You can probably get through life without ever learning more than one way to tie your tie or how to mix a decent Tom Collins. But the more of
those seemingly optional pieces of your personal development you shrug off, the more
dismal the picture gets — can you get through life if you don’t understand the specifics
of finance? If you can’t cook a decent meal? If your girlfriend entertains her friends
with the hilarity of your awkward sexual fumbling? Probably not. It’s a
common theme at AskMen that wasting your life and not doing much of anything is a terrible
mistake, especially when improving yourself is such an incredibly easy thing to do. You
just need to start working on the skills you lack. These 10 books to read before age 30 all address some
aspect of a guy’s personal development, and each one of them either makes a philosophical
point or acts as a handy reference for something you should almost certainly know how to
do by now.
