Bill Gates is giving you a list of five books to read while you are taking a break.
Gates releases lists of the best books he has read each year, along with seasonal recommendations for holiday books and beach reads.
Gates has published a list of his favorite books and new releases for the holiday season in 2022.
Gates says a 1960s sci-fi classic that helped spark his childhood friendship with Microsoft co- founder Paul Allen, and a book on tennis that Gates first read in the 1970s helped him learn not to obsess over mistakes at work.
Each of his selections has been placed in a Little Free Library around the world.
Gates has a reading list for the holidays.
Gates has a special place in his mind for this film.
Gates wrote that he and Allen talked about sci-fi when they met. I thought I had read most of it, but Paul did a better job than I did.
The story of a human who was raised on Mars is one of Gates favorite sci-fi books. A young man travels to a future Earth where he struggles to understand the concepts of war and religion.
Gates said that Heinlein's book correctly predicted some aspects of the future, including "hippie culture" and waterbeds.
Gates said that he uses an obviously fictional setting to ask profound questions about human nature.
Bono's memoir is the best memoir by a rock star, Gates said.
The billionaire and the rocker have been friends for a long time. Climate change and global health are areas in which they work together on philanthropic efforts.
Gates praised the book's behind-the-scenes look at how U2 created "some of their most iconic songs," and what has kept Bono and his bandmates close for more than 40 years.
They share the same beliefs. Gates wrote that all four of them are passionate about fighting poverty and inequity in the world and that they are also aligned on maintaining their integrity as artists.
Gates was blown away by the work by the Pulitzer Prize winning historian.
Several of the men who served in Lincoln's first Cabinet were against him in the 1860 presidential election.
Lincoln has a lot of insights about himself that leaders can learn from, according to Gates.
He said that he was thinking about the book because it felt relevant in the future. There are similarities between the current moment and the 1860s, when the nation was dealing with violent insurrection, difficult questions about race, and ideological differences between states and regions.
A guide to the mental side of peak performance is what Gallwey's 1974 book is about.
Gates first read the book more than four decades ago, and has since read it multiple times, writing that he still gifts it to friends because of its profound advice.
A tennis coach wrote about how a player's state of mind affects their performance on the court as much as their athletic ability Gates said that the insights have helped him in his career, especially focusing on constructive criticism.
It is too easy for most of us to slip into self-criticism, which makes it harder to perform. Gates said that we need to learn from our mistakes.
Gates has admitted that in Microsoft's early days he was an intense boss due to his high standards for himself and employees.
Gates regretted that some of the approach was over the top.
You can see samples of each entry in the periodic table at Gates' office in Seattle.
A 2000 history of chemistry written by an academic named Paul Strathern is one of the things the billionaire is interested in.
The first version of the periodic table was created by a Russian chemist. Gates said it was the best book he had ever read.
He said that the periodic table reminded him of how one discovery can lead to many others. The properties on that chart are what make the universe complex. We can make chips because we understand atoms, and we can make software because we know how atoms work. Everything goes back to the beginning.
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