Jeff Hawkins
ALL of our thoughts and actions are essentially electrical signals… except the underlying circuits have variable resistance. The more we do/think something, the lower we drive the resistance. This book kicked off my practical understanding of neuroscience.
Robert Greene
Do the thing for the sake of doing the thing, not what it’ll get you. Learn who you are, what you’re uniquely driven to do and become singular at that thing.
Oliver Burkemann
Productivity expert discovers productivity is bullshit: you’re just anxious about death. Stop trying to get more done, learn to smell the roses... and wind up getting more done.
Khalil Gibran
“Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Consider your judgement and your appetite as you would two loved guests within your house. Surely you would not honor one above the other, for he who is more mindful of one, loses the love of both.”
Steven Pressfield
Introduces “the resistance”: the reason why creative dreams die…and how to overcome it. This book taught me the creative discipline of making art.
Ayn Rand
What happens when the world is run by consumers and shuns those who produce?
Cixin Liu
How could the world change over the next 500 years? We saw how quickly things changed with COVID, this book helped me imagine the implication of large scale events on the future of society, culture and civilization.
Anthony DeMello
Reco from Naval. Bridge between the emotional and rational minds. "You must choose between your attachment and happiness. You cannot have both.”
James Allen
You are what you believe you are. ”Inspect and cultivate the garden of the mind, if not weed seeds may take root.“