Musashi's book of five rings
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Read on Hacker News…especially for anyone who was bright at young age but questioned a hell of a lot of society's rules. Amazon (no affiliate B.S., just a great book): http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770019572
Read on Hacker News…nderstanding for everything. - Perceive those things which cannot be seen. - Pay attention even to trifles. - Do nothing which is of no use. -- A translation of Miyomoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings ( http://samurai.com/5rings/ground/ )
Read on Hacker NewsBrilliant. Double up-vote (if I could) on Musashi's Book of Five Rings.
Read on Hacker News1) Musashi's Book of Five Rings 2) Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People 3) Machaivelli's The Prince 4) Sun-Tzu's The Art of War 5) Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action 6) Steven Johnson's Emergence 7) Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel 8) Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything 9) Mark Buchanan's Nexus 10) C. S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain Taken together, these books cover just about everything there is to know about the sciences, about human history, human nature and how to understand and communicate effectively with other people. Only one other book besides these needs to be studied/read: The Bible.
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