If you could recommend ONE book to your 18 year old self, what would it be?

I‘ll start: Discipline is Destiny by RyanHoliday

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

The rational male by rollo tomassi

Put in on my list. Thx

The Fiat Standard by Saifedean Ammous.

All time classic

Anthem, Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand is always the correct answer!

I respect her so much, I only read her works when I’m not drinking.

I first read Anthem when I was 15/16 and it quickly became my one of my favorite books (novellas). Started reading Atlas Shrugged right away.

It’s so powerful and a quick hit…love it.

the one you write about your own life moment by moment, better make it a good one

Phishing for Phools by Robert Shiller

It wouldn't have mattered ... 18-year-old me wouldn't have understood anyway 🤷

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

That book is 🔥

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

🤙

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”

🫂

i think reading hidden repression woulda saved me about ten years of being a commie

Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Anything Ayn Rand is always correct!

🫡 she is something else really

She’s my favorite author, such a great mind.

Why Bitcoin by Mike Hardcastle 😂 😂 😂

Why we sleep by Matthew Walker

The Prince Machiavelli

Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle. Besides that anything Ayn Rand, if I hadn’t read all her fiction books already.

zero to one

Tough to pick just one topic.

I might choose Seneca’s Letters from a stoic.

Good one. My bed time lecture

"Auf versunkenen Wegen" von Sylvain Tesson.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

I realize this is probably an unpopular take here

But I don’t like books

I’m More of a YT type

Atomic Habits

Economics in one lesson.

Jordan Peterson 12 rules for life.

Real Time Relationships by Stefan Molyneux

Free online copy is here: https://freedomain.com/freedomain_books/real-time-relationships-the-logic-of-love/full-text/

The bitcoin standard. Though it did not exist when I was 18. If I had to pick one that existed :

The creature from Jekyll Island

The Daily Stoic 📕

Yea!