18] I can't explain it because I can't explain it so well because it's a I'll probably have to read it several times, but the essence is that we're not in the present moment, our head is n't in the present moment, it's very difficult, our

[06:32] head is a whirlwind of words and thoughts and we can't words and thoughts and we can't escape it, it's tough, but just for you, man, this here, for those who are YouTubers, it really releases

[06:46] anxiety, it's incredible. Another thing that releases anxiety is boxing, but I'll make another video about that, okay? Being able to do it now is very good, very good. I advise you to read it, but understand

[06:59] that you might find it boring after a while, okay? Let me see, I even forget to say it. I was never the reading guy, I was the... It's like I used to consume content, you know? I watched videos instead of reading. Nowadays I read what I

[07:13] want, like I'm reading... I'll show you what I'm reading... let's say this book here, Essentialism. I've known about this book for a long time because instead of reading it, I watched videos of people who read it and shared a lot of

[07:27] knowledge about it. So I really wanted to read this because I always had a lot of problems with what this book says, which is about saying yes and no. It 's not even a matter of saying yes to others;

[07:40] but I end up accepting too many projects, spending too much of my time on other things. And today, thanks to the Creator, I'm focused on very few

[07:52] things, you know? Today I value my time more. There was something that happened a lot that this book talks about... grow, I don't know, on YouTube, let's say my channel hits 1

[08:05] 1 million subscribers, a lot of... Opportunities, a lot of proposals, a lot of people wanting me to work with them. This happens, but we have to understand what we really want to do, you

[08:18] understand? Because if we're too greedy—that's the word—we'll able to do anything, you understand? Today I have my focuses, which are few, and it's going very well. For example, one of my focuses is boxing, going to the gym, reading books

[08:33] every day, being a teacher, teaching people, having students at the practical and have my little projects. That's already a lot, isn't it? But look, in the last two or three weeks,

[08:47] lot of things to do, and I had to refuse thanks to essentialism, which really focuses on what we need to do. We don't end up wanting to do many, many, many things. So, summing it up,

[09:00] essentialism is good for you who can't do a few things and start to scatter your time with many other things. It sucks, man, it sucks, it doesn't work. This many other things. It sucks, man, it sucks, it doesn't work. This guy... it was one

[09:13] truth, I'm the kind of guy who likes to create, you know, to have ideas, and then I start focusing on that idea, and then I kind of lose the enthusiasm to stay focused on the

[09:25] say, "Wow, I had a new idea, I'm going to do something new, I'm going to create a new YouTube channel." That's how it is. You probably have that thought, you think, sometimes you get a channel right, you've been posting videos for 90 days, then you find another

[09:38] channel, another idea to do another project, and you go there and start putting your energy into doing that other project instead of staying on this project that you've been working on for 90 days. Well, we have to

[09:50] know our limitations, we also need to know how to delegate tasks and so on, but I believe that most of the people who produce especially here on YouTube, have many ideas and want to put them all into

[10:03] many ideas and want to put them all into practice, and it doesn't work, it doesn't work, it sucks, I know. Maybe when that's the focus, you focus on the little projects, I don't know, two channels, and then after I don't know how much time... When I've really

[10:16] reaped the rewards of these channels, then I'll think about creating another channel. It a new idea, but when I do create this new idea, I'll have much more ease in creating it, even in delegating and continuing to focus on

[10:31] channels, so I create two more channels and it goes from there. So, essentialism is very good, it's a shame that I already knew a lot about this book without reading it. It's incredible, thanks to the YouTube videos I've already watched, but I read

[10:45] it just to internalize it more, so I could you need to read this book." Even if you know what's written in this book, another book I read, this one here is "Self- Conception," a book

[11:01] I bought at an event by Lucas Ataí and Bruna Bruna Ataí. They talk about the Bible, especially the passage of Moses in Egypt. I don't remember many

[11:14] things in this book. I thought it was good, but for my level of knowledge—not that I'm a PhD in the Bible—it's not that I'm a PhD in the Bible. Well, I found it simpler, you know? Kind of shallower in itself. But I found it interesting. I remember very well what's in

[11:30] this book, but look, what God says about you... but it was one of the books I read, so I'll also leave here a book that I read that took me a long time to read, to tell the truth, it was this one, Mastery, a very good book, but very tiring

