4 Must-Read Books for Curious Minds in 2026 🧠

 

Build, Don't Talk: Things You Wish You Were Taught in School | A Real-World Manual for Personal Transformation | Learn Practical Skills – Finance, Networking, Decision Making & More

School taught us specific subjects, like maths and history.
But we weren't taught:
How to sell
Or how to build relationships
Or how to negotiate
Or how to take care of our mental health
Or how to network
Or how to deal with personal finance

These most important situations we face as adults were never discussed with us when we were students. We weren't taught these skills in school, and this makes all the success stories we hear about seem out of reach; it makes us feel dumb. We aren't dumb, we just don't know how to work the system.

Your school taught you how to run in the race; it didn't teach you how to win. And that's what this book is for. To help you win the race. Packed with useful advice gleaned from his own journey as an entrepreneur and content creator, this book by Raj Shamani is a must-read.

Build an Epic Career: From the Bestselling Author of Make Epic Money

From the day we are born, we are told
there is one thing we have to do.
And do it quickly.
Settle!

Finish college. Settle.
Find a job. Settle.
Get married. Settle.
Have kids. Settle.
Buy that house. Settle.

But I know you are scared to settle.
Not because you don’t want to.
You are scared because you don’t know if what
you are settling for is the right thing or not.

I have written this book to help you.
Not to help you settle.
To help you explore.
To build the right mindset for your career.
To help you Build An Epic Career.

I am excited for you :)

Don't Sell Make them Buy : Upgrade Your Selling Skills

A must-read for all those looking to be successful in selling and negotiating. Selling is a skill. Salespeople must learn to be flexible and focus on skill development rather than making sales a step-by-step process or a tool. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to the task, and rigid and scripted interactions are likely to put off the customer. Selling skills need to keep pace with consumerism traits. Salespeople have to understand consumer needs better and build relationships with customers faster, more so in the post-Covid world. In Don’t Sell, Make Them Buy, R. Mukund, an industry expert who has spent over twenty years in sales and customer service training, helps readers understand human interactions from a salesperson’s perspective. Every sales call, he says, is a challenge to test a salesperson’s skills.With his vast range of experience, he provides effective strategies to make selling to customers an enjoyable and easy experience. The extensive case studies and real-life sales situations the author narrates are guaranteed to help readers develop unique methods to sharpen their selling skills.This is an essential guide for all those keen on creating long-lasting relationships with their customers as well as experts looking to upskill their selling and negotiating skills.

Let's Build a Company

Harpreet Grover and Vibhore Goyal met in college and then spent the next decade of their lives building a company before exiting successfully.

One way to tell their story is this: they had a dream, they followed it and, then, through perseverance, they made it come true.

But that's not really the truth. Like everything in life-at least everything worth having-it wasn't that simple. There was blood, sweat and tears, there was loss of capital, loss of friendship and even a loss of faith along the way.

It started with a phone call from Harpreet's mother introducing him to an uncle who wanted some help. Or maybe it started when Vibhore and Harpreet met as roommates in Room 143 at IIT Bombay. What remains true is that soon both had quit their jobs and launched CoCubes. From no money in their bank accounts for eight years after graduating to becoming dollar millionaires two years later in 2016, this is a tale of grit-of a company built in India by two Indian-middle-class-twenty-somethings-turned-entrepreneurs-written in the hope that you can avoid the mistakes they made and learn from what they did right.

This is that story-the story that you don't always hear. But if you want to be an entrepreneur, and you prefer straight talk to sugar-coating, it's one you should read.