Because I'm not that original.
Books I’ve Finished
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science How there is coherence in chaos.
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha How to find instead of search.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence How important emotional health is to physical health.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground How you can live like you are dead.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot How doing the right thing can break you.
Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions How ‘determinism’ and ‘God’s plan’ might be the same.
Frank Herbert, Dune How emotional mastery can aid in navigating conflict.
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis How to value yourself, even if you turn into a bug.
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning How finding your ‘why’ leads to finding ‘how’.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael What it means to be a civilized human as part of mother culture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment How betraying your humanity will destroy you.
Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power How the game of power is played by everyone. So learn it.
Iain Banks, Surface Detail What it means to exist in more than one reality.
Franz Kafka, Struggle How the struggle is moment to moment and ever shifting.
Friederich Nietzsche, God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him How a society without higher purpose and meaning collapses.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist How going after your dreams is the purpose to your life.
Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication How to speak openly with empathy and understanding.
Gino Wickman, Traction How to run a business on an Entrepreneurial Operating System.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises How one generation is replaced by the next; as the sun rises, and comes racing from the other side.
Books I’m in the middle of
Neil Howe and William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
Verne Harnish, Scaling Up
Frederich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
M. Shuman, A Course in Miracles
Other Articles and Essays I loved
Scott Alexander, I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/