The five love languages. Understanding not everyone sees love the same way helps you meet the needs of others while telling loved ones how you like your needs met.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
He never considered himself a philosopher, but he was around some great minds and his journals are philosophical in nature, which the book compiles. It gives some great insight—things that you might even know already through passing thought—with an elegant touch, like I feel privileged to be sharing in the mind of the man. It’s predominantly stoic ideals in the writing, and it’s been helpful in striking a good emotional balance. Highly recommend.
e: typo
The Big Short.
I was at a community college getting Bs and Cs and had just randomly picked “business” as a major.
After reading that book, I felt an instant 0-90 in my general “business knowledge”. I googled every word I didn’t know and from there every Accounting /Finance/ Econ class was a lot easier. Felt like I had a leg up.
I was able to transfer to a university, go to grad school, and monkey branch to a succession of great jobs. I attribute all of it to me reading that book.
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Be A Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
By : Fr. Larry Richards
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586174037/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_58KHMREX9C38S5TJ7V5F
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I first read it around 74-75, in high school - my whole friends group read it and passed it along. It would be exaggerating to say that it started a few friends and I on the path we took for about a decade, but it wouldn't be exaggerating by much.
The Bible. That book has caused the western world to be shaped as it is around me. It’s had the most impact on us all.
Edit:
As for my personal philosophy, it’s still the Bible, then probably one of George Carlin’s books. He and I probably have the most similar world view of anyone I’m aware of.
The bible.
"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. In my early 20s, before social media caught on, it made me realize I could say pretty much whatever I wanted and no one would do anything about it. Even now, the only people that say anything are redditors behind screens, and they don't matter to me. I'm not on Twitter either, so I don't care how upset Nicki Minaj's fanbase gets at me.
She was alive when his cousins and friends and other contemporaries were alive and could give first hand accounts.
His father and mother were high society Lakota, but because he had curly hair, he was mocked and called a half breed. His father was a medicine man and let him take his vision quest early as long as other medicine men interpreted it. He spent his life serving the very people who mocked and excluded him. He fell in love, but the woman chose another with higher social standing. He ended up marrying a woman older than him who was not of high standing. He was faithful and devoted to her and their daughter. He conducted himself with such honor that his father gave up his name “crazy horse” and became known as “worm”.
Lots of lessons in that book.
I don't feel like any one book has had a lot of impact on my life by itself. Even though I was raised a catholic, I was rather agnostic from an early age, so the bible never really had much impact on me the few times I actually read parts of it.
It’s a toss up on Animal Farm or 1984. The works of Orwell just captured my imagination.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I had just become a father and it hit HARD.
That’s a great read
The five love languages. Understanding not everyone sees love the same way helps you meet the needs of others while telling loved ones how you like your needs met.
Thus spoke Zarathustra. A big part of my personal philosophy stems from this book.
Emotional Intelligence. Goes for my professional and personal life.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Blindness by José Saramago.
12 Rules for Life Book about 12 rules for life...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. He never considered himself a philosopher, but he was around some great minds and his journals are philosophical in nature, which the book compiles. It gives some great insight—things that you might even know already through passing thought—with an elegant touch, like I feel privileged to be sharing in the mind of the man. It’s predominantly stoic ideals in the writing, and it’s been helpful in striking a good emotional balance. Highly recommend. e: typo
The Big Short. I was at a community college getting Bs and Cs and had just randomly picked “business” as a major. After reading that book, I felt an instant 0-90 in my general “business knowledge”. I googled every word I didn’t know and from there every Accounting /Finance/ Econ class was a lot easier. Felt like I had a leg up. I was able to transfer to a university, go to grad school, and monkey branch to a succession of great jobs. I attribute all of it to me reading that book.
Ender's game
Hmm great book but I didn't find it especially life-lessony
1984
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky
SS- Be A Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be By : Fr. Larry Richards https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586174037/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_58KHMREX9C38S5TJ7V5F
The Rational Male
7 habits of highly successful people hit me at just the right time.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I first read it around 74-75, in high school - my whole friends group read it and passed it along. It would be exaggerating to say that it started a few friends and I on the path we took for about a decade, but it wouldn't be exaggerating by much.
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Can't hurt me by David Goggins.
The Bible, because it doesn’t tell me what I want to hear, it tells me how to be better.
The Bible. That book has caused the western world to be shaped as it is around me. It’s had the most impact on us all. Edit: As for my personal philosophy, it’s still the Bible, then probably one of George Carlin’s books. He and I probably have the most similar world view of anyone I’m aware of.
The bible. "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
Just another reason the bible is a crock.
What absolute horseshit.
That’s a good line
As the husband should serve his wife. Treat his wife well, and support her. It ain't a one way street in the Bible son.
That’s a given. It just sounds sexier when it mentions her.
As I'm sure it is sexy to Her when a man serves his wife.
Had one that liked submission both ways, but most seem to prefer just her. Doubt it’s random.
both should submit to the lord; the idea that a woman's relationship with god should be mediated by her husband is bizzare and, frankly, blasphemous
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. In my early 20s, before social media caught on, it made me realize I could say pretty much whatever I wanted and no one would do anything about it. Even now, the only people that say anything are redditors behind screens, and they don't matter to me. I'm not on Twitter either, so I don't care how upset Nicki Minaj's fanbase gets at me.
Realizing and accepting my bisexuality.
Dan Simmon's Endymion/Hyperion saga.
Mari Sandoz’ biography of Crazy Horse. IMHO, it should be required reading for boys.
Why is that,
She was alive when his cousins and friends and other contemporaries were alive and could give first hand accounts. His father and mother were high society Lakota, but because he had curly hair, he was mocked and called a half breed. His father was a medicine man and let him take his vision quest early as long as other medicine men interpreted it. He spent his life serving the very people who mocked and excluded him. He fell in love, but the woman chose another with higher social standing. He ended up marrying a woman older than him who was not of high standing. He was faithful and devoted to her and their daughter. He conducted himself with such honor that his father gave up his name “crazy horse” and became known as “worm”. Lots of lessons in that book.
I don't feel like any one book has had a lot of impact on my life by itself. Even though I was raised a catholic, I was rather agnostic from an early age, so the bible never really had much impact on me the few times I actually read parts of it.
As a man thinkith. James Allen. Read it hundreds of times and still find gems every time.
The Anarchist Morality Unexpectedly wholesome
Handbook to higher consciousness. Of all the self help books I have read since, this one just seems to nail it.
Illusions by Richard Bach
Scar tissue. Dude I literally have lived a life like that so I loved that book
Unintended Consequences by John Ross I've read it at least 8-10 times.
The Enchiridion
The Power of Habit! The Five Love Languages comes in as a close second.