What are books that changed your life?
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The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
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Broken Money.
Have been reading a book a week ever since.
There were a lot of books that were informative or changed my mind on certain topics, but for what changed my life the most I'd have to say "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
Actually putting what that book taught me in practice really did change my life for the better. First I got all the day to day stuff organized, but the really cool part was what happened after that: I started being much more stoic about "stuff" in general, and way more strategic about what I want.
basic answer but The Bitcoin Standard really does stand so far above the rest for me
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Aparição - Vergílio Ferreira
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Aparição
Aparição é um romance de Vergílio Ferreira que discute …
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Bitcoin: Separation of Money and State
These are the books that just came to mind.
"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot
"The Awakening of Intelligence" by Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
"Mastery" by Robert Greene
And of course, the Bitcoiner classics:
"The Sovereign Individual" by William Rees-Mogg, James Dale Davidson
"The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin
"The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe
"The Price of Tomorrow" by @Jeff Booth
"The Bitcoin Standard" by @Saifedean Ammous
The Greatness of the Kingdom by Alva McLain
Lots of books changed my life.
But Atlas Shrugged was THE book that ENTIRELY changed my life.
I re-read it every year on January 1st (for 14 years now) as a gift to myself and to re-orient my moral compass.
I find something new every time.
By far one of the most remarkable books I've read, it has truly sparked a change in my thinking.
the Way of the peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
Sometimes it hits me really hard with how many interesting people are on the nostr already.
It seems like organic growth with little hype.
Many of the books already listed here.
One that I did not see mentioned was The Anarchist Handbook - Michael Malice
A collection of essays that gives you a good taste of different breeds of anarchism from different time periods.
The Bible. and The Bitcoin Standard
Atlas Shrugged & 1984
¿Qué libros han cambiado tu vida? 📚
Los míos:
- La rebelión de Atlas de Ayn Rand
- 1984 de George Orwell
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1) 1984 by Orwell was a pivot point back in school
2) The Power of Now by Tolle gave me a path to set towards
3) Democracy by Hoppe made me understand why government by force sucks balls
4) Siddharta by Hesse is just beautifully written
Honourable mentions: 21 Lessons by Gigi, Doors of perception by Huxley and Die Welt von Gestern by Stefan Zweig
25 Stories I would tell my Younger Self
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naomi klein - the shock doctrine
The Morning of the Magicians - Book by Jacques Bergier and Louis
Pauwels - this is NOT a fantasy book but more a fact based histoiry of some things about mankind that not many people talk about... opened my eyes WIDE
Brave New World
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
BTC Standard
Luuurking… also HHGTTG
Plato's #book, The Phaedo. I worked hard on that book in high school and that's why I took up #philosophy.
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Mastering Bitcoin
1. Mystery of Capitol by De Soto fundamental changed how I view the world.
2. Book of Job changed how I viewed tough times in life
3. Knowing God by J I Packer also changed my who life from the ground up
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy changed my taste in story telling when I was young.
5. Mere Christianity by c s Lewis had a huge impact on myself at the time I read it.
first 5 that came to mind!
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Best book on persuasion out there and it’s not even close.
Absolutely
Some faves from recent years
- Atlas Shrugged
- Bitcoin Standard
- Principles of Economics
- Breathe: a life in flow
- Mystery of Capital
the bible, the Lord of the rings, toilers of the sea, 12 rules for life
Atlas Shrugged
Tao Te Ching
Finite and Infinite Games
The Brothers Karamazov
Slaughterhouse Five
Man’s Search for Meaning
Moby-Dick
Blood Meridian
Lolita
The Book Thief
East of Eden
The Stranger
Life of Pi
It was on fire when i lay down on it.
- it helped me to find energy to live and move on
1984
The courage to be disliked.
7 habits of highly effective people
Thinking fast and slow
Fastlane millionaire
How to win friends and influence people on
all of them.. they don't always change your life for the good though. Infact, they just offer perspective. It's up to you to use your own brain to critically think about the point that's being made. Every single book changes your world view. Therfore every single book changes your life. Probably. 
La tabla rasa de Steve Pinker
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
You too eh? That book taught me more about patience and observation of my world than any other book.
