What are books that changed your life?
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The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Levels of Energy by Frederick Dodson, Alan Watts Books, The creature from Jekyll Island, 21 Ways by nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a303dstl2
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Extreme Ownership by Jocko ... It's a Navy seal book but the lessons, I applied to my life and it helped me tremendously
Lurking...
Moral Politics by George Lakoff.
Get Lucky: 13 Techniques for Discovering and Taking Advantage of Life’s Good Breaks by Max Gunther.
Bitcoin is Venice
The greatest salesman in the world
This is water
Grit - Angela Duckworth
Jesus on holly bible
bible.com
The Bitcoin Standard , of course
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
The Geometry textbook my folks made me finish in 6 weeks one childhood summer is my villain origin story.
The Bitcoin standard, the fiat standard, the fountainhead, the sovereign individual, deep nutrition, the art of seduction, the value of others.
The Fiat Standard and The Bitcoin Standard. Next one that will maybe affect my understanding of Bitcoin‘s potential is Softwar from J. Lowery.
The gospel of John
Bitcoin Evangelism
Tales of the Neverending
The Bible -- Matthew, 1 John, & James specifically
The Bitcoin Standard
The Law
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Price of Tomorrow
The White Pill
Tolkien (can't pick one)
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei
The Church and the Market by Tom Woods
In no particular order:
- Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
- The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management (Hyrum W. Smith)
- The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas Stanley)
- Essentialism (Greg McKeown)
- The Holy Bible (God et al)
- Free to Focus (Michael Hyatt)
- Soundtracks (Jon Acuff)
- The Legacy Journey (Dave Ramsey)
Supervivir - Carlos Astro
The Holy Bible
The Sovereign Individual
Atlas Shrugged
Fiat Standard
The Sovereign Individual
The Bitcoin Standard
Getting Things Done by David Allen, the original ~2002 edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie). It was an eye opener for me when I had a hard time understanding why and how office culture worked at a previous employer.
Human Action (Mises)
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant)
Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
Apology (Plato)
Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore; The Birch Bark Roll of Woodcraft (Setton)
Not in any particular order.
As cliche as it might be, rich dad poor dad
Atlas shrugged
Ego is the Enemy (R Holiday)
Essentialism (G McKeown)
Shoe Dog (P Knight)
Obstacle is the Way (R Holiday)
Open (A Agassi)
Grit (A Duckworth)
- The dictionary of legal bullshit
- Chrysalis
- The dictators handbook
- The book of five rings
- Art of war
- The Life of Mestre Bimba
- Backyard Pharmacy
- Bridge to Terrabethia
- Hardening a Debian Server
- 5th generation warfare
- Pearl of the Stars
- Demon Sermon on the Mound
Red Rising series
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
:)! 
Broken Money.
Have been reading a book a week ever since.
There were a lot of books that were informative or changed my mind on certain topics, but for what changed my life the most I'd have to say "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
Actually putting what that book taught me in practice really did change my life for the better. First I got all the day to day stuff organized, but the really cool part was what happened after that: I started being much more stoic about "stuff" in general, and way more strategic about what I want.
These books altered or expanded my perspective in a memorable way:
Candide
Seneca’s Epistles
Epictetus’ Handbook
(The Practicing Stoic is a great compilation/guide)
Maxims of La Rochefoucauld
Tao Te Ching (Red Pine translation)
The Portable Nietzsche (Walter Kaufmann translation)
Siddhartha, Demian by Herman Hesse
The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel by Albert Camus
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells
The Unique and Its Property/The Ego and Its Own
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
The Cowboy Havamal
Hayek’s Challenge
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
Economics in One Lesson
The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard
The Bitcoin standard - Saifedean Ammous
The price of tomorrow - Jeff Booth
4th turning - Neil Howe, William Strauss
Softwar by Jason Lowery
Atlas Shrugged
The Beginning of Infinity
✓ Holy Bible
✓ What Has Government Done to Our Money?
