50+ Book Recommendations by Blas Moros
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Kenneth O. Stanley
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman This book is about questioning the value of objectives, particularly when it dealing with something audacious and innovative. https://t.co/StTGqfhbNE https://t.co/peijcvB2ks
The Four Agreements
Miguel Ruiz (Jr.)
Identifies four self-limiting beliefs that impede one's experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.The 4 Agreements, Don Ruiz Summary: This is one of the most impactful books I’ve read. The power lies in its simplicity and his 4 agreements are universal and timeless messages I’ll keep coming back to https://t.co/EQhTIfSAvV https://t.co/VdmU0mTacK
Apprentice to Genius
Robert Kanigel
Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science.Apprentice to Genius is one of the better books I’ve read in a while. It describes the beautiful alchemy that can occur when a master / apprentice relationship is formed https://t.co/0NmJwGOPNI
The Four Agreements
Miguel Ruiz (Jr.)
Identifies four self-limiting beliefs that impede one's experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.Could very well be that I came across this early in my life, but Ruiz’s 4 Agreements is one of the most influential books I’ve ever read. Simple, but not easy (for me, at least…) 👇🏽 https://t.co/VBnUnSGpE3
Birth of the Chaordic Age
Dee W. Hock
A inside look at the VISA corporation and the new chaordic business organization method, chaos and order combined, describes how this method works for VISA and how it is being put into practice all over the world. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.@JMihaljevic @deewhock Incredible human with lessons and ideas that should be far more widely known. Summary of one of his many incredible books below https://t.co/IovBz0PgGG
It's About TIME! 5 Steps to True Time Management
The Goals Institute
It?s About TIME! is a practical how to guide that teaches and explains life skills and techniques for managing yourself. You can quickly learn and apply these tools and techniques to increase your results, success, wealth, and happiness.It's About TIME! presents ?5 Steps to True Time Management.? This is a simple, easy-to-understand system for taking control and getting things done. Everything you need to use the system is contained in the book. Free forms are available from the publisher?s website. You do not need to purchase any special planners or other tools. It's About TIME! includes many quick and easy tips. You can use these tips to immediately start managing yourself and your time better.If you follow the techniques in this gem of a book, you will be able to get more balance, get organized, be more effective, reduce stress and frustration, and spend more time having fun and enjoying life.Thousands of individuals in prestigious organizations have learned and benefited from these techniques when they were presented in seminars by the authors. Now those same concepts have been captured in this book so you can benefit, too! In plain language and by providing you with simple tools and many examples, It?s About TIME! will show you and explain:*The 5 Steps to True Time Management System and how to apply each step to take control, be effective, and get the balance in your life that you want. *How to keep your time in proper perspective so that you consciously make decisions and take steps to spend your time wisely. *How to use the ?3 Magic Pieces of Paper? to manage your time and achieve your goals. Fast, simple, and easy. *How to use the two most powerful techniques you will ever learn for increasing daily effectiveness and results. *How to choose priorities and eliminate procrastination. *How to say NO to Time Bandits. *Dozens of techniques for working smarter, not harder. *How to clean out several types of clutter that are bogging you down. *How to stay focused on high priorities with the biggest paybacks at work and in life. Free Forms and Tools:The book has a special link to the publisher?s website for free downloadable tools for a time log, daily planning, weekly planning, and more.@MattJoass It’s taken a lot of trial and error to figure out when I should do what (morning for reading/writing, etc.) but I’ve found this book helpful https://t.co/gmCSzthDM0
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard W. Hamming
@_inpractise @LTCWRK One of my favorite essays of all time. Stripe recently republished his book The Art of Doing Science of Engineering which is just beautiful and all his talks on youtube are well worth watching! https://t.co/gWC7Jvh8wu
Chase, Chance, and Creativity
James H. Austin MD
A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research. This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field. Austin shows how, in his own investigations, unpredictable events shaped the outcome of his research and brought about novel results. He then goes beyond this story of serendipity to propose a new classification of the varieties of chance, drawing on his own research and examples from the history of science--including the famous accidents that led Fleming to the discovery of penicillin. Finally, he explores the nature of the creative process, considering not only the environmental and neurophysiological correlates of creativity but also the role of intuition in both scientific discoveries and spiritual quests. This updated MIT Press paperback edition includes a new introduction and recent material on medical research, creativity, and spirituality.@tombielecki Thank you! Yes, really enjoyed the book and some of the ways I’ve been able to more concretely think about serendipity. Well worth the read
