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Ask HN: What are your non-technical non-fiction recommended reads?
Interested in seeing what books have helped people improve their lives or learn useful skills.
For me, 'Driven to Distraction' was a helpful book, though limited to ADHD. 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman has been helpful too. Logging three things I'm grateful for each day led to one of the happiest months of my life.
- eddiezane 11y agoHow to Win Friends and Influence People.
- omilu 11y agoDo people really like this book?? I thought it was cliche, dated and infomercially. Truly am perplexed when i see it recommended.
- taprun 11y agoMy suggestion is The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. It's a very, very quick read.
- xiaoma 11y agoThe Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell. It's a universal story, with the major features of every major world mythology catalogued and included within.
- storgendibal 11y agoBusiness Adventures by John Brooks The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike
- brudgers 11y agoCritique of Pure Reason, Immanual Kant. It provided the solution which abstracted away the issues with empirical reasoning as the basis for fact and made possible modern scientific enquiry. The abstraction is so powerful that science can ignore the fact that it is a distraction and rebrand itself as independent science rather than the natural philosophy branch of philosophy.
- FussYou 11y agoThink and grow rich by napolean hill (read his golden rules as well), psycho cybernetics by maxwell maltz, Tao Teching by Lao Tsu (written centuries ago, it will give you deep insights on leadership), power of now by eckhart tolle, jonathan livingston seagull by richard bach, and of course the alchemist by paulo coelho!
- ddv 11y agoSurely You're Joking Mr. Feynman. Feynman's curiosity and drive to learn new things is inspiring to me.