✓ Human Action
✓ Thank God for Bitcoin
✓ The Sovereign Individual
✓ The Bitcoin Standard
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basic answer but The Bitcoin Standard really does stand so far above the rest for me
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Dante in the inferno ruined my life 😂
Joseph Campbell gave me ‘permission’ to be my whole self.
The Masks of God
Aparição - Vergílio Ferreira
these ones and a couple more
The description for Cracking the Code sounds like a cancerous justification for more govt & more theft, what benefit does that one have?
The Alchemist, Bitcoin Standard, Project Hail Mary, The Barefoot Investor, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Neuromancer
The Bitcoin standard! This book made dig deeper on the federal reserve
How to win friends & influence people - Dale Carnegie
"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot
"The Awakening of Intelligence" by Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius
"Mastery" by Robert Greene
And of course, the Bitcoiner classics:
"The Sovereign Individual" by William Rees-Mogg, James Dale Davidson
"The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin
"The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe
"The Price of Tomorrow" by nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe
"The Bitcoin Standard" by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The Bible
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
- The Aquinas Catechism by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- O Jardin das Aflições by Olavo de Carvalho
Tao te Ching
Virtue of selfishness (Ayn Rand)
Six pillars of self esteem (it’s actually a truly good book on psychology)
Almanac of naval ravikant
Now I read atlas shrugged and I’d say indeed it changes my life :)
Overall, the books change me, they shape my perspective on the world and myself. It’s my compensation of good intellectual conversation. It influences us :)
The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle.
The Greatness of the Kingdom by Alva McLain
The Passion of the Western Mind
4 Hour Work Week
Outwitting the Devil
Celestine Prophecy
The Millionaire Masterplan
The Fiat Standard
Broken Money
The Creature from Jeckyll Island
Turning Pro
Conversations with God
Living with a SEAL
have been the most influential for me
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Go Rin no Sho by Miyamoto Musashi
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Lots of books changed my life.
But Atlas Shrugged was THE book that ENTIRELY changed my life.
I re-read it every year on January 1st (for 14 years now) as a gift to myself and to re-orient my moral compass.
I find something new every time.
Tell us more. How has it changed your life?
I also re-read Atlas fairly regularly (I lost count somewhere beyond 20 times). There is always something to get out of that book.
Gulag Archipelago is an amazing read too. With Gulag the abridged version is actually much better, they mostly just organize the book & they include explainations of what is cut out & where to find it.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
Decided to go back to school because of it, and that set me on a course of success, ultimately leading me here to your post 🫡
By far one of the most remarkable books I've read, it has truly sparked a change in my thinking.
so many
pretty much everything by nietzsche, dostoyevsky and sartre
sophies world when I was a kid
the tao of physics
celestine prophecy
borges short stories
a few books on ken wilbur's AQAL theory
cien años de soledad
don quixote
pretty much everything by a.huxley, esp island and moksha
the lean startup
rob green 48 laws of power
machiavelli's prince
spinoza's ethics
be here now by ram dass
siddhartha by hesse
many of shakespeare's plays, especially lear, othello
i could go on, but they're a few off the top of my head 🫡
1) The Bible
2) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3) The Bitcoin Standard by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
goosebumps
The Bible
Taught me about how reality can be twisted beyond recognition by the powerful, and in time, become accepted as truth.
Govopoly by Ed Seykota. He described what was coming in the US with system dynamics models and pictures (and text), in a way that anyone can understand, in 2010. Also the first person to introduce me to the idea of sound money.
The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard.
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
From the top of my head I would say: 1) Barbarian days: A surfing life. 2) Open (for tennis fans) and 3) Broken Money by nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a
the Way of the peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
Good book, & the movie is actually pretty decent too.
Chaos by Tom O‘Neill
the one from Saint-Paulien.
Antifragile - Nassim Taleb changed how I understand / look at everything. Would recommend all his books.
