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Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?
Which books do you wish read when you were younger?
Alternatively:
Which books that you read while younger do you wish you'd followed more closely / taken to heart more?
- oceanghost 9y agoZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It appeals to a certain type of thinker. For me, it was for confirmation that there was another individual in the universe whose brain worked like mine. This alone was a revelation, even aside from the book's profundity.
- ahdroit 9y agothere is something to be said for finding the right book at the right time.
- HiroshiSan 9y ago^ this. I read Paul Graham's, What You'll Wish You'd Known when I was in high school and it was like "okay great I get it" and only now after reading it again recently has it become "wow, now I feel it." And for me it seems to boil down to feeling the message rather than knowing it. Someone can tell you to work out and stay in shape, but sometimes it takes hitting a personal low to make a permanent change.
- ahdroit 9y agothe art of living - Epictetus, Sharon Lebell
- alok-g 9y agoDale Carnegie, How to win friends and influence people. The book had opened my mind on how people react to criticism. Human Relationships, Steve Duck. Relationships are so important in life, and not at all obvious for everyone, yet we are all left to ourselves on them.
- singularity2001 9y agoI wish I could live more by the insights of this book. also given its content the real title should be "How to win friends and manipulate people."
- fdw 9y agoWhile it is certainly true on some level, I think Carnegie chose not to use "manipulate" for a reason: It's not so much about getting them to do what you want, but to see the issue from all sides and choose a path that is beneficial to you both. He also repeatedly stresses honesty ("honest appreciation"). So even if there is some amount of manipulation, it's still mainly about seeing everybody as a person and working together.
- MegaLeon 9y agoHere's a chart I found useful for translating the precepts of the book into a more actionable form: https://labs.thesocietea.org/carnegie-chart/ https://labs.thesocietea.org/carnegie-chart/
- karlbooklover 9y agoThe book the 48 laws of power is about manipulation which I don't like. I consider Carnegie's book, The 7 habits of highly effective people excellent books to learn how to help other people through win-win situations.
- AlexAmee 9y agoFrom my standpoint, this is one of the most overrated books of all times. I stopped reading it somewhere in the middle because it did not tell me anything new at all. I understand we are all different and have our strengths and weaknesses, what is totally obvious to you is probably a new concept to me.
- reboog711 9y agoWhich book are referring to? Human Relationships or the Dale Carnegie book?
- neya 9y agoRight off the bat, here you go: 1. The 7 habits of highly successful people (Stephen Covey) 2. The Miracle Morning (Hal Elrod) 3. Business Model Generation (Aelxander Osterwalder) 4. The Art Of War (Sun Tzu) 5. The E-myth, why most businesses don't work and what to do about it (Michel Gerber) 6. Made In Japan (Founder of Sony, Akio Morita) 7. How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie) Probably I missed a few more, but I think these ones are a good start.
- reboog711 9y ago+1 for the E-myth, a must read for anyone who wants to run a business.
- dahx4Eev 9y agoIs it relevant to read Made In Japan now? And, what're the key takeaways?
- filipoi 9y agoWhy "The Art Of War"? - I've read it with pleasure but tbh I've never known how to use those thought...
- nik_0_0 9y agoJust to plus one - also really enjoyed "The Miracle Morning". Great way to think about structuring your day, and a short read. Earlier may or may not help, but should be read at a time when you are striving to improve yourself, but maybe not finding the success you wish.
- caseysoftware 9y agoTrust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holliday Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion I read both a couple years ago and was fascinated (and annoyed) by how many of the little tricks and tactics I recognized in sales, in the news, and really in every day life. Reading them didn't make me immune to any of it but now I'm aware and try to think more critically about what I see and hear.
- sogen 9y agoanother Cialdini fan! You're going to love "How to lie with statistics"
- sndean 9y agoA Short History of Nearly Everything I read it at ~18 and can easily draw a direct line between it and going into research, but I wish I had read it a few years earlier and became interested in science sooner. Maybe I would've actually done my homework in high school.
- chrisco255 9y agoI agree. This book changed my perspective. Up until I read this book, I largely accepted the stories told by my family and religion. It wasn't until I learned the painstaking work and effort that went into scientific research that I began to trust it. This book does a great job of describing some of science's greatest discoveries and the people behind the effort to uncover them. It's also lightweight and sort of fun.
- kevlar1818 9y agoGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity by David Allen. Whether as a recent graduate toiling with life decisions or as a recent graduate student juggling life, work, and school, I read this book about 2 to 5 years too late.