Catch 22
You can reach the top - Zig Ziglar
Character Building by Booker T Washington
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Yeah
Maybe cause it was also an amazing time when I was younger and traveling the world. I think he has some interesting philosophy like romantics and .... (Can't remember, but more structured people).
The sequel Lola was also great.
Honor Thy Father is a 1971 book by Gay Talese, about the travails of the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s, especially Salvatore Bonanno and his father Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno.
It seems the book hit us at the same age. I can remember reading it on “our last family vacation” and thinking the freedom the author had still had physical limits but it was enjoyed as ones life should be.
Also Sequel? Interesting.
Jesus from Holy Bible
"Psychologie der Massen" von Gustave LeBon.
Similar stuff, but on a boat instead of the motorbike
So an anti bitcion stance got it lol
The Power Broker by Robert A Caro, really gave me insight into how the world works. A stunning read. Probably my favourite book of all time.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, all the evils of socialism laid bare.
Mastering Bitcoin
‘Changed’ interpreted as shaped or formed
*“Bible Old Testament”*
*“Bible New Testament”*
*“On Liberty” - John Stuart Mill*
“Euthyphro” - Plato
“Meditations of First Philosophy” - Rene Descartes
“Critique of Pure Reason” - Immanuel Kant
*“Fear and Trembling” - Kierkegaard*
“Repetition” - Kierkegaard
*“Economics textbooks”*
“Ethics” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Probably others
Significance in *this*
#bookstr #books #grownostr
I'm sure they all change me in some respect, but two recent books come to mind that have changed my perspective on life somewhat
* How to Know a Person - David Brooks (becoming better at understanding people and relationships)
* Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman (time is the most scarce resource)
Bible: saved my soul, made me a better person and improved my relationships.
Facebook: sapped my soul, made me a narcissist and killed my marriage.
Beyond Good & Evil - Nietzsche
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
All of Frank Herbert’s Dune books
Fear and loathing in las vegas
The Creature from Jekyl Island by G Edward Griffin
The Sovereign Individual
The Bitcoin Standard
Philosophy:
Lao Tzu - Dao de Ching
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (I was first influenced by Rand's fiction which is good to get a sense of her spirit, especially Anthem which is concise, but for a non-fiction treatment I think Peikoff best)
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but ignore his baseless protests to reject the moral implications of his scientific work and his pleas to retain Christian morality)
Language:
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Investing:
Ben Graham - The Intelligent Investor
Jim Rogers - Hot Commodities
Money & Banking:
G. Edward Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island (among many others, but this was first)
Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury by E. Michael Jones
TAO...TE...CHING
The Bitcoin Standard
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl
It will help alleviate your depression.
Endlich Nichtraucher von Allen Carr
How to win friends and influence people.
These books changed everyone's lives, whether they know it or not:
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
Elements of Algebra
Hans Hoppe: Democracy the God that Failed. Mises: Socialism
The Gospel.
Tell us more. How has it changed your life?
I like your list. How has Kierkegaard influenced you?
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Atlas Shrugged by Rand. First read it when I was 14...
The RA Material, Law of One
The Bitcoin Standard
Think and Grow Rich
The Law of Success
Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Willson
Other than BTC/libertarian books:
1. The Betrothed (Manzoni), any time you read it is different
2. Der Zauberberg (Mann), read it while in a hospital bed, perfect place for that book
3. Divine Comedy (Dante), tough to read even for Italians, but you can find in it anything about human nature
The Last Lecture. I read it twice, which is a rare occurrence. Could easily pick it up again.
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Good book, & the movie is actually pretty decent too.
The Bible.
The Alchemist. That said it’s about time to reread it
By Paulo Coelho
I also re-read Atlas fairly regularly (I lost count somewhere beyond 20 times). There is always something to get out of that book.
Gulag Archipelago is an amazing read too. With Gulag the abridged version is actually much better, they mostly just organize the book & they include explainations of what is cut out & where to find it.
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Alcoholics Anonymous
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
I tend to absorb life-changing thought through fiction more readily than self-help 🤷♀️
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Rich dad poor dad
1984
Bullish case for bitcoin(my orange pill)
The bitcoin standard
Broken Money by @Lyn Alden. As a uni student in the beginning of my life, this made me understand an immensely complex but oh so important monetary system, along with the weaknesses and possible solution.