Sometimes it hits me really hard with how many interesting people are on the nostr already.
It seems like organic growth with little hype.
Many of the books already listed here.
One that I did not see mentioned was The Anarchist Handbook - Michael Malice
A collection of essays that gives you a good taste of different breeds of anarchism from different time periods.
4000 Weeks and Your Money or Your Life
The Bible. and The Bitcoin Standard
Psychology of the Future - Stanislav Grof
Atlas Shrugged & 1984
The Alchemist
Jonathan Livingston Seagul by Richard Bach 
Shantaram ❤️
¿Qué libros han cambiado tu vida? 📚
Los míos:
- La rebelión de Atlas de Ayn Rand
- 1984 de George Orwell
Macroscope by Piers Anthony.
Reads like a somewhat trashy but engaging sci-fi but basically presages everything that's happened in 40 years since it was written (in a deep way, not as in "there will be an internet and flying cars" but as in "there will be waves of change which will look like bad things but will actually be good because they drive human adaptation").
Diceman by Luke Rhinehart
Again seems a bit superficial but actually leaving decisionmaking to chance is totally mindblowing - illuminates what you are doing, or think you're doing, when you're taking decisions yourselves - and so illuminates what you are, really.
The Four Pillars of Investing, William J. Bernstein. Great great investment book.
"Also sprach Zarathustra"
Friedrich Nietzsche
1) 1984 by Orwell was a pivot point back in school
2) The Power of Now by Tolle gave me a path to set towards
3) Democracy by Hoppe made me understand why government by force sucks balls
4) Siddharta by Hesse is just beautifully written
Honourable mentions: 21 Lessons by Gigi, Doors of perception by Huxley and Die Welt von Gestern by Stefan Zweig
The Bitcoin Standard
The price of tomorrow
25 Stories I would tell my Younger Self
https://www.amazon.com/Stories-would-tell-Younger-Self/dp/9881485002
naomi klein - the shock doctrine
The Morning of the Magicians - Book by Jacques Bergier and Louis
Pauwels - this is NOT a fantasy book but more a fact based histoiry of some things about mankind that not many people talk about... opened my eyes WIDE
Brave New World
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
BTC Standard
Luuurking… also HHGTTG
Without going into any of the expected books that are inevitably mentioned into these circles like 1984 (which also had a good impact on my resolve around my work focus), I think "the boy who was raised as a dog" left a profound mark on me. https://mindsplain.com/mindsplain-book-review-the-boy-who-was-raised-as-a-dog/
Plato's #book, The Phaedo. I worked hard on that book in high school and that's why I took up #philosophy.
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Primeiro mergulhando em Platão, deitado na rede, em algumas várias férias. Logo Hegel e mais Hegel, e Platão e mais Platão :)
1. Mystery of Capitol by De Soto fundamental changed how I view the world.
2. Book of Job changed how I viewed tough times in life
3. Knowing God by J I Packer also changed my who life from the ground up
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy changed my taste in story telling when I was young.
5. Mere Christianity by c s Lewis had a huge impact on myself at the time I read it.
first 5 that came to mind!
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Best book on persuasion out there and it’s not even close.
Some faves from recent years
- Atlas Shrugged
- Bitcoin Standard
- Principles of Economics
- Breathe: a life in flow
- Mystery of Capital
the bible, the Lord of the rings, toilers of the sea, 12 rules for life
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Atlas Shrugged
Tao Te Ching
Finite and Infinite Games
The Brothers Karamazov
Slaughterhouse Five
Man’s Search for Meaning
Moby-Dick
Blood Meridian
Lolita
The Book Thief
East of Eden
The Stranger
Life of Pi
It was on fire when i lay down on it.
- it helped me to find energy to live and move on
1984
The courage to be disliked.