- slip_shoe 9y agoIt's funny how western (probably American) HNers are mentioning the "how to succeed everywhere" books all over this thread. This is silly, methinks. I would mildly suggest those people to take a bit wider look at where they live and why they consider those books important to be read as early as possible. For me, I don't regret about not having read anything, I'd rather regret about having read too much and nothing substantial at all at the same time. But regardless of the fact that I've read a ton of bulls*t books and virtually nothing fundamental, I don't see a need to catch up. No haste = no waste. We can live very productive, moral and full lives without reading anything.
- monksy 9y agoWestern civilization is based on merit and it is based on being very competitive. (It's true in your mates, your social standing, your financial situation, etc) That's the reason for the improvement books.
- protoplant 9y agoIs it merit based? I would say it's capital based.
- monksy 9y agoCapital generally being a measure of how people evaluate you, yes.
- vanillaboy 9y agoNope, take a look at Japanese audiobook stores e.g. https://www.febe.jp/ https://www.febe.jp/, they're chock-full of self-improvement garbage. In fact out of 5 new books that come out 3-4 are of the "Get People to Like You in 10 Simple Steps" type.
- BoiledCabbage 9y ago> Western civilization is based on merit This is one of the larger falsehoods I've read in a while. It's based on money, connections, favors, historical precedent and power. And it's not the only one.
- maroonblazer 9y ago"The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dorner. Sort of an applied "Heuristics and Biases". "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright. It unlocked the reasons why my impulses and aspirations were at such odds. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin". Very practical advice for how to better oneself. Caveat: Reading them earlier is one thing. Appreciating them is another.
- sixhobbits 9y agoThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt It changed the way I think and most of my existing ideas.
- boulos 9y agoThis book didn’t exist until that long ago, so it doesn’t seem like a fair choice for “I wish I had read this when I was younger”.
- aaachilless 9y agoIn my opinion the goal of a thread like this isn't to share missed opportunities but to highlight potential opportunities for readers today.
- sixhobbits 9y agoI was wondering about that, but even if I'd read it in 2012 I would have benefited more than when I finally found it. And seeing as this is hypothetical, why not "books I wish I had read if they had existed earlier"..
- RobAtticus 9y agoI'll second this one. Very easy to read and flows really well in my opinion. He builds up ideas very naturally with just the right balance of academic and colloquial.
- abtinf 9y agoAtlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
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- thescribe 9y agoGodel, Escher, Bach. I hated math for most of high-school, but I read this book between semesters and it changed my career choice.
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- iammiles 9y agoMeditations. Its passages have become a sort of canon for my life.
- walterbell 9y agoNine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty. Timeless and immortal: http://www.conceptualfiction.com/nine_hundred_grandmothers.html http://www.conceptualfiction.com/nine_hundred_grandmothers.h... Anything on vision therapy/improvement, e.g. https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improvement-by-hormetism/ https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improveme...
- schizoidboy 9y agoThe Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. Debatable but opened up a new perspective for me.
- adjkant 9y agoCould you elaborate on the new perspective for you? What was the previous one? I was intrigued by the title and looked up the book and found this review, and it seems to bring up some good points. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/102880724?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/102880724?book_show_ac...
- schizoidboy 9y agoI felt drowned in pessimism from media, culture, and family for most of my life up to that point, and this book opened up an optimistic perspective on global prosperity, health, violence, education, work, inequality, environment, etc. It makes rational arguments for this general optimism rather than hand-wavey optimism. I think it can be summarized as: "Things aren't so bad for the average human and are improving in most of the important ways. We've hit on patterns (science, markets, etc.) that seem to work, and we should continue to work at making things even better."
- adjkant 9y agoThanks, appreciate the detail :) I very much agree with that philosophy and would consider myself a rational optimist if I had to label, hence the intrigue. While optimism is good, I think it needs to be paired with equally important perspective. As that review points out, the general trend doesn't mean we can't go backward for long periods of time in multiple areas. That optimism needs to be paired with a push for improvement over complacency, which I think is the easy comfort optimism can give. Sorry if this is preaching to the choir, but hopefully someone gains value out of this. Edited because I just trailed off in the middle of a thought on my first go round.
