What Does Chewy Read? (Chewjitsu Books Part 2)

The other day I got a question on my Instagram about some of the audiobooks I listen to and which ones I like.

I have over a hundred audiobooks in my Audible library and I figured you guys might be interested in listening to some of them. So I might do this as a monthly series and share some of the titles I liked and why I liked them.

Below are the amazon links to an Audible subscription (I’ve been a loyal member since 2009) and links to each book I talk about.

The links are affiliate links. So if you’re interested in the title. Use the link by clicking the book image. It costs you nothing extra and helps support the Youtube channel.

But seriously if you’re interested in audiobooks I can’t recommend audible enough.

Here are the books in no order of significance or importance. . .

The War of Art

This one is a short read or listen and is great for anyone who struggles with just not “feeling” like doing the thing they want to do.

My favorite takeaway is the idea of the force Pressfield calls “resistance.”

Basically, anytime you get ready to do the thing you want, or need, to do you encounter resistance. He talks about how this affected his writing and how he overcame it and how you can too.

Go Wild

This book was co-written by the author of Spark which is an interesting book.

The book goes into detail about some of the theories of human evolution and how our current lifestyle habits affect us.

While I don’t agree with everything in the book, I’m not going to throw the baby out with the bath water. There are several useful lifestyle adjustments that could be useful for people.

1 simple one is to get out in nature more often and the authors explain why this is so valuable for us as humans.

The Motivation Myth

This was a cool look at motivation and how it’s not something you either have or don’t have. Motivation often comes about and continues because of our forward momentum of taking action.

If you’ve ever felt a lack of motivation, as we all have, this book is an interesting listen as to what you can do to become a powerhouse of motivation creation.

A First-Rate Madness

In society if you’re anything but “normal” you get tagged with a mental illness and then are given medication. Which in some cases is necessary. I’m definitely not arguing that.

But this book takes a look at some of the most well known historic figures and identifies the mental illnesses they possessed and how these mental illnesses helped them.

In some cases the author makes a case that the mental illnesses they had made them better suited for the rough times they encountered.

The Sports Gene

This book runs opposite side of the 10,000 hour rule of mastery. It doesn’t say it’s wrong but it says there may be another factor at play.

In the book the author shows examples of athletes who were tailor made for the particular sport they joined.

One interesting example was a kid who had an extraordinarily long achilles tendon which gave him incredible jumping power.

Another that was interesting example was that height alone was not the only important factor for professional basketball players. There were other measurements that were just as, if not more important.

Tribe

Why do we feel so close to those who we’ve experienced tough situations with?

Junger was a journalist in a war zone and wrote his book explaining how soldiers in terrible situations bonded in a way that is not normal in civilian life today.

It even made me think about how we bond doing Brazilian Jiu-jitsu through years of struggling.

Sapiens

The last one I will share today is Sapiens.

The 1st chapter of the book blew me away and kept me listening the whole way.

The 1st chapter talks about how humans are really good at telling stories. Imaginary cooked up stuff that isn’t real. . . it’s all made up.

Green paper is valued as money to exchange for goods. It means something because we imagine it to.

We live in countries and are a part of a nation with imaginary, no real borders. We made the borders.

I won’t go any further, but if you’d like to get a deeper insight into some of the things that made us human, it’s worth a listen or read.

So there’s 7 books to check out. I’ll do another one of these next month and share more. If you have any questions just comment down below.

-Chewy