[11:42] to read because it has many stories, many stories, stories, stories like that. And some people like it, I'm not a big fan. Like, I like to read stories like The Alchemist, it's a

[11:54] story, but here in Mastery, it's stories of several people, you know? It's a lot of stories and it ends up getting kind of boring, you know? It's more than 300 pages, man, it's a lot, so it gets boring. But it 's very good for those who are good at

[12:10] you don't even know you're good at something, but you discover in this book that you're good at that thing and you have to focus on that thing. It's cool, it's very good. I had several, several, several, several insights reading this book,

[12:22] several insights reading this book, Mastery, an incredible book, very good, Mastery, an incredible book, very good, tiring, it took me a long time to read it. But that way you can get new insights into your

[12:34] book I thought, "Man, what am I good at?" I kept asking myself, "What am I good at? Am I good at managing people? Am I good at YouTube? What am I good at?" You know? But then I discovered that I'm good

[12:47] at many things, to tell you the truth. But it's cool, the examples of people who became masters in those things, you know? It tells how people, I don't know, Einstein, became Einstein, or many other people, you know? And

[13:00] you think, "Wow, man, people really need to work very, very hard to really become masters at something." And then it talks about the pursuit of knowledge because when you enter into, into, into, how can I say, into

[13:14] learning, learning something, and then knowledge that kind of takes you away from that main knowledge, you know? It's cool, it's cool. I can't

[13:27] explain very well what's in these books because it's really a lot, okay? It's a lot, but I guarantee you that it's a book that will take you a long time to read everything at once because there's so much to

[13:39] absorb. I even put some notes, little bullet points here, so bullet points here, so

[13:51] if I want to read it again, I can read those bullet points, you know? And we don't need to finish reading books. I used to think, "Oh Gabriel, you never finish reading books, you're useless, you can't be

[14:05] we really don't need to read books we're not interested in, and we can lose interest over time. But I've read all these books, except for this one you so far, which I haven't finished reading yet. But that's it. That changed my mind.

[14:20] people talking about books, and you really don't need to finish reading a book. And a cool thing is that you can go straight to the point sometimes. You're reading here, "Oh, I think here, wo n't the chapters be here?" You

[14:35] have the chapters, you can really... uh... grab them. Read the chapters and say, "Wow, read this chapter," not necessarily following the chronological order of the book. I do n't tested this yet, but it's something you can do. I recommend

[14:51] recommend reading all the books I've read. I think my main recommendation isn't even to read all the books I've read, but to read every day. So the focus is n't on reading books to the end, but on

[15:06] reading every day, a real reading habit. Like, before recording this video, I There are two books I have to finish reading, which are part of my reading routine. I read 10 pages. I could have read

[15:20] this morning, so I decided to read at least 10 pages, which was the introduction of the book, to record this video for you. But the first thing I do in my day is read, of course. I wake up, brush my teeth,

[15:33] make my coffee, and then I go there and... I read. This is my routine, and it's working very well for me. I like to read outside, in the backyard, listening to the like it when I wake up in the middle of the night, you know, because I wake up very early and it's raining.

[15:46] night, you know, because I wake up very early and it's raining. Wow, and I read, listening in the rain, it Wow, and I read, listening in the rain, it

[16:05] good thanks to the habit. Another book I read, this one here, I learned a lot about, because it's something I really like, which is about about relationships? Because everyone has relationships, and I believe that

[16:18] nowadays are with their own marriages, dating relationships, and so on. And " Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," by John Grey, is a great book. So you can understand a little bit, because this book here, the

[16:32] several other authors who also talk about relationships, but to understand one... I've read a little bit about how the minds of men and books I've read, this one is the one I've absorbed the most

[16:47] knowledge from. It's really stuck in my head, like understanding how men work. There were things I didn't know about men. This is a very good example: men like to go to their caves, not that they like them, they have to go

[17:00] like to isolate themselves. What is a cave? Isolation? Like, this is my cave, When a man has a problem, he goes to his cave to try to solve it. He isolates himself to try to solve his problem, and that's just how

[17:14] he is. Now, women... when they have a problem, they don't like to talk about it to someone else, but they don't like to. This is what's interesting: men think they're relating

[17:27] relating to other women. So when a man has a problem, the woman goes and wants him to talk about it, but he doesn't want to talk about it; alone in his cave. Now, when a woman has a problem—