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- tzhenghao 9y agoGrit by Angela Duckworth [1]. I wish I read this back in my high school days. It's a different thing learning hard work and grit from a book than the constant "nagging" I get from my parents. The latter came in on my left ear and went out the right ear almost instantly. I was a lazy kid back then despite getting relatively good grades in school. I've learned to become grittier on my current day job (there's always something to fight for, especially as part of a startup riddled with uncertainties), but I kinda wish I could go back and pick this book up if it was available/released back then. Would have helped me better understand college applications too. [1] - http://a.co/gJnmxfR http://a.co/gJnmxfR
- sngz 9y agodoes her book talk down on you? every interview I've heard her on turned me off from wanting to even look at her book. also from her interview she cherry picks a lot of examples.
- ArslanAtajanov 9y ago"Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins "Deep Work" by Cal Newport "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond
- jrs95 9y ago+1 for The Selfish Gene, one of the best books I've read. If you have any interest in the process of evolution/natural selection, I highly recommend it. It's not as "political" or explicitly atheistic as some of Dawkins' more recent work either, so people who have a negative opinion of that sort of thing shouldn't be turned off by his name being on it.
- whatyoucantsay 9y agoIt really is sad how many people would use a man's political leanings in the 2010s to dismiss the scientific book that made him famous in the 1970s.
- gumby 9y agoHow to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. How much of what you read is really true?
- hodl 9y ago50%
- numbsafari 9y agoI wish I hadn’t ever read Ayn Rand’s books. They were a waste of time and a distraction for too many years. I’ll say this though, I’m glad I grew up and I’m glad that when I got to the end of the Fountainhead I had already figured out what was wrong with her. If not for that, I wouldn’t have recovered.
- adamnemecek 9y agoI’ve heard many people say that.
- sidcool 9y agoI would like to know what you thought was wrong.
- slap_shot 9y agoI’ve heard this, too. For those of us, like myself, that don’t realistically expect to read her books, what was wrong with her and why do you regret reading them?
- adjkant 9y agoThis links to a lot of good stuff: https://nintil.com/2016/04/09/why-ayn-rand-is-not-and-ought-not-be-taken-seriously/ https://nintil.com/2016/04/09/why-ayn-rand-is-not-and-ought-... As a philosophy / ethics person who has studied and read a lot of philosophers and never her, even from basic argument structures of hers there are fallacies galore that show no sign of being addressed. I think the view is a magnet towards selfish people looking for justification of their views. I think her arguments, when viewed objectively (ironically), have the effect mentioned in the top level comment of pushing people away from the pitfall conclusions she makes.
- sidcool 9y agoAn interesting counter argument: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/13/ayn-rand-was-not-a-defender-of-the-rich/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
- yay_cloud2 9y agoCount of Monte Cristo and East of Eden. I'm happy to have had the chance to read these books twice (first in my early 20s, again in my late 30s), but I only wish I could compare my experiences with a first reading during my early teens or pre-teen years.
- aklemm 9y agoEast of Eden...so good.
- adjkant 9y agoSlaughterhouse-Five, Galapagos, Sirens of Titan Basically, any Kurt Vonnegut book that isn't Cat's Cradle (good but overrated). Bias note: I'm still young, but these shaped me easily.
- l33tbro 9y ago'Impro' by Keith Jonstone. It appears, superficially, to be a handbook about the art of improvisation in theatre. But it's actually a book packed with wisdom about the ontology of creativity, the facilitation of learning, and how most human interaction is an interplay of "statua transactions". The chapter on status is alone worth reading, and something I wish I were aware of as a younger man.
- starpilot 9y agoI was so stubborn that any book, even one that foretold my exact future, would not have gotten through to me. Even now I struggle to impart any pearls of wisdom into my daily life.
- pizza 9y agoThe Divided Self + The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise + The Politics of the Family - all by RD Laing Civilization and its Discontents - Freud Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher Gateless Gate - Mu-men? Very old Chinese mystical text that somehow resonated w me considerably.. Neuromancer - William Gibson Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson Inherent Vice (currently reading and enjoying a lot! - loved the movie so much I got the book but I think I enjoy the book way more even) - Thomas Pynchon
- stewbrew 9y agoI read many books on philosophy, sociology, and tons of literature when I was young. I wish I would have read Algebra 1-3, Analysis 1-2, Mathematical Statistics etc.
- defen 9y agoMoby Dick I'm halfway through it. I'd held off on reading it for years just due to its reputation but I'm finding it incredibly enjoyable, humorous, and in many ways not at all what I was expecting.
- clarkmoody 9y agoI read it earlier in life, and I don't think I got as much out of it as if I'd read it later.
