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Over the past year I have really got into audiobooks especially anything on self development or changing in thinking, if I am doing repetitive tasks or on the train I find them great. My list of good listens:
The Miracle Morning
Big Magic
Mindfulness for Creativitity
The 4-Hour Work Week
Making Ideas Happen
Be Brilliant Every Day
Screw It, Let's Do ItAny recommendations from other people?
- detritus-1
Stop.
- detritus0
The only thing a self-help book can ever really tell you is the title of the last one you've listed — "Screw It, Let's Do It" — Also paraphrased by a certain famous sportswear company.
- If you need a book to encourage you, you've already lost.detritus
- I wish that applied to religions too...detritus
- My only advice is "Don't talk about something 'til you've started it" as admission is part way to actualisation, so shut up and Just Do It. :)detritus
- i think the so called self help is more of a comparison of techniques. most people know what works from them but books like this are more about ideas. not mentyurimon
- to adapt everything you hear. you never know what you hear that can inspire or look at something different.yurimon
- microkorg1
Get some Chinese learning audio books.
- elahon1
The Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry, excellent series, brilliant narration.
http://www.audible.com/pd/Fictio…
http://www.audible.com/pd/Myster…
http://www.audible.com/pd/Myster…
http://www.audible.com/pd/Myster…
http://www.audible.com/pd/Myster…
http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi…
- eryx0
- Never seen "great course" series thanks!sublocked
- I suggest the history of Egypt one first. professor Bob Brier tells and amazing story, really good lecturer. It was the one that got me hookederyx
- Thanks for this too - I'm going to sign up to their free month trial. Their offering's are not as cheap as I'd like, but then I am very cheap.detritus
- sublocked0
My last few audible books...
Mastery - Robert Greene
http://amzn.to/1OuDk7PMan's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
http://amzn.to/1sJSwDWThe Power of Habit
http://amzn.to/1sJSBYp
- jagara0
Self-help is satirized genre. And rightfully so - lots of quick-fix garbage on that bookshelf. I think a lot of people associate them with pathetic navelgazing and overanalysing. Because in the end, you're the only one who can decide to change.
But if you do make that decision, the example of others (in book form, among others) can be immensely helpful. I know i have benefitted more than a little from them.
So don't write 'em all off.
- *is a very satirized...jagara
- Mm, fair enough, but personally I'd rather eryx's route which is just learning 'general stuff' and making my own conclusions therein.detritus
- *thereof?detritus
- I really think everyone can benefit from the deceptive mind: A scientific guide to critical thinking Before reading any self help books.eryx
- sublocked0
While we're here...fuck the "4 Hour Work Week". I hate that book. (the author of that) Tim Ferriss' podcast occasionally has some gems though. Worth a listen.
- sublocked0
...and to clarify before anyone asks. I hate it because of the idea that somehow everyone should be able to "hack" their way into a profitable business. The idea that it only should take 4 hours to run said business.
That's not real value creation. It's no better than a get rich quick scheme.
- jagara0
@sunblocked
Yeah, T4HWW is like 50% filler, and a good 20% wild, semi-unsubstantiated claims. I can see why people hate on Tim Ferriss. At first glance, he seems like a total charlatan.
And then there are the 30% really interesting points. The guy is intelligent, make no mistake. He would'nt be where he is (and have stayed there) if that wasn't the case.
For me, it's more about his way of thinking that i find fascinating. The experiments, the obsessive trial and error. He makes a point of thinking very differently. And he has fun doing it.
Try and read the first few chapters of The 4-Hour Chef (get a free sample on Ibooks, it contains the first chapters). I find a lot here that is very usable on a day to day basis, when it comes to learning a skill.
If nothing else, he's very entertaining.
- Yeah it has some gems and he's definitely smarter and more successful than I am. Can't hate on that @ all.sublocked
- eryx0
Just got though a very difficult book.
Radium Girls - Kate Moore
it was hear wrenching, puts a lot into perspective about work place safety to say the least.
before that it was
Skunk Works - Leo Janos and Ben R. Rich
One of the coolest books on industrial history. How they built supersonic stealth fighters. I can't believe the shit they were doing in the 50's and 60's
Failure is not an Option - Gene Kranz
A biography about the guy who was leading mission control during the Apollo missions.
I am running out of these types of books so any suggestions would be very helpful.
right now I am indulging in some scifi fluff with
The Expeditionary Force series - Craig Alanson
I was literally laughing my ass off and I just finished book 1.