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🦚 Kogicon What 1 book has most changed your life, and why?
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👤 Chetan Vashisht Peak how to master almost anything is an amazing book. If you've not read any self help books, this one is a great start. It really sets you on the right path.
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☝️ Jean-David Moisan Perhaps The Richest Man in Babylon. It's a book about finance, but it contains a lot of life lessons.
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👤 Feiss If I can't remember any, I guess I don't have a life changing book.. I do have many that I loved, that introduced me to a genre, or to the love of books..
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🥝 Mr "The end of average". We've been trained to reduce people to a number (ACT, SAT, IQ, Above Average, Below Average) and it all falls apart when you take a deeper look. Your system will always fail to address outliers if you attempt to average everyone and everything. Everyone is an outlier in some way.
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👤 Deep Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, It helped to cure internet addiction
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💻 Kernel I love his books 'So Good They Can't Ignore You' and 'Deep Work' too, they were real eye openers.
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🏛️ Brandon Pittman The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson. I lost 90 pounds and got my skin issues under control.
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🎣 Fish both Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lowry. Practically the same exact story
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🤙 Migz Anthem was a really nice read.
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👤 Dan Heath The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I was stuck in a loop of negative behaviours exacerbated by depression and anxiety for years. Understanding that I could reprogram these little instruction sets and correct my behaviour gave me the drive to systematically rebuild my life.
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⚪ Ghostis The Calvin and Hobbes Compendium by Watterson. It showed me that I didn't have to compromise or settle when making artistic objects.
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🥝 Mr Wow, this runs deep. I think I read all of Calvin and Hobbes when I was young, it's stuck with me my entire life and informs much of my creative process. It's truly a work that can (and does) cover everything.
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🤙 Migz What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami.
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🐵 Max Really liked that one as well! Still unable to run everyday though.
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🤙 Migz The best effort I can was around 3x a week. I think running everyday demands a different type of dedication and commitment. As long as we improve every run, that should be okay :)
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🔚 Bort Simpson 1984. Painted a plausible nightmare portrait of authoritarianism and thought control; is more relevant today than it's ever been.
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👤 Zero Edge Agreed but its funny seeing how both sides think the same thing of the other. :)
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👤 Zero Edge The Bible. Specifically: The Book Of Job -> Provided me with better wisdom and understanding.. gave me better understanding of God and how he works. Proverbs -> Provides wisdom on a daily basis. John -> The two most valuable commandments: (Put your trust in the higher power, love others as yourself) . Its the only book I can go back to daily and leave with overwhelming peace. Also taught me to find a new "power" in faith which I never could find with logic alone.
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👤 Dan Heath So I'm curious on many levels. Is faith for you a lifelong pursuit or something you've turned to at a point in life? Saying that faith offers something logic does not - how does that work for you? Is this an exclusive thing (i.e. faith OR logic) or do they back each other up? Many questions.
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👤 Zero Edge I found faith (or God) after years of inward reflection... It was like as I got to know myself and my internal workings better I found something that was beyond "myself". Something more deep than the reality I had known beforehand. Logic was my primary decision making tactic beforehand but "trust" (in God) has definitely brought me into a more "level" place. The Bible had always been a question mark before but "The Message" translation finally made it understandable.
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🤔 David 'As a Man Thinketh' by James Allen. I first read it in 2013 after some major life-events; it helped me realize that I am the captain of my ship and that I control the sails. I found it after first learning about Project Gutenberg; you can find versions there gutenberg.org/eboo... (and alternatively...https://www.thinketh.io/)
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🏒 Lucian Marin Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. Remembering everything is possible, so everything is possible!?
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