The life of Elbert H. Gary
Ida M Tarbell
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Because he spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of concentrating on getting food, a seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Path of Least Resistance
Robert Fritz
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A Treatise on Efficacy
François Jullien
In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien s brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
John H. Patterson
CROWTHER SAMUEL
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Human Universals
Donald Brown
This book explores physical and behavioral characteristics that can be considered universal among all cultures, all people. It presents cases demonstrating universals, looks at the history of the study of universals, and presents an interesting study of a hypothetical tribe, The Universal People.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
- A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1961, Charles Koch joined his father's Wichita-based company, then valued at $21 million. Six years later, following his father's death, he was named chairman of the board and CEO of Koch Industries, Inc. Today, Koch Industries' estimated worth is $100 billion - making it one of the largest private companies in the world. Koch exceeds the S&P 500's five-decade growth by 27-fold, and plans to double its value on average every six years. What exactly does this company do and why is it so remarkably profitable? While you won't find the Koch name on your stain-resistant carpet, stretch denim jeans, the connectors in your smartphone or your baby's ultra-absorbent diapers, Charles Koch's Market-Based Management� system, intended to generate goodprofit, drove these innovations and many more. Good profit results from products and services that customers vote for freely with their money; products that help improve people's lives. It results from a culture where employees are empowered to act entrepreneurially to discover customer preferences and the best ways to satisfy them. Good profit is the earnings that follow when long-term value is created for everyone - customers, employees, shareholders and society.Readers will learn to: � Craft a vision for how a business can thrive in spite of disruption and ever-changing consumer values � Find and retain a workforce possessing both virtue and talent (the first being the more important) � Award employees with ownership and decision rights based on their comparative advantages and proven contributions, rather than job title � Motivate all employees to maximise their contributions with effectively structured incentives so employees' compensation is limited only by the value they create - not budgets or company-wide policy A must-read for any leader, entrepreneur or student, as well as those who want a more civil, fair and prosperous society, GOOD PROFIT is destined to rank as one of the greatest management books of all time.
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Effortless Mastery
Kenny Werner
My story -- Why do we play? -- Beyond limited goals -- Fear, the mind and the ego -- Fear-based practicing -- Teaching dysfunctions: fear-based teaching -- Hearing dysfunctions: fear-based listening -- Fear-based composing -- "The space"--"There are no wrong notes" -- Meditation #1 -- Effortless mastery -- Meditation #2 -- Affirmations -- The steps to change -- Step one -- Step two -- Step three -- Step four -- An afterthought -- I am great, I am a master -- Stretching the form -- The spiritual (reprise) -- One final meditation.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.” Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end. What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives? Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything, from how an actress portrays a role to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory, but infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander. Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
My Life and Work
Henry Ford
"My Life and Work" by Henry Ford. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Sam Walton
Sam Walton
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Chapters in My Life
Frederick Gates
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The Carolina Way
Dean Smith
The most successful coach in college basketball history shares his complete coaching philosophy and demonstrates how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges in one's professional and personal life, emphasizing the three key principles of Play Hard, Play Smart, and Play Together. Re[romt/@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Meadows' newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
