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What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably?
What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price.
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Alan Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking Because I quit and it honestly wasn’t anywhere near as hard as I thought it would be. Celebrating 8 years no smoking in March and was a 20 year smoker 😁
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Economic Facts & Fallacies by @ThomasSowell completely changed my life. I was in middle school and had read Hayek / Friedman / Hazlitt but no one wrote as clearly and powerfully as Sowell IMHO. That book made me want to begin learning for myself in my own time.
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America Before deepened my appreciation for human history.
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Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning . Although it did kinda cause me to ‘lose my mind’ after I read it and had to grapple with some sad realities of the world, holocaust, & human nature. Has changed my perspective in immensely positive way in the long term tho
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macro perspective on History
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Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski. Essentially teaches you to distinguish between mental abstractions and the real world, how to properly think of the real world, and how to use internal representations and external language to stay reality-connected. See General Semantics.
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