[17:40] I mean, when a woman comes and starts talking about her problem, that's starts talking about her problem, that's talking about her problem, venting. But what does a man do? He

[17:53] So when another man is talking to him, he goes and gives a solution because if a man is talking to me about a problem, it's because he wants a solution. woman comes and unloads a bunch of problems, I don't know, about work, various

[18:05] man who doesn't quite understand how a woman's mind works, goes and starts giving her solutions, and that's where everything goes wrong. You understand, like these language of women? Like, if a woman comes to talk to me about a bunch of things and

[18:18] I start giving her solutions, she won't like it, it will only get worse, it will only cause more problems, she'll get more irritated because she doesn't want a solution, she just wants to one thing that's in this book here, I thought it was brilliant. It might be

[18:32] But I didn't know that when I found out, I said, "Wow, there's also the thing about the elastic band, that man is like an elastic band." I say this because it was really the book from which I acquired the most knowledge. There's so much to talk about, it's that man is like an elastic band,

[18:46] like you're going to... Paying attention to a man—I don't know if that's the right word—but you he stretches, stretches, stretches, stretches, like an elastic band, you know? He does man is here," and he moves away. Over time, he becomes

[18:59] away. Over time, he becomes more and more distant, which is normal. But then you release the elastic band, and he comes back, and everything happens. This happens with men, don't you remember? Right? Because there's also the issue of women's "waves," which

[19:11] is cool. I really like these examples where she's on a wave, and every wave breaks, right? Like, there are highs and lows, and with women, it's always like that. She's unstable, normal. Like, a woman is doing well, she's doing great, she's

[19:25] woman is doing well, she's doing great, she's flying high, and suddenly she starts to fall. Like, she gets woman to be like that, it's normal. It's biological, you know, there's nowhere to run. But what often happens when a woman is about to fall, when she's about to

[19:39] have that fall, which is also the bottom of the well, as he talks about in the book, is that man tries to avoid that fall. He tries to improve, tries to help in some way to avoid the breaking of that wave, to avoid the woman reaching that point.

[19:54] really has to hit rock bottom. She really has to let that wave break, she really has to fall, you understand, to then get up. It's very not understand much, but it's a

[20:09] great book, even for you who aren't dating, because you'll understand how it women work, and you too, and for women, you'll understand how you work and how men work. You might not connect

[20:23] much with this book because men and women have their poles, woman who is in the masculine pole and you might be a man connect with many things here, that might be it, the problem is more complex.

[20:37] Okay, I think that's it, I'm going to talk now about a controversial book. It's not controversial at all, but this one was a book I received from Thiago Shutz, which is called "Pillars of Reality." Thiago Shutz, people know him more for his camp, right? It's a

[20:50] very good book, it's a book that wakes people up. Men, especially with ill- intentioned women, yes, because there are many more ill-intentioned women out there, and sometimes not even intentionally, but

[21:04] because the system has corrupted women's minds much more. It sucks, poor women. For me, they are very much victims, victims, me, they are very much victims, victims, in quotes, of society. But there are

[21:18] basic, okay, it's a basic book, but it's very quick to read. I like books like that, where the chapters are like The Alchemist. The Alchemist is quick to read pages, you read it, then you go to another chapter and you say, "Wow, I've already finished

[21:31] reading a chapter!" You have this feeling of progress, and that gives you So the case of The Alchemist is the same, right? Like, you read very quickly. Now there are three more books here. There's this one here, "

[21:47] I'm terrible at English: Everything You Need to Know to Boost Your Learning Once and For All" by Karina Fragoso, and this year I started studying English and then I read this book here to, like, I read a book to know... How to study

[22:04] English... I think it's better... Before I start studying English, I see the best way to study English. I even put the little dots here so I can go back and read. It's cool. Look, I didn't start studying by form but by use, and then

[22:20] with these notions and minds and a certain amount of practice. This is exercises to fill in gaps and formulate sentences with these structures, gradually internalizing them to the point of never having to think about them again.