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Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger. A man whose simplicity and clarity of thought was unequal to anything Bevelin had seen. In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin and Munger, Bevelin cites an encyclopedic range of thinkers: from first-century BCE Roman poet Publius Terentius to Mark Twain-from Albert Einstein to Richard Feynman-from 16th Century French essayist Michel de Montaigne to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett. In the book, he describes ideas and research findings from many different fields. This book is for those who love the constant search for knowledge. It is in the spirit of Charles Munger, who says, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." There are roads that lead to unhappiness. An understanding of how and why we can "die" should help us avoid them. We can't eliminate mistakes, but we can prevent those that can really hurt us. Using exemplars of clear thinking and attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how our thoughts are influenced, why we make misjudgments and tools to improve our thinking. Bevelin tackles such eternal questions as: Why do we behave like we do? What do we want out of life? What interferes with our goals? Read and study this wonderful multidisciplinary exploration of wisdom. It may change the way you think and act in business and in life.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
- This book is about the fictitious Seeker, who has known a lot of misery, and his visit to the "Library of Wisdom" where he meets another fictitious character - the Librarian- along with Warren Buffett and Charles Munger. The Seeker learns how to make better decisions to help his children avoid doing the dumb things he has done. For instance, he learns from Buffett and Munger the best way to prevent trouble is to avoid it altogether by learning what works and what does not. They do so in the spirit of the anonymous man who said: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." Additionally, the book provides examples of pure folly and some lessons on how to make fewer dumb mistakes than other people. And then how to fix mistakes faster, should you make them. The major lesson is "ignorance removal" and the notion that decision-making is not about making brilliant decision, but avoiding terrible ones. This is not a book for those who like complexities or advanced math - rather it's for those who love efficiency, simplicity and common sense or judgment - hallmarks of Buffett and Munger. Like Einstein, both have a remarkable ability to eliminate folly and superficiality and get directly to the heart of things.
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Plain Talk
Ken Iverson
A renowned business leader who remains CEO of the steel industry giant he created shares his ideas and observations on how to grow a world-class organization and the principles behind his very successful management style.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (Illustrated)
Andrew Carnegie
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It's Your Ship
Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performance rested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadership skills before he could improve his ship. Within months he created a crew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take the initiative and take responsibility for their actions. The slogan on board became "It's your ship," and Benfold was soon recognized far and wide as a model of naval efficiency. How did Abrashoff do it? Against the backdrop of today's United States Navy-Benfold was a key player in our Persian Gulf fleet-Abrashoff shares his secrets of successful management including: See the ship through the eyes of the crew: By soliciting a sailor's suggestions, Abrashoff drastically reduced tedious chores that provided little additional value. Communicate, communicate, communicate: The more Abrashoff communicated the plan, the better the crew's performance. His crew would eventually call him "Megaphone Mike," since they heard from him so often. Create discipline by focusing on purpose: Discipline skyrocketed when Abrashoff's crew believed that what they were doing was important. Listen aggressively: After learning that many sailors wanted to use the GI Bill, Abrashoff brought a test official aboard the ship-and held the SATs forty miles off the Iraqi coast. From achieving amazing cost savings to winning the highest gunnery score in the Pacific Fleet, Captain Abrashoff's extraordinary campaign sent shock waves through the U.S. Navy. It can help you change the course of your ship, no matter where your business battles are fought.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Leading
Alex Ferguson
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The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
- "Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever--a ... memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How do you go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give you a road map that works for everyone. But there's a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of humor along the way"--
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Deep Simplicity
John R. Gribbin
But the sensitive way in which systems respond to those basic laws, combined with feedback, can explain why, for example, just one vehicle braking on a motorway can cause a traffic jam; how a tiny genetic mutation or environmental change may make a species develop in a wholly different way.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
- At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.
