7 Brilliant Non Business Books for Entrepreneurs


Bangalore: Every step of an entrepreneur’s life is about learning something new. Either from magazines, blogs, movies or books, an entrepreneur can learn a lot about management and its different styles. At the end of the day it is not just the entrepreneurship or management related books that help but there are several other good reads that can tip an entrepreneur to quick success.

The best part about a book or any story for that matter is the conflict and the fight of the protagonist for the perfect solution out of the conflict that leads him to success.Inc.com compiles a list of seven great books that have several life lessons for every entrepreneur.

Check out the books that motivate the entrepreneurs towards success.

1. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Year: 2004

This non fictional log by Aron Ralston about the 127 hours he spent between a rock and a hard place while he was on a bicycle trip is a grueling account of sacrifices that a man needs to make for the bigger purpose. It is a brilliant account of hardships, pain and redemption of a person from what can be called as a really sticky situation.

Conflict

Having not told any one about his short bicycle trip to a remote are in Utah, Aron finds himself stuck in between a boulder and a huge mountainous wall. Cut out from the world and dying supplies Aron has to find his way out of this physical misery by a great sacrifice or he would lose his life.

Solution

 Aron’s hand is stuck in a completely awkward manner and he is left with some basic mountaineering content in his rug sack. Aron defiantly fights his way out by cutting his hand off of his body with the use of a switch knife after having failed in all his attempts in coming out in a single piece.