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Man search for meaning - I think that most people, at some point in their life face with the big question "What is the purpose of life ?". Author of this book is the one who can handle this huge question because he survived death camps, and noticed what give people will to live. Highly recommended. Flow: Psychology of optimal experience - If you want do double down the concept of Flow (situations where you are so inv…

I read Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning) decades ago and was impressed too. But a year or two ago I learnt more about his story. A reader of that book, which sold millions, would be surprised to learn, for example, that Frankl only spent a few days at Auschwitz, himself performed medical experiments on Jews, or that "in 1978 when attempting to give a lecture at the institute of Adult Jewish Studies in New York, Frankl was confronted with an outburst of boos from the audience and was called a nazi pig". Frankl's biographer wrote "...we know the reality of Auschwitz is that attitude mattered little for survival."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl#Controversy

Re: Books that have affected you and your life the most

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(Speculative) Fiction: "The City and The Stars" by Arthur C. Clarke Nonfiction: "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. The best book on how to communicate. The best part: the book is written in a way that its content sticks to your memory for a very long time thus proving what it preaches.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die sounds really cool...off to order it!

Re: Books that have affected you and your life the most

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- Man search for meaning

- Letters of a Businessman to His Son Paperback - G. Kingsley Ward (Author)

- The Design of the UNIX Operating System

- Horse Sense

- Hemingway farewell to arms

- Save your marriage

- The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America

- On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. DeLorean's - made me never want to work for big company

1000s of books... no time to read or list them all.

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