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Every book Dominick Quartuccio recommended on podcasts
Dominick Quartuccio is a speaker, author, and coach who has appeared on the ChooseFI podcast to share insights on personal growth, human performance, and overcoming life's obstacles. Throughout these episodes, he has recommended several transformative books to listeners. Quartuccio recommended Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil as a profound cautionary tale about drift, and Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning as an essential resource for finding purpose, hope, and understanding stimulus and response in extremely difficult circumstances. To help listeners overcome fear and the internal resistance to putting themselves out there, he recommended Steven Pressfield's The War of Art. For insights into human performance and flow states, he highlighted Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal. Quartuccio also recommended Adam Alter's Irresistible to illustrate the addictive nature of modern technology, and Hal Elrod's The Miracle Morning for establishing optimal morning routines. Finally, he brought up Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist to highlight how people can hold contradictory feelings internally at the same time.
Books recommended by Dominick Quartuccio
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Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a classic self-help guide focused on wealth creation, personal achievement, and the psychological principles of success.
Discussed“if you guys are Think and Grow Rich fans like I'm sure a lot of your listeners are Think and Grow Rich is one of the best selling”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Recommended“one of the greatest insights that I've ever come across was by a man named Victor Frankel and Victor Frankel is the author of man search for meaning one of the best best books you could ever read about finding your purpose and meaning in life”
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Outwitting the devil
Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill is a profound cautionary tale exploring the concept of drift and the pitfalls of failing to take control of one's life.
Recommended“and it was called outwitting the devil now this book if you don't know Napoleon Hill was basically big during the depressioner”
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The Soul of Money
The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist and Teresa Barker explores humanity's deep-seated emotional and psychological relationship with currency, arguing that money can be transformed into a conscious channel for creating a better world.
Recommended“Here's a book that I read, The Soul of Money, which is the greatest book I've ever read in terms of my emotional relationship with money.”
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist is a widely acclaimed collection of essays by Roxane Gay that explores modern feminism, culture, and the complex realities of holding contradictory beliefs in a flawed world.
Recommended“there's a brilliant author her name is Roxanne gay in her book bad feminist remember she wrote this quote that I always I always reference she says we are a mass of contradictions”
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Irresistible
Irresistible by Adam Alter is an exploration of modern technological addiction, examining the business models and design strategies that corporations use to keep users permanently hooked on screens, applications, and digital games.
Recommended“so there's an unbelievable book that I read called irresistible the rise of addictive technology and The Business of keeping us hooked and it's by Adam alter who's a professor at NYU”
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Stealing Fire
Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal examines how extreme athletes, Navy SEALs, and Silicon Valley executives harness altered states of consciousness to radically boost human performance and achieve flow.
Recommended“for me it was a book called stealing Fire by Stephen Cutler and Jamie deal”
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a popular self-help guide advocating for minimalist organization and discarding household items that fail to bring personal joy.
Recommended“so it's time to do like what Marie kondo does best right the life-changing magic of tidying up”
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The Miracle Morning
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod is a self-help guide that outlines a transformative daily routine designed to optimize personal productivity, mindset, and overall well-being through six specific practices known as life savers.
Recommended“there's a great book called Miracle morning by Hal Elrod and he has six different techniques that you can unpack about like how you could create an optimal state for your morning”
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's The War of Art serves as a profound guide for creatives, entrepreneurs, and thinkers seeking to understand and conquer the psychological barriers that hinder productivity and inspiration.
Recommended“and one of the great books to get around that is the war of art by Stephen pressfield and he talks about this big concept of resistance”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a widely acclaimed guide on habit formation, personal development, and systems design.
Discussed“James Clear talks about this all the time in atomic habits the one decision you can make that eliminates thousands of future decisions”
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a guide to cultivating undistracted focus and achieving peak productivity in an increasingly noisy world.
Discussed“and I haven't read the book but I've heard enough people talk about it share stories with me about it's called Deep work by Cal Newport”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a highly influential lifestyle design manual that challenges conventional career paths and encourages readers to automate, delegate, and escape the traditional nine-to-five grind.
Discussed“and then over time as I started having an Awakening and started reading books and you know Tim Ferriss for our work week really started to challenge the way I was looking at my life and outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill and then thinking we're rich it really got me thinking about like wow I realize when I leave”
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Books Dominick Quartuccio wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| 033 | Design Your Future | Dominick Quartuccio | ChooseFI | 2023-06-06 | 5 |
| 096 | Drift | Dominick Quartuccio | ChooseFI | 2023-05-31 | 6 |
| 185 | Adapting to the New Normal with Dominick Quartuccio | ChooseFI | 2023-05-24 | 3 |
| 270 | Designing your Year for 2021 | Dominick Quartuccio | ChooseFI | 2023-02-20 | 2 |
| Your Bold Move for 2023 | Dominick Quartuccio | ChooseFI | 2023-01-09 | 4 |
| 355 | Making Bold Moves | ChooseFI | 2023-01-02 | 2 |
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and that's why I ended up writing the book about design your future which is an intentionality”
“and I wrote a book called design your future on purpose leadership which are really all about how to live lives of your own design”
“bold move for 2017 was to write a book design your future which I know many of your listeners have read”