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created: "2025-11-01"
lastUpdated: "2025-11-01T00:00:00"
contextDate: "2025-11-01"
type: "MOC"
status: "active"
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# 📚 Books MOC

> My Audible library organized for action, learning, and growth.

## 📊 Library Stats

**Total Books**: 1,095
**Finished**: 53 (4.8%)
**In Progress**: 42 (3.8%)
**Not Started**: 1,000 (91.3%)

**Top Categories**:
- Business & Careers: 410 books (37%)
- Health & Wellness: 158 books (14%)
- Literature & Fiction: 129 books (12%)
- Biographies & Memoirs: 101 books (9%)

**Data Source**: Audible Library Export
**Last Updated**: November 1, 2025

📊 **[[📊 My Audible Library Dashboard]]** - Full stats and strategic reading approach

🌌 **[[🌌 Quantum Physics & Astronomy Fascination]]** - Core interest area for calm, perspective, and wonder

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## 🌌 Quantum Physics & Astronomy (Core Interest)

**Purpose**: Understanding scale, perspective, wonder. Used for meditation and calm.

**Current Focus:**
- 🎧 **Sleepy Scientist** (YouTube) - Soothing quantum physics explanations
- 🎧 The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics (Audible) - Quantum physics deep dive

**Books in Library (9 total):**
- **The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics** - Sean Carroll, The Great Courses
- **Something Deeply Hidden** - Sean Carroll (quantum mechanics interpretation)
- **What Is Real?** - Adam Becker (history of quantum debate)
- **The Quantum Labyrinth** - Paul Halpern (Feynman & Wheeler)
- **Pale Blue Dot** - Carl Sagan (cosmos perspective)
- **Alien Earths** - Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger (exoplanets)
- **The Source** - Tara Swart MD PhD (neuroscience connection)

**Why This Matters:**
> "The idea that we are so infinitesimal and the sheer vastness of the universe fascinate me, and I often reflect on that and meditate."

**Origin:** 6th grade astronomy course at local college for kids - lifelong fascination

**Glass Pod Meditation:** Visualizing floating in tiny glass pod beside asteroid, looking at vast stars = incredibly soothing for stress/sleep

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## 🎯 High-Priority Books (To Read/Finish)

These are books I've added but haven't started or finished yet:

### Personal Development & Performance
- [[Built to Last]] - Jim Collins (Good to Great series)
- [[Ultralearning]] - Scott H. Young (mastering hard skills)
- [[The Art of Impossible]] - Steven Kotler (peak performance)
- [[Peak Mind]] - Amishi P. Jha (focus in 12 min/day)
- [[The Confident Mind]] - Dr. Nate Zinsser (battle-tested performance)
- [[Effortless]] - Greg McKeown (make what matters easier)

### Business & Strategy
- [[Good Strategy/Bad Strategy]] - Richard Rumelt
- [[The Cold Start Problem]] - Andrew Chen (network effects)
- [[The Right It]] - Alberto Savoia (why ideas fail)
- [[The Messy Middle]] - Scott Belsky (bold ventures)

### Health & Wellness
- [[Fast This Way]] - Dave Asprey (fasting, inflammation)
- [[The Genius Life]] - Max Lugavere (mind & body)
- [[Life in the Fasting Lane]] - Dr. Jason Fung
- [[The Body]] - Bill Bryson (guide for occupants)

### Mindset & Psychology
- [[Mindset]] - Carol Dweck (psychology of success)
- [[How to Do the Work]] - Dr. Nicole LePera (healing patterns)
- [[Stop Self-Sabotage]] - Judy Ho PhD
- [[Attached]] - Amir Levine (attachment science)

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## ✅ Finished Books

Books I've completed from the library:

- [[Fall and Rise]] - Mitchell Zuckoff (9/11 story) ⭐ Finished

*(More to be added as I track completion)*

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## 📂 Books by Category

### Business & Leadership
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Management & Leadership  
- Strategic Planning
- Marketing & Sales

### Personal Development
- Personal Success
- Motivation & Self-Improvement
- Decision-Making & Problem Solving
- Time Management
- Communication & Social Skills

### Health & Wellness
- Fitness & Nutrition
- Psychology & Mental Health
- Meditation & Mindfulness
- Sleep & Recovery

### Science & Technology
- Biological Sciences
- Computer Science
- Physics & Quantum Mechanics
- Future Studies

### Money & Finance
- Personal Finance
- Economics
- Investing

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## 🏷️ Books by Theme

### High Performance & Peak State
- The Art of Impossible
- Peak Mind
- The Confident Mind
- The Talent Code
- Ultralearning

### Focus & Productivity
- Effortless
- Deep Work (if in library)
- Peak Mind
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

### Health Optimization
- Fast This Way
- The Genius Life
- Life in the Fasting Lane
- The Body
- Cultured

### Mindset & Mental Models
- Mindset
- Stop Self-Sabotage
- How to Do the Work
- The Source

### Business & Entrepreneurship
- Built to Last
- The Cold Start Problem
- The Right It
- The Messy Middle
- How to Get Rich

### Leadership & Influence
- Unstoppable Teams
- Human Hacking
- Be Exceptional
- Connect

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## 🔗 Integration with My System

### Morning Routine Books
Books that support my morning mindset and energy:
- Peak Mind (12-minute practice)
- The Source (science of the brain)
- Mindset (growth mindset)

### Workout/Walking Books
Books to listen to during exercise:
- Biographies & stories
- Science & exploration
- Lighter personal development

### Focus Time Books
Books for deep learning during focused work:
- Business strategy
- Technical topics
- Complex frameworks

### Evening Wind-Down Books
Books for reflection and rest:
- Fiction (The Giver of Stars, etc.)
- Philosophy & spirituality
- Gentle personal development

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## 📈 Tracking My Reading

### Current Reading Queue
1. *(Add current book here)*
2. *(Next up)*
3. *(After that)*

### Reading Goals
- [ ] Finish 1 personal development book per month
- [ ] Complete 1 business/strategy book per month
- [ ] Read 1 health/science book per quarter
- [ ] Enjoy 1 fiction book per quarter

### Completion Tracking
Track in Beeminder: `reading` goal
- Log completion in daily notes
- Link to book notes with key insights
- Connect learnings to active projects

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## 🎯 Action Items from Books

### Currently Implementing
*(Add practices or systems you're implementing from books)*

### Want to Implement
*(Add things you want to try from books you've read)*

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## 📝 Book Notes Template

When I finish a book or capture key insights, create a note with:
- 3-5 key takeaways
- Immediate actions to implement
- Connection to my current goals/projects
- Favorite quotes or concepts
- Rating & recommendation

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## 🔍 Search & Filter

**View Raw Library Data**: [[library.tsv]]

**Search by**:
- Author name
- Genre/category
- Runtime length
- Date added
- Completion status

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## 💡 Next Actions

- [ ] Review high-priority books and pick next to start
- [ ] Create book notes for recently finished books
- [ ] Set up Beeminder goal for reading consistency
- [ ] Connect book insights to active projects
- [ ] Schedule reading time in Daily Command Center

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*This MOC helps me leverage my library as a tool for growth, not just a collection.*

