Yup

i'll check it out

Incredible book

Kafka on the shore

The Brothers Karamazov

lol I don't really read stuff id consider life changing like that 🤔🤔

I read like stuff about econ, finance or tech

I remember reading Siddhartha & 1984 in HS those were the last books I read that made me think a lot life

Facts after reading that book I realized I never needed to read another self help book. I would recommend anyone who is struggling mentally or feels a slight dissatisfied with their life.

I thought to myself the most shameful thing in life, is that you don't get hurt enough, so that there isn't enough pain to change, but just enough to live out your life in discomfort.

one of these

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
Deficit Myth
Das Kapital

The Richest Man in Babylon (easy read)
How To Fail at Almost Everything (easy read)
The Daily Trading Coach (hard read)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (hard read)

A classic but I’ve heard good things about Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

I revisit This Is Water by DFW almost yearly and it always keeps me centered. More of an essay than a book but still

All these self help books are just reworded bible passages

man i got like halfway through "thinking, fast & slow" and put it down, haven't thought about it in a minute. might pick it up after i finish what im reading rn.

Lost Connections - Johan Hari
The Resilience Project - Hugh van Cuylenburg
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Atomic Habits - James Clear

And for finance, The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape. Geared towards Australians though

never split the difference (highly, highly recommend)

tao te ching

be here now

honorable mention: teejayx6 method bible

What about this book interested you? I can't read it for long without putting it down to pick up something else.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

it's one of the books that taught me how to write.

honestly i loved the story the first time i read it, but that's the kind of books i like. however i understood alot about the industry and creating works of art.

the second time i read it i learned about writing a story and putting narrative together.

i used to re write the words out of the book in a notebook line for line and understood narrative that way.

take it one chapter at a time and live on it. it's not something you read to finish. you read it to imagine.

magical realism.

shoutout the tao, if you read that go read hagakure.

Umberto Ecco - The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana

What changed in you?

more understanding of where i was at that time period. for me at the time i read this book i was trying to reconnect with alot of my past s*** i had forgot about. try to figure out people I've known in my family.

this one was personal. however as far as imagery just read the book this one will hit everybody different especially the ending.

In recent years the books that have been most impactful in shaping my views have been Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy' and of course 'The Prince'.

In a weird way I also think reading John Stuart Mill's essay 'Utilitarianism' set the ground work for me, because it (along with some other things) convinced me that a lot of moral philosophy is just circular nonsense, which made Machiavelli's unabashed consequentialism more appealing.