The Mercury Book Club

JAN-JUNE 2022 - Here are our past subscriptions for the first half of the year.

Our favourite? The Psychology of Money is really great if you’re a fan of personal finance, but Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? By was the standout here.

Hello 👋🏻 For those who don’t know, my name’s Marko and I run The Mercury Book Club.

Checking in since we haven’t posted to Instagram in *checks notes* 6 months 😳 Wow, it’s been a minute.

But the thing is, we’ve still been running our book subscription service since!

In fact, we’ve sent out some really great business and personal books over the last 6 months - just check them out. Books on mental health, empowerment, science, personal finance and more.

I know what you’re thinking. The Will Smith book, really? Well, we actually sent it pre-Oscars.

There’s also been quite a bit happening behind the scenes with The Mercury Book Club for Business which you’ll see a bit of soon.

Keep an eye out! Or if we don’t post again, cya in 6 months time.

Take your 2022 reading goal to the next level and commit to reading one book every month with our 12 month subscription.

Head to our website to learn more.

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NOVEMBER: Over November we read Steven Pinker’s latest book - Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.

Every so often we find very interesting non-fiction books on psychology which we’re super excited to share. Rationality is not quite a personal development book, nor business book, but there’s a lot that we can learn.

The book argues that rationality is a key driver of moral and social progress, and it attempts to resolve the apparent conflict between scientific progress and increasing levels of disinformation.

Have you read Rationality?

What are your thoughts on the book?

We recently curated and delivered our first Office Library order!

The Office Library is a new service we launched.

It’s a collection of business and personal development books curated specifically to match ghe learnings goals and reading preferences for an organisation in Sydney, Australia.

Find out more about The Mercury Book Club for Business on our website.

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We’re thrilled to announce our book of the month for October is Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by

This is a book we’ve really been looking forward to feature for quite some time.

It’s a practical book that explores why we get distracted and presents a four-step model to becoming ‘indistractable’

This month we’ll be speaking to Nir Eyal to discuss the book, distraction, traction, key insights and how to live a less distracted life.

We have so much planned for October and can’t wait to reveal our book of the month!

This is a book that we’ve wanted to feature for a while 📚

It’s smart, actionable, inspiring and very relevant 📖

To make it even better, we’ll be interviewing the author on our podcast🎙

Make sure your following to see what it is.

Things we love to read - glad you enjoyed it 🙌🏻

Our three month gift book subscriptions are getting a lot of love recently.

We really enjoy reading (and writing) your inspiring personal messages.

If you’re looking to motivate or inspire your loved ones through books, head to the Book Gift Packs on our website to learn more 📚

Excited to unveil our book for September - Effortless by Greg McKeown.

Effortless is the latest work and follow up book from McKeown’s Essentialism – an international best seller on how to focus your energy on the most important tasks and eliminating what doesn’t matter.

Effortless explores how you can restructure your work to help make essential tasks the easiest to complete.

Have you reach the book? Comment your thoughts below.

Looking for your next read?

Each month we send our subscribers the best business and personal development books - usually new releases or hidden gems 📖

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Australia’s first and only book subscription box dedicated to business and personal development books 📚

Check out our 3 Month Prepay Subscriptions - the perfect way to commit and lock in your reading for the next three months.

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- Is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries still relevant in 2021?

It's one of, if not, the most popular books on startups ever published, but it was released over a decade ago.

A lot can change in a decade. Everyday essentials - such as air fryers, food delivery apps, and Microsoft Teams - didn't exist back in 2011.

So does The Lean Startup still hold up?

We spoke to and other entrepreneurs to find out if it’s still relevant for entrepreneurs in 2021 in our book review of book featured in

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Excited to reveal our book for August is Buy Now, Pay Later: The extraordinary story of AfterPay by James Eyers and Jonathan Shapiro.

Buy Now, Pay Later takes us through the dramatic story, early days and rapid growth of AfterPay.

Whether you love the service or hate it for encouraging Millennials to spend beyond their means, you can’t deny the success of the company.

Interestingly, the timing of the book couldn’t have been more perfect. It was released a day after Square announced its $39b acquisition of AfterPay in early August.

Are you planning on reading Buy Now, Pay Later?

Only 5 days left to subscribe to be part of our August book of the month 📚

Hint: Australian startup success story. It’s also a new release!

We’ve also got a surprise up our sleeve for next month, so be sure to subscribe by 5 August.

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Struggling to read a whole book? Here’s a simple reminder on how easy it can be to read one book per month 📖

10 pages x 30 days.

Since the average book is roughly 300 pages, reading 10 each day for month should do the trick

That’s 15-20 minutes of reading each day, give or take depending on your reading speed.

You can even try setting daily reminders, like this one 😉

Our book for July is Black Box Thinking by

It’s a book that focuses on the relationship between success and learning from failure.

To illustrate the point, Syed compares the airline industry ✈️ with the healthcare industry 🏥. The comparison of how each industry addresses and learns from failure is quite shocking, to say the least.

It’s a fantastic book that uses interesting stores and anecdotes to discuss why, as a society, we need to redefine how we see failure. It easily makes its way into our top 15 business books of all time.

