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Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by cannonedhamster »

Books on interacting with people.

How to Win Friends and Influence People. - Dale Carnegie

Influence - Robert Cialdini

Books on understanding how to push through adversity

The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday

Man's Search For Meaning - Victor Frankly

Books on process improvement

The Phoenix Project

The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss (ignore the outsourcing bit, listen to his podcast)

Books on breaking out of your thought bubble.

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Ishmael - David Quinn

Books for understanding how sales works

Ultimate Sales Machine - Chet Holmes

Negotiate As If Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss

Any of these books are great starts. If the leadership big bites you there's way more I can suggest. Most of these are a mix of classics and new stuff. I've read them all and they want have their own style and provide their own insight. The trick is to find out what parts work with how you do and incorporate them into your flow. The learning process never ends.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by waitingkuo »

I always think that learning probability can not only help you to gain more intuition when dealing with scientific relative subjects but also empower you to think the daily life things in a different way. I recommend Introduction of probability [1] since it's easy to study and provides great free video lectures [2].

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Dimitri-P-Be...

[2] - https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-012-introduction-to-prob...

Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by jor-el »

Thinking, fast and slow - by Daniel Kahneman

It is a great book and talks about two systems in which we can divide the working of our brain. Kahneman also talks exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-a...

Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by cannonedhamster »

manjana wrote: post #20
pmoriarty wrote: post #7

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca.[1] [1] - https://tripinsurancestore.com/4/on-the-shortness-of-life.pd...

On the genre of Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius has intrigued me for some time. I have yet to read any of Seneca's work though but imagine that it is any bit as much quality(!). I would like to add a candidate for the recommendation on Stoic philosophy - "Meditations by Marcus Aurelius".

Meditations is great. Seneca's letters are better I think.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by yash_8141 »

waitingkuo wrote: post #32

I always think that learning probability can not only help you to gain more intuition when dealing with scientific relative subjects but also empower you to think the daily life things in a different way. I recommend Introduction of probability [1] since it's easy to study and provides great free video lectures [2]. [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Dimitri-P-Be... [2] - https://ocw.mit.edu/resour…

this. I almost completed first book just 2 months ago .Excellent book also do all the exercise.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by cannonedhamster »

jor-el wrote: post #34

Thinking, fast and slow - by Daniel Kahneman It is a great book and talks about two systems in which we can divide the working of our brain. Kahneman also talks exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-a...

This is a great book. It have me a lot to think about and sincerely improved my decision making skills.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

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Post by bemmu »

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out", also by Richard Feynman.

He worked on the Manhattan Project among other things, writes in a very engaging way and shares a huge number of funny anecdotes. Yet he is also thought-provoking, for example introducing the idea of nanotechnology, explains why he is against pompous titles and posing, and how he struggled with staying creative.

Besides funny stories and grand ideas, there's also a heartbreaking personal struggle. One of those books years after reading I find myself randomly thinking about sometimes.

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