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Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

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Post by smidge »

sivers wrote: post #2

Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…

I found your site through Ferriss' podcast and have been using that list for a while. It's a gold mine, thanks for sharing it!

Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

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Post by psto »

thisisit wrote: post #9

Slight OT, I had two questions: a. how do you guys apply the stuff you read? b. How many re-reads helps you get most out of the book? I am on a recent reading spree and as I read the books I keep forgetting the lessons therein. While I have set of highlights, using Play Books and Google docs combo, one thing I found was that 2nd read seems to be better than the first one.

I use Paul Graham's advice from his "How You Know" essay http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html

"Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists."

Also check out It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/its-okay-to-forget-w...

Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

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Post by daryllxd »

Nice. I've read a bunch of books and I'm also looking to make something like this. Just a question: I'm not an American, how does copyright work for things like this? Can I write something like a "10 things I learned from " with a few (like < 20) lines copied (or should I paraphrase it?) from the book?

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Post by mark_l_watson »

sivers wrote: post #2

Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recommend the ones at the top of the list. #2 : These aren't summaries of the book! These are just the little points that I personally found surprising or inspiring. If a book wasn't surprisin…

Thanks for the great list Derek. I just bought Ego is the Enemy - I live by the same author's Daily Stoic book, so I am looking forward to this one as well.

I am an aspiring writer (I have written about 20 books, some of them are pretty good). I am addicted to writing and your book Anything You Want helped me understand what I needed to work on. Thanks again!

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Post by nexfitter »

I have a lot of books that get suggested to me that are on your list, on topics like Stoicism and Self-help, but I ignore most of them. Many feel like reading them would just be rehashes of early books I have read on the topic with nothing new to contribute.

I like that your approach was to actually read these anyways, most of the time you rate them low because there was nothing new, gives me an idea of what to avoid. Thanks for posting the list!

Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

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Post by byproxy »

thisisit wrote: post #9

Slight OT, I had two questions: a. how do you guys apply the stuff you read? b. How many re-reads helps you get most out of the book? I am on a recent reading spree and as I read the books I keep forgetting the lessons therein. While I have set of highlights, using Play Books and Google docs combo, one thing I found was that 2nd read seems to be better than the first one.

I tend to remember a general evoked feeling from waht I've read rather than the details of each "wow" moment. If I remember a book having some profoind effect, it's worth reading again sometime down the line.

Re: Derek Sivers: Books I've Read

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Post by dash2 »

I would not recommend this as a book list. There is just one book here written before about the year 2000. If you are not reading a regular amount of classics, you are doomed to be historically parochial.

Some people will love these books. If you are not already in that category, I would urge you not to go there. Pop social science and business self-help books are like chocolate - healthy in small doses, as part of a balanced diet.

Sorry to be a nabob of negativism.

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