- graeme 9y agoThe Four Hour Workweek. It showed me: 1. How to make a business without "experience" 2. A model of how to make an automated business Changed my life and led me to create a mostly automated business that is still going seven years on. Note: this book often rubs people the wrong way, and requires caveats. The four hours refers to maintenance work, in my interpretation. I could maintain my business on four hours. But, it would gradually atrophy. So, I grow it. But, with the liberty to take a lof of time off, when I want. For those allergic to Tim Ferriss, Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling is an excellent read. But, the four hour week was the book that hit me like a ton of bricks and changed the course of my life. The business, if anyone is curious: https://lsathacks.com https://lsathacks.com
- bengkoang 9y agoWhat it hit me the most is about what the worst thing that could happen if you try your venture, it blows my mind back then and it really boost my confidence. I'm guessing it's related to the author stoic perspective
- graeme 9y agoI did the worst case scenario exercise he gave, exactly as described. Then I went on a long walk, decided to leave law school and try business. I still have the paper I used. Briefly, the exercise was: 1. What's the worst case outcome of trying 2. What steps can you take to mitigate it? In my own case, it was taking a year off law school, and using up some savings + possibly needing to get a job before starting law school again. Not a giant risk. (Not zero, either, but having it quantified really helped) The other part of the exercise was measuring the worst case against potential gain. In my case, it was permanent, long run freedom. Which, I got! So, well worth the risk.
- outlace 9y ago"The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch
- donatj 9y agoAnthem by Ayn Rand. It’s really short and a tad trite but really made me rethink things. Still the only book I have read in a single sitting. The Art of UNIX Programming. 10 years ago me really could have used it, feel like I wasted way too much time figuring out things this would have explained. Honestly I don’t know if I had been ready to hear it though.
- kmacrules 9y agoCulture of Critique
- chrissnell 9y agoIn Fifty Years, We'll All Be Chicks, by Adam Carolla. I should have read fifteen years ago, but it hadn't been written yet.
- ternaryoperator 9y agoThe Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It's astonishing to get useful, relevant advice on how to conduct yourself across two millenia. I recommend the translation by Gregory Hays, which removes the academic feel of other translations, and so makes them relevant and, at least in my case, actionable.
- jonathansorum 9y agoCouldn't agree more. This book truly deserves the "timeless" epithet. A book to revisit every few years at minimum.
- kuro-kuris 9y agoFor anyone who finds Marcus Aurelius a bit dry and inhuman, Seneca's letters are a gentle and applicable way to begin a journey in Stoicism.
- keynan 9y agoCapital by picketty, and Dictators handbook
- mindcrime 9y agoThe Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie The Game - Neil Strauss The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank ... among others.
- Gatsky 9y agoWish I read earlier: The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Zarath 9y agoSimulacra and Simulation
- tmatthewj 9y agoThinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie This is such a beautiful thread!
- grosspoint 9y agoThe Drunkard's Walk by Mlodinow. Really reshaped how I perceive what happens in the world, in my job, in my life in general.
- Francute 9y agoA Mathematician's Lament, by Paul Lockhart. Also, i'm not completely sure about this, because i had to have my eyes a bit open to understand it. But would be nice to had readed it in my sixteens. Basically, one of the important ideas i saved was; If you want to learn something, don't just simply study. First, find a problem that care you, then try to solve it, last, study how to actually solve it, maybe existed a better way that you could use for your next try, making easier to you to understand everything related to that problem and say with confidence you learned; maybe didn't existed a better way, and you can share and discuss your solution achieving a better one. Find problems, solve them, make them easier, learn. Then, make that general for all your life problems, not only those science related ones.
- garganzol 9y ago"Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug, Second Edition The book changed the course of my life. It allowed me to build a sustainable business, that at some point became my full-time job. The magic of that book comes from the fact that it allows you to gradually develop a compassion. For your customers, prospects and all other living beings in this world. Having that compassion embedded, you start to see a lot of subtle things. The most impactful experience for me was to comprehend that the world is a place full of pain and hardships. Not only for me, but for all others too. Once you see it, you immediately understand there is plenty of space where you can bring the value to others. But that's not all. The story does not end there. It turns out that bringing the value to others brings value to you. People start to write you things like: "you are legend", "if you ever come to Chicago give me a call", "here take my money". And this is a tipping point where things start to work as a good business. It starts to shape your life. At some point it becomes evident that you should charge a prime for your product and develop the whole thing even further. While helping other living beings along the way. That's an awesome position to be in. I thank Steve Krug, the author of the book, for bringing his findings to other people like me.
- amorphous 9y agoWould you recommend reading it even if not particularly interested in web usability?