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It's About TIME! 5 Steps to True Time Management
The Goals Institute
It?s About TIME! is a practical how to guide that teaches and explains life skills and techniques for managing yourself. You can quickly learn and apply these tools and techniques to increase your results, success, wealth, and happiness.It's About TIME! presents ?5 Steps to True Time Management.? This is a simple, easy-to-understand system for taking control and getting things done. Everything you need to use the system is contained in the book. Free forms are available from the publisher?s website. You do not need to purchase any special planners or other tools. It's About TIME! includes many quick and easy tips. You can use these tips to immediately start managing yourself and your time better.If you follow the techniques in this gem of a book, you will be able to get more balance, get organized, be more effective, reduce stress and frustration, and spend more time having fun and enjoying life.Thousands of individuals in prestigious organizations have learned and benefited from these techniques when they were presented in seminars by the authors. Now those same concepts have been captured in this book so you can benefit, too! In plain language and by providing you with simple tools and many examples, It?s About TIME! will show you and explain:*The 5 Steps to True Time Management System and how to apply each step to take control, be effective, and get the balance in your life that you want. *How to keep your time in proper perspective so that you consciously make decisions and take steps to spend your time wisely. *How to use the ?3 Magic Pieces of Paper? to manage your time and achieve your goals. Fast, simple, and easy. *How to use the two most powerful techniques you will ever learn for increasing daily effectiveness and results. *How to choose priorities and eliminate procrastination. *How to say NO to Time Bandits. *Dozens of techniques for working smarter, not harder. *How to clean out several types of clutter that are bogging you down. *How to stay focused on high priorities with the biggest paybacks at work and in life. Free Forms and Tools:The book has a special link to the publisher?s website for free downloadable tools for a time log, daily planning, weekly planning, and more.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M Pirsig
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life. This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
The Warrior Within
John Little
Inspire and educate yourself with this comprehensive guide to the tactful and legendary ways of renowned martial arts master, Bruce Lee! During his lifetime, legendary martial artist Bruce Lee formulated a complex personal philosophy--a synthesis of Eastern and Western ideals--that extolled the virtues of knowledge and total mastery of one's self. However, most of his philosophical writings could be found only within the personal library of the Bruce Lee estate--until now. The Warrior Within is the most comprehensive volume of these teachings, meant to help you apply Lee's philosophies to your own life. This unique guide reveals such life-affirming secrets as: Seeing the totality of life and putting things into perspective Understanding the concept of Yin and Yang Defeating adversity by adapting to circumstances Tapping into inner spiritual forces to help shape the future With a foreword by his wife, Linda Lee Cadwell and photographs and other memorabilia from Bruce Lee's short but celebrated life, The Warrior Within is an engrossing and easy-to-understand guide to the little-explored world of Bruce Lee.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics)
Alexandre Dumas
Set against the tumultuous years of the Post-Napoleonic era, Dumas's grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Shares insights into how adversity can bring out the best in individuals and communities, drawing on multiple disciplines to consider such topics as the superiority of city states over nation states and the drawbacks of debt.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
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Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living. Seneca's writings are a profound, powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, "siddha," which is defined as "achieved," and "artha" which is defined as "meaning" or "wealth." The word serves as the name for the principal character, a man on a spiritual journey of self-discovery during the time of the first Buddha. Siddhartha is the son of a wealthy Brahmin family who decides to leave his home in the hopes of gaining spiritual illumination. Siddhartha is joined by his best friend Govinda. The two renounce their earthly possessions, engage in ritual fasting and intense meditation and ultimately seek out and speak with Gautama, the original Buddha. Here the two go their separate ways, Govinda joining the order of the Buddha, Siddhartha traveling on in search of spiritual enlightenment. In order to complete this novel Hesse immersed himself in the sacred teachings of both Hindu and Buddhist scriptures and lived a semi-reclusive life in order to achieve his own spiritual enlightenment. Considered one of Hesse's most important works, "Siddhartha" remains to this day as one of his most popular. It is a work that deals with the quest that we all undertake in some way or another, to define our lives in an environment of conflicting dualities and ultimately find spiritual awareness. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Titan
