Hi Guys, What are the top 4 books that you’ve read...
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Hi Guys, What are the top 4 books that you’ve read in past 3 years?
I’ll start, Sapiens has to be up there, changes the perspective on the world and human progress. it helps to zoom out a bit and compare our today with our past as a species
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next up would be Millionaire Fastlane, cheesy but very very helpful insights and examples, very detailed too
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next one is Mans Search for meaning by Victor fankl. If you are unmotivated, depressed. or think that your life is tough. just read the book. best quote: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
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I would like to add Animal Farm and Man search for meaning in the list, both are pretty famous and worth a read. Both the books will give you a sense of humane stuff inside you and the life around that humane stuff. I also read Metamorphosis by franz kafka which is one of the rarest books(I haven't read many but still) I have read till now. The book is quite unique and some might not feel good after reading it, you may feel gross after reading it but it is because the way kafka wrote you can imagine all the stuff happening in that book and can relate to the real-life 🙂
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damn I also mentioned Man search for meaning 😂
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@silly-train-46493 I was about to say that
next up would be The Daily Stoic.
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@gray-scientist-12794 great list above, a good follow up to your list would be "The obstacle is the way" (same stoic author, love ryan) - most impactful book when everything was f*cked in life 🙂 Amazing examples, insights and action steps all in one - was insane. I'm reading many more but all in progress as I want to read them slowly. 2. Power of habit 3. the power of full engagement
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@swift-pilot-25722 read the first 2 🙂, will have to check on the number 3.
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I will quickly mention a couple 1. Deep Work by Cal Newport 2. End of Jobs by Taylor Pearson
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Awesome thread! Most of the books here seems like from work/improvement domain. Mine are a bit weird but here we go: 1. What if - Randall Munroe (Ex Nasa, Creator of XKCD) 2. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari (It's kind of part 1 of a non-fiction triology) 3. eternal golden braid - Douglas R Hofstadter (concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence, pulitzer for general non-fiction) 4. Tools of Titan - Tim Ferris (Found it very cliche at first reading, but to my surprise - this book has great re-readability)
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@calm-grass-85557 read deep work last year, have taken up a lot of ideas from there into my workflow. End of jobs looks interesting @dry-waitress-7852 agreed on Tools of titans, my morning routine I have adapted from there, will check up on what if& eternal golden braid
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Here is my list. 1. Culture Map 2. The undoing project 3. Radical Candor 4. Thinking fast and slow There are many good books to put in top 5/4. Thank you folks.