Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#31

Post by emperor_ » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 5:46 AM UTC

12 rules of life by Jordan Peterson. Also Peterson's YouTube channel has loads of free lectures.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#32

Post by sidcool » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 5:47 AM UTC

temp2903d wrote: post #18

Maybe not the place to admit it but I'm more of a Naval fan myself...

I think many here at HN follow Naval. This is not a bad place to admit it.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#33

Post by sidcool » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 5:49 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #26

rkho wrote: post #17

I like Aaron Swartz's Raw Nerve series: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Disclaimer: This is it’s a series of posts on how to get better at life written by someone that ended their own life.

Sometimes, those who suffer the most have the most to teach the rest.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#34

Post by thundergolfer » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 5:54 AM UTC

emperor_ wrote: post #31

12 rules of life by Jordan Peterson. Also Peterson's YouTube channel has loads of free lectures.

It's pretty hard to avoid the reactionary politics when consuming Peterson, but if you can yeah you get mostly tried-and-true basic self-help advice.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#35

Post by squirrelicus » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 5:56 AM UTC

Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, and his many tens of hours of content on YouTube.

If you're willing to entertain the idea for a brief moment that the Bible has any wisdom at all, his Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories is a must. I recommend them even if you aren't willing, in fact. They converted me, and i was a fairly nihilistic atheist for almost all of my thinking life.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#36

Post by nell » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 6:03 AM UTC

If you already know all the usual advice or don’t think highly of them, try the graduate level works of Kapil Gupta.

- kapilguptamd.com

- He appeared in a few episodes on 33voices podcast

- two recent appearances in Crazy Wisdom podcast with Stewart Alsop

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#37

Post by prepend » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 6:06 AM UTC

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a quick book that goes into how we internalize meaning that drives happiness from purpose that helped me figure out this out better than many other “journey > destination” books.

Bed of Procrustus by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a bunch of quick aphorisms that takes less than an hour to read and gives good insight into Taleb’s form of critical thinking.

Between the Devil and the Dragon by Eric Hoffer has essays from a self-educated, laborer philosopher and has helped me to understand much about how I think through things and why.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#38

Post by p1esk » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 6:11 AM UTC

nell wrote: post #36

If you already know all the usual advice or don’t think highly of them, try the graduate level works of Kapil Gupta. - kapilguptamd.com - He appeared in a few episodes on 33voices podcast - two recent appearances in Crazy Wisdom podcast with Stewart Alsop

Are you serious? That website looks like total bullshit.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#39

Post by z1mm32m4n » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 6:16 AM UTC

My favorites:

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

#40

Post by rtcoms » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 6:18 AM UTC

https://waitbutwhy.com/