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Best nonfiction book you’ve ever read?

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Best nonfiction book you’ve ever read? 📚 Ideally it taught you something meaningful that you still think about often! (I tend to just stick to autobiographies,...

Best nonfiction book you’ve ever read? 📚 Ideally it taught you something meaningful that you still think about often! (I tend to just stick to autobiographies, psych/human performance books, & romance novels but looking to diversify)

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Daniel Kahneman
In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary
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1Percent BTC 16 days ago

Thinking Fast and Slow. Gives you more insight each time you re-read and apply the core principles with greater consciousness

Recommended by Kamal | ReaderMentality and Chirag Malik
Book Sep 15, 2020
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
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    Eric Jorgenson
Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What
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Kamal | ReaderMentality 17 days ago

The best one for me is “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant” This book is a 💎. All the tweets, podcasts, interviews and wisdom of Naval packed in a single book. Truly a must read for everyone

Chirag Malik 16 days ago

There are a lot of books that taught me different things in different phrases of my life. Top 5 at the top of mind rn: 1. The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant 2. The Laws of human nature 3. The Daily Stoic 4. Atomic Habits 5. The Compound Effect Again there are lot of others as well

Recommended by Greg Lukianoff and Ryan Lazarus
Book Jan 28, 2014
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the
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Greg Lukianoff 16 days ago

Also a big fan of Antifragile and Righteous Mind.

Recommended by Greg Lukianoff and Ryan Lazarus
Book Mar 13, 2012
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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    Jonathan Haidt
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual
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Greg Lukianoff 16 days ago

Also a big fan of Antifragile and Righteous Mind.

Recommended by Sara Hudgens and Ravi Gummadi
Book Jan 12, 2016
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When Breath Becomes Air
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    Paul Kalanithi
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?' At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a
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Ravi Gummadi 16 days ago

“When Breath Becomes Air” - especially the Epilogue by Lucy

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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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    Joseph Henrich
A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically pecu
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Greg Lukianoff 16 days ago

Big fan of the Weirdest People in the World & @JoHenrich!

Recommended by David J. Whelan and Johann Beukes
Book Apr, 1979
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell,
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David J. Whelan 17 days ago

I always harken back to «Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid». In high school, that book made me think hard like nothing else before or after. Plus, of course, Hofstadter’s Law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

Johann Beukes 17 days ago

Gödel, Escher and Bach. I read it every now and then, just a chapter or two, and then think about what I read for the next year or so. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to say that I am “finished“ with it.

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Book Dec 31, 2013
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Leaders Eat Last
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    Simon Sinek
The highly anticipated follow-up to Simon Sinek’s global bestseller Start with Why Simon Sinek is an optimist, a visionary thinker, and a leader of the cultural revolution of WHY. His second book is the natural extension of Start with Why, expanding his ideas at the organizational level. Determining
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Adesunloye Adeola 16 days ago

Leaders eat last, always look back at the circle of safety

Pascal Bovet 17 days ago

Books that have resonated and influence my leadership style. - The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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Book Oct 21, 2014
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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    Bryan Stevenson
An unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to end mass incarceration in America — from one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgome
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Reshini Premaratne 16 days ago

Just Mercy!! Totally changed the way I approach others & my mindset on compassion in general

Sofia Haq 17 days ago

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson is about the criminal justice system in the US and his experience as an attorney in Alabama. Hands down one of my favorite books.

Recommended by Danielle Long and Sam Lazarus
Book Jun 1, 2021
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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    Clint Smith
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation  Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks-those that are honest about the past and th
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Sam Lazarus 17 days ago

“How the Word Was Passed” is probably the best non-fiction book I’ve read in the last 18 months out of about ~75. Every bit of it was stunning.

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Book Mar 7, 2019
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Invisible Women
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    Caroline Criado Pérez
Invisible Women book. Read 9,472 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic developme...
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Alexa Payton 16 days ago

I think (and talk) about this every day of my life. The title says it all.

vaneezeh siddiqui 16 days ago

Invisible women by Caroline Criado Perez! It’s about data bias in how the world was designed

Recommended by armghan ahmad and Kelsey
Book Apr 14, 2020
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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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    Lulu Miller
A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be cr
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armghan ahmad 16 days ago

Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller. Poignant, soul-searching work exploring the inevitable march towards entropy If you want to assess if you’d like it, listen to the Radiolab episode with the same title as the book —25 min and will encapsulate its energy

Kelsey 17 days ago

Why Fish Don’t Exist by @lmillernpr shaped my brain in a hundred beautiful ways. I love to read and this is in my top 3 of the last decade.

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