Ron Chernow
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, "Titan" draws on unprecedented access to John D. Rockefeller's private papers to reconstruct the story of his troubled origins and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. 105 photos.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Identifies four self-limiting beliefs that impede one's experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.@BooksChatterBot This is a cool idea! Please add all the books found at the following link. These are the best of the best - the top 5% of what is now over 600 books read and summarized https://t.co/SP0CSgfSzT
Red and Me
Bill Russell
“Bill Russell was the greatest team basketball player ever….[He] has produced a moving tribute to his friend and, in a larger sense, to friendship.” —Booklist In Red and Me, Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell pays homage to his mentor and coach, the inimitable Red Auerbach. A poignant remembrance of a life-altering relationship in the tradition of Big Russ and Me and Tuesdays With Morrie, Red and Me tells an unforgettable story of one unlikely and enduring friendship set against the backdrop of the greatest basketball dynasty in NBA history.1/ Just finished Red and Me by Bill Russell. It’s a beautiful book about their relationship and worth reading. One bit I can’t shake is how misunderstood Russ’ game was even after he led USF to multiple championships. He was misunderstood because he didn’t fit the “center” mold
Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard R. Hamming
@stripepress This is one of my favorite books of all time. Hamming is brilliant and should be far more widely known than he is. If you’re unsure, check out this summary https://t.co/JBzsk0jAWz
Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard
As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved to Southern California with little English and less money. Today his company, Patagonia, earns more than $600 million a year and is a beacon and benchmark for sustainable capitalism. This is the amazing story of a young man who found escape by scaling the world's highest peaks, of an innovator who used his father's blacksmith tools to fashion equipment that changed climbing forever, and of the entrepreneur who brought doing good and having a blast into the heart of a business.Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard https://t.co/4v3r4Jw2BI https://t.co/n91bWRqulz
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
Praised for enjoyable writing, practical suggestions, and scientifically documented material, previous editions of this title have been widely read by business professionals, fundraisers, and those interested in psychology. This new edition includes morefirsthand accounts of how principles presented in the book apply to personal lives; updated coverage of popular culture and new technology; and more on how compliance principles work in other cultures.--From publisher description.@GehanFathi Psychology - Poor Charlie’s almanack and influence by cialdini. Biology - autobiography of Charles Darwin and Dawkins’ Selfish Gene. Almost a cliche they’re so popular but there’s a reason.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
@GehanFathi Psychology - Poor Charlie’s almanack and influence by cialdini. Biology - autobiography of Charles Darwin and Dawkins’ Selfish Gene. Almost a cliche they’re so popular but there’s a reason.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882
Charles Darwin
The only complete edition.@GehanFathi Psychology - Poor Charlie’s almanack and influence by cialdini. Biology - autobiography of Charles Darwin and Dawkins’ Selfish Gene. Almost a cliche they’re so popular but there’s a reason.
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
With a new epilogue to the 40th anniversary edition.@GehanFathi Psychology - Poor Charlie’s almanack and influence by cialdini. Biology - autobiography of Charles Darwin and Dawkins’ Selfish Gene. Almost a cliche they’re so popular but there’s a reason.
The Circle of Fire
don Miguel Ruiz
Presents a collection of prayers, meditations, and reflections on wisdom, love, forgiveness, gratitude, truth, and happiness that draws on the four guided principles for life transformation presented in "The Four Agreements."@SlowPorcupine @patrick_oshag If that passage resonates with you, you should check out some Toltec wisdom by Don Miguel Ruiz... https://t.co/6JtC9gwOOG
Effortless Mastery
Kenny Werner
My story -- Why do we play? -- Beyond limited goals -- Fear, the mind and the ego -- Fear-based practicing -- Teaching dysfunctions: fear-based teaching -- Hearing dysfunctions: fear-based listening -- Fear-based composing -- "The space"--"There are no wrong notes" -- Meditation #1 -- Effortless mastery -- Meditation #2 -- Affirmations -- The steps to change -- Step one -- Step two -- Step three -- Step four -- An afterthought -- I am great, I am a master -- Stretching the form -- The spiritual (reprise) -- One final meditation.@iddings_sean Have you read effortless mastery by Kenny Werner? One of the better books on learning/mastery that I’ve come across