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What are some books you'd recommend to your 20-year old self?
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The whole 10,000 hours rule he uses in the book turned out to be misinterpreted and oversimplified just like all his work.
He currently has a new book out, which I haven't read yet, but I listened to his interview about it. In there he goes on to defend Joe Patterno
and happily talk about how he doesn't really do a deep research of topics he's writing about 
Apollo Kid
Veteran
History - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. (I actually read this when I was in my 20's)
AZBeauty
Stop lyin' nicca.
This is a great list.
The systemic function he outlined in the book is still correct, the hard-line threshold wasn't, but that's to be expected.The whole 10,000 hours rule he uses in the book turned out to be misinterpreted and oversimplified just like all his work.
He currently has a new book out, which I haven't read yet, but I listened to his interview about it. In there he goes on to defend Joe Patterno
I just finished Antifragile and Black Swan, I need to check out Fooled by Randomness.
Reading I will teach you to be rich, listening to Richest man in Babylon on Audible and have 7 Habits waiting for me on my kindle
This and Siddhartha are wonderful books to read post graduation when you're entering the "real world"
Had already read it in high school but I highly recommend reading Ishmael and to a slightly lesser extent My Ishmael to anyone seeking knowledge/understanding about humans and our relationship with the rest of the world.
Others:
Sapiens
Steal This Book
The War of Art
Essentialism
I am Keats (written by one of my exes Dads)..its a brilliant look at re-focusing your daily outlook
Anyone looking to get into esoteric studies like me when I was in my early 20's should read:
Words to the Wise
Secret Teaching of All Ages
The Kybalion
The Secret Destiny of America
dish lowry
Pro
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Encyclopedia Of Bodybuilding
Bob Volman- Price Action Scalping....makes the stock market seem less intimidating. i would've been 100x richer.
Star- Objective Hate....great wordsmith.
most books are junk. i would've avoided anything written or recommended by media people.
Bob Volman- Price Action Scalping....makes the stock market seem less intimidating. i would've been 100x richer.
Star- Objective Hate....great wordsmith.
most books are junk. i would've avoided anything written or recommended by media people.
3 Magic Words
The Secret Doctrine
The People’s History of the United States
12 Rules for Life
Principles
The Four Agreements
The Secret
Tribes
Notes of a Native Son
The Way of the Superior Man
Destruction of Black Civilization
Pimp
The Secret Doctrine
The People’s History of the United States
12 Rules for Life
Principles
The Four Agreements
The Secret
Tribes
Notes of a Native Son
The Way of the Superior Man
Destruction of Black Civilization
Pimp
This was a positive thread so I didn't want to hate...but one list in particular had me going
Another book in this thread (not from that terrible list) seriously had, "Highly recommended by prison inmates and celebrities" in the lead paragraph of its summary.
Lies My Teacher Told Me is the truth.
I really wanted to get into People's History cause it was recommended to me a bunch...but when I finally got into reading it I was disappointed. It's a good counterbalance to the bullshyt mainstream history, but he fills it with a lot of his own biases and doesn't use as many primary sources so it's hard to figure out what's the truth and what's just his gloss on shyt. The kinda book where if you're primed to like it you'll eat it up, if you're primed to be skeptical you'll throw it away. I like the idea but wish he would have written it in a way that it can be used better to counter the dominant narrative and not just preach to the choir.
I came in to say all of his books except for bed of procrustes are good.