[22:33] Communication situations... I didn't understand anything, you have to read more, but that's how it is. It's very good for those who want to learn English, and there are other books in the same vein. I watched a video on YouTube, like, " books that teach you English," in

[22:46] sense, and they are books that give you an introduction on how to start reading. And really, each one has a different type, each person will learn English in a different way. For me, it works like this: another book, I already showed here, is "

[23:00] Practicing Power Now," which I don't know if it 's good because I think it only takes some words, like it's as if it selected some things from "Power Now" and brought them to this book as if... This is what I'm

[23:14] understanding as a summary, because there are many identical words and phrases from the other book. So I don't know, I'll finish reading it here to conclude. There's also this book was one of the first books I received, which is Metanoia. It's a

[23:28] Brazilian book that's basically about a businessman who has his company, but his family is a mess, everything is a mess, and then he crashes into a guy's car in traffic on Paulista Avenue, that's why I say it's Brazilian. And then he meets

[23:43] a guy who changes his whole perspective, another businessman understands, and that's Metanoia, that crazy change, you know? The guy has several fixed, ingrained thoughts in his head, and then this other

[23:56] businessman goes on and on and on and on showing him that everything he thinks is wrong. It's a little story, I haven't finished reading it yet. I received this book a long time ago, I haven't finished reading it, and I might finish it this year. And there's

[24:10] the book I'm currently reading, I started it today, which is Atomic Habits. What's the name, James Clear? Oh, I know how to pronounce that name, man, like

[24:23] about this book, and also The Power of Habit. So there might be a lot of things here that I already know, but it doesn't matter. I believe it's a very good book, and I'm starting to read it mainly because I believe it

[24:36] 's not just for me, right? But I have some mistakes in my routine, some bad habits that I have that I need to change. I want to be the kind of person who doesn't have bad habits, only good habits, right? But

[24:49] read this book to reach more conclusions, okay? I believe I've gone through all the books I've read... oh no, I haven't. I read this Bible here that I've had for a long time, I got it from my mother. This one

[25:04] here is also bigger, but this one that I got, this one is cool, it's not a Bible, it's a Torah. For those who don't know what a Torah is, it's the first five books of the Bible, right? Genesis, then

[25:17] Exodus, I think. Ecclesiastes... I don't know... you have to see here if I said it wrong, sorry, but it's really cool because it's the teachings of... it's not just the first five books, it's the first five books plus some

[25:30] first five books plus some rabbinical explanations, it's just knowledge... how can I say... I 'm not Jewish, you understand, and I don't necessarily agree with 100% of what the Jews say, but I think it's

[25:44] interesting for us to have a different view of the Bible, right? With more interesting, I haven't finished reading it yet because it takes a long time, but it's good, it's a different book. I liked the cover, it has a

[26:03] the books... Let me see if I forgot to mention something here... uh, that's it. Oh, I watch videos of people who read mainly the Bible, so I believe I've read the Bible more in YouTube videos than actually

[26:17] opening the Bible and reading it myself because... because, I don't know, I'm watching a video and a verse appears, then the person reads the verse and starts talking about that verse. I think it's really cool, it works very, very well for me, guys. If you... If

[26:29] comment below. And for those who made it to the end, I had an idea, okay? Let's see if it makes sense. I'm thinking, not. I was thinking of starting a book club.

[26:43] Basically, I would open a membership area here on the YouTube channel, which exclusive content that I would bring to you. What would this book club be? I would take some of these books and read them to you. I don't want to read

[26:59] the whole thing, I would read some chapters. Why wouldn't I read the whole thing? Because, man, it's a lot of work to read aloud, right? I would read aloud to you. And I do take a whole book and read it to you without you buying it, I don't know, but

[27:17] I would take, like, some book here and read the chapters that I find most interesting, you know? So that's the idea. I would create an area

[27:29] here on this channel that would be the membership club, with a monthly fee for you to join. There would be exclusive content there, right? I would have myself reading these books aloud, and I'm even reading aloud thinking about that too, besides teaching, right?

[27:45] I'm thinking about reading aloud so that when I have my children or when I have to I can read aloud to them. So I'm already practicing that, and I thought, "Wow, I could make videos or audios just reading books and posting them on YouTube." So I

[28:00] had this idea. If you're interested, if you liked the membership club, I don't know, interested. I might do it. Okay, but don't forget to comment below with the books you read in 2024. I hope you all... I'm not a

[28:13] 'm not a reading guy, I'm becoming that guy, you know? I haven't read many books in my life, this year was the year I read the most books, I managed to put the habit of

[28:26] reading into my life, and guys, it's very good.