{"id":2006,"date":"2010-12-27T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T04:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2010-12-27T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T04:37:15","slug":"my-top-5-reads-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"My top 5 reads of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of actual books read this year. Here are the top 5 I read in terms of personal impact:<\/p>\n

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\n4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
\nEnjoyable and eye-opening read. Worth checking it out. Digging into his new book The 4-Hour Body<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
\nA different historical and enlightening read. I was amazed at how interconnected many of the great men of science have been throughout history.<\/p>\n

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\nBorn to Run by Christopher McDougall
\nAn addictive read. Made me ditch my orthotics.<\/p>\n

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\nSwitch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
\nAnother great book with useful strategies by the Heath brothers.<\/p>\n

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\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
\nRe-read for the first time since high school and it has proven to be have biggest impact on me in 2010. A classic worth revisiting in the upcoming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of actual books read this year. Here are the top 5 I read in terms of personal impact: 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss Enjoyable and eye-opening read. Worth checking it out. Digging into his new book The 4-Hour Body. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reads"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}