Recommended resources

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Books

Self improvement

25 Stories I would tell my Younger Self: An inspirational and motivational blueprint on how to take smart shortcuts in life to achieve fast and groundbreaking success

Great life lessons by Dr. Julian Hosp from whom I have learnt a lot.

Philosophy

Siddhartha

A New Earth

Meditations

You’re it (Alan Watts)

Man’s Search for Meaning

The Power of Now

Self improvement

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

12 Rules for Life

Atomic Habits

Tribe of Mentors

Tools of Titans

Rejection Proof

Business

The War of Art

4-Hour Workweek

Steve Jobs

Cashvertising

Health

Healing without Freud or Prozac

Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief

The best book when it comes to self massaging. It is crazy to think that for many of the issues described here doctors often encourage you to undergo an operation when instead you could have resolved the underlying issue and the pain relatively easy.

Relationship

No more Mr. Nice Guy

The Way of the Superior Man

Others

The Book of Disquiet

Flowers for Algernon

Martin Eden

Der Steppenwolf

Woodcutters

Gates of Fire

The Alchemist

Thinking Fast and Slow

Homo Deus

YouTube

Fitness

Omar Isuf

Omar is definitely one of the most hones fitness YouTubers out there. He is not promising unrealistic results, talks about his own mistakes and shows what is possible if you keep training naturally for many years

Elliot Hulse

Fitness is not the only thing Elliott talks about but it is where he started. Combining different training styles his approach is mostly about building an athletic body with the necessary strength. Anybody interested in strong man training, powerlifting, and bodybuilding will find useful information on his channel.

Jason Blaha

Jason stands for no-nonsense training advice. Many might not like his style but from a scientific standpoint you can’t really find anything wrong with his training which is focused on full-body sessions with heavy compound exercises. He always comes back to the basics also regarding nutrition and supplementation or the lack thereof.

Business

Alex Becker

Recently Alex Becker hit a nerve with his thoughts on experience on dopamine detox. Other than that I really like his minimalism which allows him to focus on his long term goals. He is someone who not only talks about making money but also has a track record with his companies to back him up.

Investments

Dr. Julian Hosp

Julian is one of the mentors I have learnt the most from. He is primarily known to his German speaking audience but also releases some of his investment, business and mindset content in English.

Relationship

RSD Tyler on both his own channel and the free tour channel

Tyler aka Owen Cook was focused manly on dating advice for the last fifteen years or so. Recently he and his team have switched more to self help content. Unfortunately many of the old videos are no longer accessible on YouTube. Nevertheless especially latest videos are some of his best and apply to many aspects of life including dating.

RSD Julien

The same goes for Owen’s partner in crime Julien who now also mainly focuses on non dating advice.

Todd V

The former RSD member Todd started his own channel and still releases dating content regularly. He is definitely one of the people who will not tell you what sounds or feels good, but instead what actually works.

Self improvement

Elliott Hulse

Elliott’s second channel covers life advice, mainly for young guys. He answers questions of his followers about different aspects of life. His unique approach to solving problems is definitely motivating and worth watching.

Tim Ferriss

The 80/20 master best known for the “4-Hour Workweek” regularly shares his insights about productivity and also hosts a podcast.

Captain Sinbad

Well balanced channel which alternates between entertaining videos and practical life advice.

Philosophy

Jordan Peterson

Way before writing “12 Rules for Life” Jordan become well known on YouTube by publishing his university lectures and sharing lessons learned from psychology and philosophy.

Einzelgänger

Great channel about different kind of philosophies and what we can learn from them for day to day life.