So following Kant and Descartes I was left with the limits of what can be known and understood by reason and experience from the senses. What I got out of Kierkegaard was what you do with yourself in that state. Without verifiable deductive proof and with imperfect senses, uncertainty permeates everything. And that’s just it. That’s the state you live in. You exist, you can’t know much more, and there is no fool proof way out to anything else. For a young, very too much, rational person as I was at the time, the obliteration of logic as “the path” to truth was disruptive. Kierkegaards embrace of the aesthetic, and the “leap of faith”, based on nothing more than will and the generation of passion to live according to a choice despite there being no proof for it and the absurdity you will confront in it was important in maturing myself beyond the purely logical limited existence I would have tried to live otherwise.
Reality Transurfing - Vadim Zeland
Fit For Life
A Course in Miracles
Born to Run got me started with barefoot running.
21 ways is really good!
Empire Of The Sun
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Baghavat Gita
Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth
Primeiro mergulhando em Platão, deitado na rede, em algumas várias férias. Logo Hegel e mais Hegel, e Platão e mais Platão :)
Nassim Taleb‘s Incerto Series. Especially „Antifragile“.
It eventually got me looking into #Bitcoin again.
Which I find ironic because he is pretty anti bitcoin nowadays 🤷♂️
But it got me thinking: „if the whole financial system is on the brink’s of collapse, could #Bitcoin be the one thing that gets stronger if all else fails?“
And the journey into the rabbit hole began. Slowly at first, of course. Then I didn’t fing my way back out :)
My tranformation started with - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
The Power of Bad by John Tierney & Roy Baumeister
Manifesto by Mike Busch
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
- changed my mental model for marriage
The Power of Bad by John Tierney & Roy Baumeister
- I quit poker despite being profitable after realizing I was turning into an ass
Manifesto by Mike Busch
- gave me the framework to buy an airplane
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
- fundamental in my coming to Christ
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Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
The Power of Bad by John Tierney & Roy Baumeister
Manifesto by Mike Busch
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
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The bible
Biopiracy - vandana shiva
Killers of the flower moon - david grann.
Passage to India - e m forester
A long way gone - ishmael beah
Pedagogy of the oppressed- paulo freire
Last chance to see - mark cawardine douglas adams
Three body problem - cixie liu
A wrinkle in time - lengle madeleine
Band aid for a broken leg - daimiam brown
Medium is the message - marshall mcluhan
Small is beautiful - e f schumacher
Brave new world - aldous huxley
Em and the big hoom - jerry pinto
Flowers for algernon - daniel keyes
Fountainhead
Walden
Calvin and hobbes
Hitchhikers guide
The god of small things - arundhati roy
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
- FIAT Food by Matthew Lysiak
why we sleep is probably the most impactful book i’ve come across for health and performance improvement.
any non-fiction as the fifth pick on your list?
Thanks to your recommendation, I just finished ALOWM, which made me purchase the bible.
Let's see were that leads me to... (no spoilers, please!)
Here are some absolute masterpieces that have left a lasting impression on me:
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Stoner by John Williams
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Confessions by Jaume Cabré
- A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski
- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Nice!
What do you think about A Lodging of Wayfaring Men?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Development as Freedom
Freedom from the Known
Nonviolent Communication
Siddharta
Man's Search for Meaning
Atlas Shrugged
The Untethered Soul
Consciousness Medicine
Anna Karenina
The Drowned and the Saved
Madness and Civilization
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Principles
Let My People Go Surfing
Just added this to my book buying list!
Los 7 habitos de la gente altamente efectiva. De Dr. Stephen Covey.
El Santo, El Surfista y el ejecutivo. De Robin Sharma.
Y la enciclopedia Deusto de Empresa.
The description for Cracking the Code sounds like a cancerous justification for more govt & more theft, what benefit does that one have?
Bible
Reality Revealed
Creature From Jekyll island
Gods Day Of Judgement
Brave New World
Morals And Dogma
Tragedy and Hope