Podcast 291 Top Self Defense and Shooting Books to Read

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Today: Read some of the top self defense and shooting books while you are stuck at home during the lockdown.

Most of us have extra time right now.  I’m no different.  I’m reading extra.  What about you?  Are you reading?  Doing something productive to better yourself during this time or just scrolling through social media mindlessly and endlessly. 

Here is a list of the best books that have helped shape me and change my life.  Check out the list.  Get them on audible, kindle, or dead tree.  These are the kind of books that can make you better.

I challenge you to read or listen to a book off of this list in the next week and not be better.

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Book List:

Top 3 Self Defense Books 

• The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker 
• • Explains that Sixth sense, where it comes from, and how you can develop it.
  • Most importantly not to ignore your gut feelings
• Left of Bang: The Marine Corps’ Hunter Program Can Save Your Life by Patrick Van Horne and Jason A Riley 
• • Notice Normal / Base line of things
  • When things are abnormal react before you get ambushed
• Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro 
• • What people out there are dangerous and how to spot them
  • Gives you practical checklists to know if someone in your life is a danger to you
• Bonus: Jeff Cooper Principles of Personal Defense  $75!
• • The original awareness and mindset book
  • Color Codes for conditions of awareness; this is where it came from

Top 3 Shooting Books

• No Second Place Winners by Bill Jordan 
• • You want to know what fast and training can really do
  • He talks about mindset and a training mindset
• Real World Survival by Walt Rauch 
• • Chapter 2; Other Humans is worth whatever this book costs
  • Real look at fights and what you can do
• Thank God I had a Gun by Chris Bird 
• • Stories of people that actually got into a gun fight and how they won, lost, got lucky, and survived or didn’t
  • Chris interviewed people involved and their family and friends to get the “rest of the story” when it comes to a gun fight
• BONUS: Kill or Get Killed by Rex Applegate  $55
• • What a WWII commando can teach you about winning fights
  • Must read for anyone in military or law enforcement
  • You will learn mind set and what it took to win on some of the most horrific battle fields ever

Life Top 3

• Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod 
• • Win the morning, win the day
  • 5 things you can and should do everyday before you do anything else
• The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
• • How to overcome the hardest challenges in life, Getting moving
  • Plus a lot of other things from her other books are sprinkled in here to help you understand yourself and win at life
• The Richest man in Babylon
• • Want to win with money; change the way you think about it with this list of fables from ancient Babylon
  • Biggest Lesson; pay yourself first before bills or anything else
• BONUS: Over the Top by Zig Ziglar
• • Classic stories of how to win and have a great life told by a master story teller
• Bonus 2: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• • Everything in life is a negotiation
  • Splitting the difference is like wearing 1 black shoe and 1 brown shoe

Top 3 Leadership 

• It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Michale Abrashoff
• • The worst ship in the Navy went to the best ship in the Navy by this commander implementing simple leadership principles
  • If you are a leader anywhere, your family, work, anywhere, this should be mandatory reading.  If every leader was like this, every team would be amazing
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
• • Everything is your fault, everything is under your control, take responsibility and fix it
  • You should own everything in your life, even the things you can’t control, and then make it better
• The Mission, The Men, and ME: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
• • Simplest leadership principle ever
  • This is a short easy read that will help you problem solve anything in your life
• BONUS: The Program: Lessons from Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams by Eric Kapitulik
• • About building culture and teams
  • Set the culture of your work, your family, and yourself   

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Stay Safe,

Ben