bitcoin Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Hey everyone, Lets make a list of the best books for philosophers, scientists and entrepreneurs ! Novels Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse Siddhartha - Herman Hesse Philosophy Letters from a Stoic - Seneca Poetics - Aristotle Politics - Aritistotle Rhetoric - Aristotle Dialogues and Essays - Seneca Essays - Michel De Montaigne Candide - Voltaire The Birth Of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche This Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Beyond Good & Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche Real-time-relationships - Stefan Molyneux UPB - Stefan Molyneux Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges - Fernando Sorrentino Science Physics: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics - Richard P. Feynman The World As I See It - Albert Einstein The Accidental Universe - Alan Lightman Ideas and Opinions - Albert Einstein Relativity - Albert Einstein I, Galileo - Bonnie Christensen Technology The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil Genetics / History: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History - Nicholas Wade The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari Atheism: The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins The Magic of Reality - Richard Dawkins The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris Lying - Sam Harris Waking Up - Sam Harris The Portable Atheist - Christopher Hitchens Psychology Thou Shalt Not Be Aware - Alice Miller Breaking Down the Wall of Silence - Alice Miller The Drama of the Gifted Child - Alice Miller The Body Never Lies - Alice Miller Psychology of Romantic Love by Nathaniel Brandan 6 pillars of Self Esteem by Nathaniel Brandan Economics By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission - Charles Murray Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard Economic Facts and Fallacies - Thomas Sowell The Case Against the Fed - Murray Rothbard Human Action - Ludwig Von Mises Self-Help 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey How to Win Friends & Influence People in the Digital Age - Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends & Influence People- Dale Carnegie Choose Yourself - James Altucher The Power of No - James Altucher Become an Idea Machine - James Altucher The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss Business The Lean Startup - Eric Ries Lean Analytics: Use Data tot Build a Better Startup Faster - Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz Lean UX: Appying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience - Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden The Startup Playbook - David S. Kidder The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding - Al Ries & Laura Ries The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries & Laura Ries 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding - Al Ries & Laura Ries Zero to One - Peter Thiel The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull Creativity The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win your Inner Creative Battles - Steven Pressfield These are some of the books on my shelf with more to come -- not in any order of best to worse. What are you reading? I would be thrilled to hear ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shnugwa Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 - Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill Think and Grow rich has been used by millions of business leaders around the world to create a concrete plan for success that, when followed, never fails. About the author: As a young special investigator for a national business magazine, Napoleon Hill was sent to interview Andrew Carnegie. During that interview, Carnegie slyly dropped a hint of a certain master power he used; a magic law of the human mind-a little known psychological principle that was amazing in its power. Carnegie suggested to Hill that on that principle he could build the philosophy of all personal success-whether it be measured in terms of Money, Power, Position, Prestige, Influence, or Accumulation of Wealth. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven Covey The book first introduces the concept of paradigm shift and helps the reader understand that different perspectives exist, i.e. that two people can see the same thing and yet differ with each other. On this premise, it introduces the seven habits in a proper order. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the habits, which are represented by the following imperatives: IndependenceThe First Three Habits surround moving from dependence to independence (i.e., self-mastery): 1 - Be Proactive roles and relationships in life. 2 - Begin with the End in Mind envision what you want in the future so that you know concretely what to make a reality. 3 - Put First Things First A manager must manage his own person. Personally. And managers should implement activities that aim to reach the second habit. Covey says that habit two is the mental creation; habit three is the physical creation. Interdependence The next three habits talk about Interdependence (e.g. working with others): 4 - Think Win-Win Genuine feelings for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten his way. 5 - Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood Use empathic listening to be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, and positive problem solving. 6 - Synergize Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals that no one could have done alone. Continuous Improvements The final habit is that of continuous improvement in both the personal and interpersonal spheres of influence.7 - Sharpen the Saw Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, prayer (meditation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions service to society for spiritual renewal.Covey explains the "Upward Spiral" model in the sharpening the saw section. Through our conscience, along with meaningful and consistent progress, the spiral will result in growth, change, and constant improvement. In essence, one is always attempting to integrate and master the principles outlined in The 7 Habits at progressively higher levels at each iteration. Subsequent development on any habit will render a different experience and you will learn the principles with a deeper understanding. The Upward Spiral model consists of three parts: learn, commit, do. According to Covey, one must be increasingly educating the conscience in order to grow and develop on the upward spiral. The idea of renewal by education will propel one along the path of personal freedom, security, wisdom, and power. - Search Inside Yourself, by Chade-Meng Tan With Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work. Meng’s job is to teach Google’s best and brightest how to apply mindfulness techniques in the office and beyond; now, readers everywhere can get insider access to one of the most sought after classes in the country, a course in health, happiness and creativity that is improving the livelihood and productivity of those responsible for one of the most successful businesses in the world. With forewords by Daniel Goleman, author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, renowned mindfulness expert and author of Coming To Our Senses, Meng’s Search Inside Yourself is an invaluable guide to achieving your own best potential. These three books are ones that I've personally read and enjoyed / learned from tremendously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuzzums Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Catch 22 By Joseph Heller, and read by Jim Weiss. I really recommend the audiobook, Jim Weiss adds a lot to the narration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitcoin Posted August 7, 2015 Author Share Posted August 7, 2015 Thank you both ! I hope more people contribute to this thread, as, if anything, I would certainly be interested to research, learn and read some more based on all of your recommendations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD91 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 This will be just off the cuff from the top of my head so I might edit later to add a few more: Hannibal and Me - Andreas Kluth Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter A First-Rate Madness - Nassir Ghaemi Getting Things Done - David Allen Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks This is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin The Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederik Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Those are my life-changing favorites: 80/10/10 by Douglas Graham (healthy lifestyle)The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida (understanding my masculine nature)Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (basic financial literacy)Real-Time Relationships by... Stef (philosophy for personal freedom) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danske Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Antifragile is a wonderful book if you're looking for a modern classic that will turn your world view upside down and expose many a cognitive bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cager Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Mastery-Robert Greene Weapons of Mass Instruction-John Gatto Street Smarts, Hot Commodities-Jim Rogers David and Goliath-Malcolm Gladwell Reminiscences of a Stock Operator-Edwin Lefevre Market Wizards-Jack Schwager Lying-Sam Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnadogsoth Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Science of Christian Economy - Lyndon LaRouche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koroviev Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Fountainhead -Ayn Rand Anthem - Ayn Rand In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Mate 1984 - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Befree Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I’m sure everyone on here knows the good libertarian books. Here’s two I like that you may not know. Survival of the sickest - Sharon Moalem (Kind of my intro book into epigenetics- It was a good listen) The painted bird – Kosinski (My favorite book in collage, one of the best anti-war books of all time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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