Have you read it? What did you think?

Surviving lockdown 101 - perch up in a comfy spot and read your favourite book 📚

Our pick is the June book of the month, Liftoff by Eric Berger 🚀A very well written, in-depth look at SpaceX.

Handwritten peronsal notes 📝 Our subscriptions are filled with them!

Each month we can’t wait to thank our subscribers and give them a hint about why they might like the book.

We also found out a bunch of you like to use these cards as book marks, and to be honest, we do too 😅

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Fun fact - our book for July is buried amongst this collection of great books 👀

First person to guess it in the comments below will win a free subscription for July.

🚀Liftoff by Eric Beger. It’s the incredible story of Elon Musk and the launch of SpaceX.

It was also our book of the month for June!

Subscribe today to receive our book for July 📚

Have you read it? Comment your thoughts below.

Rise & Grind ☕️

Today is World Environment Day 2021 🌱

Introduced by the in 1974, World Environment Days is celebrated every year on 5 June in an effort to address pressing environmental issues.

Did you know? Every three seconds, the world loses enough forest to cover a football pitch and over the last century we have destroyed half of our wetlands.

It’s shocking. Protecting the environment has never need more important and urgent 🌏

This is why sustainability is one of our core principles. We make sure everything we send out, including our boxes, packaging, and even our tape, is 100% recyclable, 100% compostable or made from recyclable materials 📦

But everyone has a role to play in sustainability and ecosystem restoration.

So this World Environment Day we want to inspire you.

Think about the impact you make on the environment. Think about what you consume, how you travel and your eco footprint.

Think about what you can do to protect the environment.

By the time you’ve read this - the world has lost enough forest to cover more than 13 football fields.

What will you do?

Celebrating 6 months of The Mercury Book Club 🎉

Over the last six months we’ve delivered our subscribers a selection of great business book, life-changing personal development books, and some of our favourite books of all time 📚

Looking forward to bringing you many more great books!

How did we do? Comment below

Oh and if you’re wondering, it’s a total of 2,032 pages all up!

Check out Captain FI's review of The Mercury Book Club.

"If you’re looking for a way to get ahead in business, the Mercury Book Club is worth checking out. They send subscribers one hardcover or paperback trade publication each month with free shipping anywhere in Australia and their prices start at $35 per month."

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Our book of the month for May is No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer 📚

Started in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, Netflix has grown from DVD mail-order service to a global media company with over 12,135 employees worldwide.

Traditionally, as companies grow larger, their culture tends to adopt more rules and processes.

But, this wasn’t the case for Netflix. No Rules Rules explores Netflix’s company culture and how the company deliberately enforces less restrictions on its employees, allowing them to be more effective in their roles.

Have you read it? Comment your thoughts below.

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Limitless by (our book for April) is packed with interesting insights and many key learnings.

Here are our top three:
 
🍅The pomodoro technique – a method to balance focus and deliberate breaks. Focus for 25 minutes, followed by a 5 minute break. This technique helps with focus and retention.

🙅🏻‍♂️Mistakes aren’t failures – a great point that really resonated with us is that mistakes don’t mean failure. As Kwik perfectly puts it, “It’s not how we make mistakes, but how we deal with them that defines us.”
 
🤫Silence your inner critic – we all have one. An inner critic who tells us we’re not good enough, enforcing limiting beliefs. It’s important to silence your inner critic by identifying and reframe your limiting beliefs.
 
Have you read the book? What are your key takeaways?
 

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Excited to reveal our book of the month is Limitless by

It’s a personal development book, through and through, which aims to teach the reader how to learn faster, improve memory and help with decision making.

Have you read it?

Our co-founder Marko Zitko recently spoke with Balance The Grind ( ) about juggling a full-time role, achieving a work-life balance, and his favourite book of all time.

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Did you know? Our subscription boxes are 100% recyclable ♻️

Each and every box comes packed information on how to properly recycle, reuse and compost our packaging 🌱

Learn more about our commitment to sustainability in our About Us - link in bio.

How do you take notes while reading? 📝A strategy we’ve found works particularly well is small post-it notes as markers throughout the book for key quotes and sections.

Highlighters can work well too, and keeping a notebook close is a must.

What’s your strategy?

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - the book that started it all. Head to our website to discover why this book is so important to us.

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Our book for April will make you change your life 📚Well, some parts of it. It’s a practical, personal development book filled with techniques, habits, inspiration and motivation.

Only 7 days left to subscribe to receive the book for April.

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Did you know? Every book box we send comes with its very own hand-written personal note from the team.

We’ve heard it also doubles up as a nice bookmark📚

We’re excited to reveal our book for March is No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by

This book has easily made its way into our list of favourite business books of this year.

In No Filter, award-winning Bloomberg journalist Sarah Frier uncovers the never-before told story of Instagram. It’s a well-written and heavily researched book that sheds light on the origin, the rapid growth and the controversies of Instagram.

Ultimately, it’s a story about entrepreneurship, technology, success, culture, problem solving and business.

Have you read No Filter?

How to spend a rainy day in Sydney 🌧

What do these eight great books have in common?

They’re the books which will make up our new range of gift packs📚

Coming soon.