Books Highlight #3: Mindset & Self-grow Books Recommendation (Feb 2022)
A list of book recommendations in mindset, thinking, and self-grow genres
These are books from my 2021-now reading list in self-grow and mindset categories that I strongly recommend.
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1. The Laws of Human Nature – Robert Greene
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“You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you want to see, depending on your mood, and this disconnect from reality is the source of the bad decisions and negative patterns that haunt your life. Rationality is the ability to counteract these emotional effects, to think instead of reacting, to open your mind to what is really happening, as opposed to what you are feeling. It does not come naturally; it is a power we must cultivate, but in doing so we realize our greatest potential.”
This book discusses the motivation that drives human thinking flow and actions. I love the way this book categorizes each type of motivation, gives examples from famous cases, and analyzes them. This book will teach us about self-detachment from our own emotions, allow us to step out of our shells to observe and analyze our own gestures and thinking flows. With the understandable language and intriguing examples, this book is a great guide for understanding empathy, self-control, and reading into other people’s moves.
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The nicest part about getting older is knowing how your life worked out, especially if you like what you wake up to every day.
This book has been a good friend to me since I encountered the very first quarter-life crisis. One thing that fascinates me most is that this book provides me another aspect of "identity crisis": making identity capital from the identity crisis. The author, Dr. Meg Jay, is a clinical psychologist, hence, this book is not only about shallow statements about the youth, but provides multiple aspects from a psychological perspective. There is also sharing from other psychologists, sociologists, neurologists, reproductive specialists, human resources executives, and economists about the unique personality development and potentials of twentysomethings.
3. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity - Ryan Holiday
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“Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don’t control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing.”
This book has 366 small Stoic lessons for every day in a year. As it does not provide root knowledge of Stoicism but also the instant knowledge from the Stoic lessons, I recommend this book for daily practice or a 5-minute-journal. These lessons would help readers develop a Stoic mindset day by day via writing meditation. I have tried it for these past few months and it works!
4. The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You - Scott E. Page
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“Mastery of models improves your ability to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.”
I heard about this book when enrolled in the course "Model Thinking" on Coursera that is taught by Dr. Page as well (also a highly recommended course for those who want to dig deep into statistical thinking, organizing data, or levering up logical skills). I read this book as a reference for a better understanding of the course. The book provides us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models (starts from linear regression to many advanced ones). The target of the book is to guide readers to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, have more accurate predictions and designs. This book is recommended for those who want to develop their logical/ mathematical/ statistical thinking, those who work in business intelligence, analytics, or anyone who wants to have a better and clearer mindset, as well as the ability to apply data and analytics.
5. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
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The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them.
This book emphasizes the importance of the process - the consistency and tiny teeny bits of work, not the glorious goal that contributes to success. This book provides a practical and inspirational guide to acquire consistent good habits and to ditch the bad ones. What I love about the book is that it divides the process into discrete steps that could be followed easily (instead of rambling around like some other self-help books) and it provides the psychological motives behind the habits. This is an easy but helpful book to read.
6. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams - Deepark Chopra
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Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive of worthy goals. With the knowledge and practice of spiritual law, we put ourselves in harmony with nature and create with carefulness, joy, and love.
This is one of my go-to spiritual books. This book is short, easy to read but contains deep meaning to meditate on. Whenever reading this book, I feel like I'm meditating on every word. Albeit simply written, this book has changed many of my perspectives about life. After reading this book did I realize how "reactive" I was when facing uncomfortable events and how I should have responded to such. This book guides me to see the broader and wider scope of life, reminds me that life is a flow of events, the earth is just a pale blue dot in the universe and we're just butterflies who flutter for a day and thinks it is forever.
7. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
A modern non-fiction classic, I suppose. This book engages me in the 2-system thinking of humans, lets me understand how intuitive thinking and critical thinking work. This book provides a list of heuristic biases that we human encounters every day and helps us to detect as well as avoid being manipulated by them. If you are interested in the book, you can enroll in some courses about critical thinking or social psychology (personally I recommend this "Social Psychology" course on Coursera). I bet it helps you to dig deeper and apply further!
Hope my book list would help you (づ￣ 3￣)づ
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