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Build a Library of Heroic Books 
 
Few things make me happier than meeting someone who has read my books or listened to my audiotapes and 
hearing something like, “I was so moved and inspired after going through your material that I went out and 
bought ten more life improvement books and read them all. And you know what, they have completely 
transformed me.” 
 
I not only write books on life leadership, I am a dedicated student of them. As I mentioned in an earlier 
lesson, I spend countless hours in large bookstores combing the shelves for the latest treasure that will enlighten 
and educate me. I also frequent used – book ships where I have picked up some of my most valuable books for 
only a few dollars (as I write this paragraph, I have a “pre owned” copy of Maxwell Maltz’s classic Psycho 
Cybernetics on my desk, which still bears the sticker price of $ 2.95. also on my desk is a copy of Seneca’s 
Letters from a Stoic, a truly priceless work, which was purchased by my dad for $1.95). 
 
While almost any reading will improve your mind, in a world where there is too much to do, you must 
be selective in the books you read. And so, I suggest you spend much of your time reading what Thoreau called 
“The Heroic Books” – those books that contain “the noblest recorded thoughts of man.” Let your mind drink 
deeply from the works of the great philosophers, such as Epictetus and Confucius. Study the poems of the 
wisest poets, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson and John Keats, and thenovels of Leo Tolstoy, 
Hermann Hesse and the Brontes. Read the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa. 
Connecting with such works for even a few minutes a day will keep you centered on what life is really about 
and will ultimately profoundly affect  your character. Asked in an interview what his biggest regret in life was, 
talk show superstar Larry King replied, “I should have been better rooted in the great books.” 
 
Here are some of the “heroic” books that helped me change my own life and gave me the wisdom and 
inspiration to live more deliberately and completely. If  you read all of them, and act on the lessons contained 
within their pages, you cannot help but improve your circumstances profoundly. 
 
Letters from a Stoic – Seneca 
The Message of a Master, John Mc Donald 
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius 
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 

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University of Success, Og Mandino 
The Magic of Believing, Claude Bristol 
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse 
Psycho – Cybernetics., Maxwell Maltz 
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Joseph Murphy 
As a Man Thinketh, James Allen 
Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 
Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill 
Life is Tremendous, Charlie Tremendous Jones 
 
Through the wonders of technology, you can view a fuller listing of my favorite books at our website located at 
www.robinsharma.com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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