The right book at the right time
In addition to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, here are five more books important to me.
Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Falling Upward, by Fr. Richard Rohr
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
If you read one of them, I hope it’s meaningful for you too.
But it might not be.
Friends have recommended books they described as life-changing. Thoughtful friends I admire. But when I read their book rec, my reaction was… “meh.”
It wasn’t them. Or the book.
It was me. Or me at the wrong time.
Sometimes, we need to pick up a book at the right time. I read Seven Habits for the first time in 2003, and it did nothing for me. When I read it again in 2011, it clicked.
Reading the right book at the wrong time is a nonevent.
But if the right book hits us at the right time, it can nudge us in a new direction. Or even set us on a whole new course.