- garganzol 9y agoAbsolutely. The product I've made is not even web-based. Treat web usability just as an example; you can extrapolate the results to much wider areas of life.
- somestag 9y agoYou specifically mention the second edition of the book. Is there a particular reason you would not recommend the "revisited" third edition? I'm not sure if you're actively recommending against it, or if you're just recommending the edition you happened to read.
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- siberianbear 9y agoThe Psychopath Code [1], by Peter Hintjens. You can download a free legal copy. Psychopaths and sociopaths are out there: they're about five to ten percent of the population. Once you've had your life intertwined with one, you'll never see the world the same. Know how to identify them and deal with them. I learned about Peter Hintjens and his book when his death was reported here on Hacker News. [1] http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths
- xiphias 9y agoBitcoin Whitepaper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Not a book, but still it was an important point in my life.
- nils-m-holm 9y agoThe Stranger by Camus, because it introduced me to the complete lack of objectivism in society, a revelation that explained a lot of things I had experienced in my life. In fact I did read it in my 20's, but it took me years to comprehend it. Then, every CS textbook I have written, because there was nothing like these when I needed them.
- fiddyschmitt 9y agoThe Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. An easily digestible summary of information and key figures in its history. Turing's Cathedral (or as my brothers call it: Von Neumann's Cathedral). An awesome account of the history of computation, and the obstacles that had to be overcome. Cryptonomicon. Hilarious The Strangest Man, by Graham Farmelo. A biography of delightfully awkward Paul Dirac. The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges. Thought provoking and profound.
- cleetus 9y agoA Mind for Numbers - Barbara Oakley I spent a lot of time studying, but not learning effectively.
- timellis-smith 9y agoFiction War and Peace Crime and Punishment Count of Monte Christo 1984 God of Small Things Paradise lost Divine comedy Non fiction Selfish gene Meditations Madness explained (the best book I've encountered for explaining how the mind works) The Red Queen Tao te Ching
- queeerkopf 9y agoAsk HN Threads with similiar topics/recommendations: * Books you wish you had read earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851 * What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155833 * Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851 * Books with a high signal to noise ratio? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027102
- yesenadam 9y agoDamn you! Geez, I downloaded 31 books yesterday from these lists. :-) As if I didn't already have a huge backlog from other book mentions on HN... So much great stuff.
- jrs235 9y agoThe one I'm about to finish: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development [1] Wish I had read this years ago! I think every developer can benefit greatly from understanding these principles. Plus if they were more widely known and adopted it would be easier to get other managers to go along with them. [1] http://amzn.to/2GL17hs http://amzn.to/2GL17hs (affiliate link)
- petagonoral 9y agoI would give your post a lot more respect if it wasn't an affiliate link. non affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935401009 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935401009
- rodjomatic 9y ago"Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion", by Sam Harris
- rvdmei 9y agoTechnomanifestos by Adam Brate. I never had any introduction to the history of information technology until I read this book.
- koolhead17 9y ago* Total Freedom by J Krishnamurti * Meditations by Marcus Aurelius * Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin * Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
- ph4 9y agoThe Book and The Wisdom of Insecurity, both by Alan Watts. Then I could have inoculated myself from the myopic obsession with eco-consciousness promoted by the rest of the books in this thread.
- WheelsAtLarge 9y agoI have 4: -Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography - you can download it for free - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - A bit simplistic but it opens your eye to the fact that talent is a small part of being successful in whatever you want to achieve. - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - You need people to succeed. Making enemies or just treating people indifferently is a bad move. - 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey. People put it down because the advice seems to be common sense but it's only common sense if you know it but not everyone knows it. - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius- this is a lifelong guide. Read it until the pages fall apart and then get another and do the same. All these books can be read multiple times and you'll learn something new so get hard copies if you can.
- jkmcf 9y agoHere's a brand new one, from a famous history podcaster, Mike Duncan of The History of Rome fame. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic It would have been great if everyone had read this in the 80s, 90s, 2000s... An under-analyzed period of Roman history.
- Balgair 9y agoI'll echo Duncan's tHoR podcast. It is really good.
- rasengan0 9y agoThis is ongoing practice: Zen mind, Beginner's mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind
- akulbe 9y agoMy five year old is a voracious reader. I feel like this is one of the most important educational tools you can give anyone. We stress to her that if you can read, and comprehend, there's nothing you cannot learn. That's why I included the first two on this list. How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler How to Read Slowly - James Sire The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- monkeygus 9y agoThe Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen