Books @lemmy.world reksas @sopuli.xyz 5mo ago

best learning books you know

Hey

What most useful guidebooks or other information focused books do you know?

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- That was the one I was going to mention as well.
I think it makes a big difference what you're trying to learn about. I'm not sure everyone would get the same benefit from every educational book.
- Its relatively easy to find books about topics you are trying to learn as you know what you are looking for. Reason I'm asking here is to find new ideas. It doesnt matter what people suggest as long as its something they themselves find useful.
  
  What happend to you? By Oprah Winfrey
  Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  
  I think those two books changed my life the most.
I have a few to consider.

ADHD: How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe

Thinking: Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Career Management: Expect to Win by Carla A. Harris

Storytelling: Storyworthy by Mathew Dicks

Design (I use it for system design, but product design too): The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

Strategy: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

How to get yourself to do stuff: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Risk management: An Economist Walks Into a Brothel by Allison Schrager

Hiring: Effective Hiring Manager by Mark Horstman

Systems theory: Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

How life really works: Fooled by Randomness Nassim by Nicholas Taleb

Thinking: You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney

Skepticism: The Skeptics Guide to the Universe by Steve Novella, Bob Novella

There are tons more I love but I hope you find at least one thing to try here.
How to solve it by G. Polya - I didn't read it but it's on my plan to read list.
I'm weird and I study U.S. intellectual property law for fun and this free textbook is awesome. I've got the previous edition printed on dead trees and even the print edition was only $40, which is ridiculously cheap for a college textbook.
I don't know nothin' 'bout no learnin' books. But if I did, I would recommend Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
- This is the most cliché, and yet it totally changed my life and perspective. I would stick with the original book. The remakes just aren't the same in my opinion.
  
  It's a great book. The message is pretty much: Be Real af.
Back to Basics by Abigail R. Gehring

For learning how to do the things most of us were never given the opportunity to learn.

Keys to Good Cooking by Harold McGee

For learning how and why to cook things a certain way.
Also very cliché, and likely not a true story, but Rich Dad, poor Dad really changed my perspective.

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