Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, The Rembrandt Affair, A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring, and Portrait of a Spy were the four best books on Amazon that I read in June.
Each of these books is excellent own unique way. Of these best books on Amazon, my favorite was A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring. The lessons coach John Wooden helps readers translate from there to their everyday life is beyond powerful.
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Best Books on Amazon
Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success
One of the many important things legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden taught is Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success. This pyramid is his explanation of how to be great by starting with one block at a time. These blocks represent principles that you build on top of one another. You start with the building blocks and work your way up the pyramid. By building a strong foundation, you are setting your life up for success. This pyramid can not only be used in basketball but also life. Each of us has the opportunity to be great. By learning from the blocks in the pyramid, we can achieve our goals by following a process.
The Rembrandt Affair
Retiring in Cothe Cornwall, the legendary Israeli spy’s career seems to be over in The Rembrandt Affair. That’s until his friend and London art Julian Julian Isherwood comes into the fold. In to the city of Glastonbury, England, an art restorer is murdered while restoring a Rembrandt. As tends to be the case, Allon agrees to pursue those responsible for the murder. The trail leads AllEnglandm England to Amsterdam to Buenos and finally to Lake Geneva, Switzerland. There, Allon finds a master thief and powerful Swiss billionaire are in on the heist. Only Allon can find out why the Rembrandt was stolen.
A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring
When you think of hall of fame basketball coaches, UCLA coach John Wooden is at the top of the list. In A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring, Wooden shows how any person can be a mentor and mentor others. Even someone as decorated as Wooden, who lived into his 90s, still found individuals to be red. Seriously? 90+ years old and you are still wanting mentors. How can we not appreciate someone l? like this. An incredible example of a life-long learner.
Portrait of a Spy
When you hear “pleasant weekend” and Gabriel Allon, the two never go hand in hand. In Portrait of a Spy, legendary Israeli spy Allon is in London to authenticate a Titian painting. However, bombings in Copenhagen and Paris throw off Allon’s plans. As Allon absorbs the bombing news, he unsuccessfully attempts to stop a bombing in London. Chaos ensues. After returning to his house in Cornwall, England, the CIA summons Allon to Langley, Virginia. There, Allon learns that a Yemeni cleric is the one behind the attacks. The only way to stop this cleric is to recruit someone, with ties to the terrorist network, to penetrate the terrorist network. Allon attempts to take down the network for good by recruiting a wealthy Saudi Arabian heiress based in Paris with familial ties to the terrorist network.
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