Shelfie with Arun K Chittilappilly , Managing Director, Wonderla Holidays a) Elon Musk Biography. I have been fascinated by Elon for a while. This is a guy who is disrupting multiple industries: from rockets to solar power, simultaneously. I got this book as a gift and I am hooked. I am yet to finish it but I am really amazed by his tough childhood and how it shaped his thinking about technology of the future.Nir Eyal. This is a book about how companies are building habit-forming technology on our smart phones and the science behind it.I have Kindle installed on my phone and iPad. This way my books are always with me. I am also terrible at keeping books and have lost countless on airplanes over the years.I often think about this passage from ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell : “The idea that ‘excellence at performing a complex task with mastery requires a critical minimum level of practice’ surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number: 10,000 hours! This is true even of people who think of prodigies like Mozart.” The fact that even personalities like Mozart had to put in tremendous effort to become a prodigy was profound. It makes me work harder on things I want to be good at.Arun K Chittilappilly, Managing Director, Wonderla Holidays.‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari has had the profoundest influence on my thinking. The book is on how homo sapiens went from being insignificant apes to the conquerors of the world. The idea that human society is built on stories and that these stories keep changing from time-to-time shook me. Every ‘ism’ like capitalism, nationalism or spiritualism has been imagined by us. It has made me look at life differently and yet take it a bit less seriously.The Elon Musk biography should be made into a movie. I am told it’s already being planned and will be called 'The Man from Tomorrow'. Tom Hardy from ‘Mad Max’ or Leonardo Di Caprio would be ideal as the protagonist.I love cars. So, I spend a lot of time reading car magazines like Autocar and TopGear. I specially love TopGear for their witty writing style. My favourite auto journos are: James Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson, Steve Sutcliffe and Chris Harris