What books have you read that changed your life for the better?
Ask HN: Books that changed your life?
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#2Isaac Asimov - Foundation Series : taught me to have no fear 'cause Hari Seldon already figured it all out and I'm gonna be alright.
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#3Non technical - Autobiography of an unknown Indian.
Technical - Little Schemer.
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#4Parenting from the Inside-Out. If you're willing to work your way through it slowly, and do the exercises, it is invaluable. If you just read and understand it intellectually, the benefit is not nearly so great.
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#5The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan.
Corny as it sounds,, that book changed my way of thinking and indeed my life when I was around 18yo.
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#6Leadership: Theory and Practice (Peter Northouse)
The Craft of Research (Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams)
On Writing Well (Zig Ziglar)
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#71984 - turned me from a die hard socialist to a rabid anti authoritarian.
Cosmos - helped me fall in love with Physics, and the sciences.
Tao Teh Ching - If I could tell you how it influenced me, we'd both have the wrong impression.
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#81984 - turned me from a die hard socialist to a rabid anti authoritarian. Cosmos - helped me fall in love with Physics, and the sciences. Tao Teh Ching - If I could tell you how it influenced me, we'd both have the wrong impression.
If you havent read it yet, I'd suggest you to read Huxley's Brave New World, as opposed to 1984.
Given it was written in 1932 it surprisingly exposes present-day concerns.
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#9As improbable as it may sound, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
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#10'The Schopenhauer Cure' and 'When Nietzsche Wept', both by Irvin D. Yalom