Show notes
What if the years that feel like nothing are actually building everything?
Years ago, Andrew spent a summer repairing windshields in a parking lot, sitting under a neon orange tent waiting for cars to pull in. To pass the slow hours, he started bringing books. Sales books, communication books, entrepreneurship books, whatever pulled at him that season. He didn't know it then, but that parking lot was the start of a reading habit that would eventually shape a business, a marriage, and this podcast.
In this episode, Andrew makes the case for reading as one of the highest leverage things you can do with your time, and he means it practically, not as a platitude. He walks through the book that helped save his marriage, Uprooting Anger, and the single question it gave him for handling frustration: would God be angered by this? He breaks down the real reasons people stop reading (time, guilt over unfinished books, and not knowing where to start), and the exact habits that actually work: keeping books everywhere, mixing audiobooks with physical copies, writing in the margins, and screenshotting timestamps that matter. He closes with seven book recommendations that changed how he thinks about relationships, ego, fatherhood, money, and creativity.
🔹 THE PARKING LOT - How a summer job with nothing to do turned into a lifelong habit
🔹 THE ANGER FRAMEWORK - The one question from Uprooting Anger that changed his marriage
🔹 THE REAL REASONS PEOPLE QUIT - Time, guilt, and not knowing where to start
🔹 THE SYSTEM - Practical habits for reading more without carving out extra hours
🔹 THE RECOMMENDATIONS - Seven books, from Dale Carnegie to science fiction, and what each one taught him
This isn't a list of books to feel guilty about not reading. It's a case for why reading consistently, even in small stolen minutes, compounds into a different life over time.
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