7 habits of highly effective people
Thinking fast and slow
Fastlane millionaire
How to win friends and influence people on
all of them.. they don't always change your life for the good though. Infact, they just offer perspective. It's up to you to use your own brain to critically think about the point that's being made. Every single book changes your world view. Therfore every single book changes your life. Probably. 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
You too eh? That book taught me more about patience and observation of my world than any other book.
Yeah
Maybe cause it was also an amazing time when I was younger and traveling the world. I think he has some interesting philosophy like romantics and .... (Can't remember, but more structured people).
The sequel Lola was also great.
It seems the book hit us at the same age. I can remember reading it on “our last family vacation” and thinking the freedom the author had still had physical limits but it was enjoyed as ones life should be.
Also Sequel? Interesting.
Catch 22
You can reach the top - Zig Ziglar
Character Building by Booker T Washington
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Honor Thy Father is a 1971 book by Gay Talese, about the travails of the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s, especially Salvatore Bonanno and his father Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno.
Jesus from Holy Bible
"Psychologie der Massen" von Gustave LeBon.
The Power Broker by Robert A Caro, really gave me insight into how the world works. A stunning read. Probably my favourite book of all time.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, all the evils of socialism laid bare.
Mastering Bitcoin
‘Changed’ interpreted as shaped or formed
*“Bible Old Testament”*
*“Bible New Testament”*
*“On Liberty” - John Stuart Mill*
“Euthyphro” - Plato
“Meditations of First Philosophy” - Rene Descartes
“Critique of Pure Reason” - Immanuel Kant
*“Fear and Trembling” - Kierkegaard*
“Repetition” - Kierkegaard
*“Economics textbooks”*
“Ethics” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Probably others
Significance in *this*
#bookstr #books #grownostr
I like your list. How has Kierkegaard influenced you?
So following Kant and Descartes I was left with the limits of what can be known and understood by reason and experience from the senses. What I got out of Kierkegaard was what you do with yourself in that state. Without verifiable deductive proof and with imperfect senses, uncertainty permeates everything. And that’s just it. That’s the state you live in. You exist, you can’t know much more, and there is no fool proof way out to anything else. For a young, very too much, rational person as I was at the time, the obliteration of logic as “the path” to truth was disruptive. Kierkegaards embrace of the aesthetic, and the “leap of faith”, based on nothing more than will and the generation of passion to live according to a choice despite there being no proof for it and the absurdity you will confront in it was important in maturing myself beyond the purely logical limited existence I would have tried to live otherwise.
I'm sure they all change me in some respect, but two recent books come to mind that have changed my perspective on life somewhat
* How to Know a Person - David Brooks (becoming better at understanding people and relationships)
* Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman (time is the most scarce resource)
Bible: saved my soul, made me a better person and improved my relationships.
Facebook: sapped my soul, made me a narcissist and killed my marriage.
Beyond Good & Evil - Nietzsche
Fear and loathing in las vegas
The Creature from Jekyl Island by G Edward Griffin
The Sovereign Individual
The Bitcoin Standard
Philosophy:
Lao Tzu - Dao de Ching
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (I was first influenced by Rand's fiction which is good to get a sense of her spirit, especially Anthem which is concise, but for a non-fiction treatment I think Peikoff best)
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but ignore his baseless protests to reject the moral implications of his scientific work and his pleas to retain Christian morality)
Language:
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Investing:
Ben Graham - The Intelligent Investor
Jim Rogers - Hot Commodities
Money & Banking:
G. Edward Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island (among many others, but this was first)
Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury by E. Michael Jones
The Bitcoin Standard
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl
It will help alleviate your depression.
Endlich Nichtraucher von Allen Carr
How to win friends and influence people.
These books changed everyone's lives, whether they know it or not:
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
Elements of Algebra
Hans Hoppe: Democracy the God that Failed. Mises: Socialism
The Gospel.
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Atlas Shrugged by Rand. First read it when I was 14...
The RA Material, Law of One
The Bitcoin Standard
Think and Grow Rich
The Law of Success
Other than BTC/libertarian books:
1. The Betrothed (Manzoni), any time you read it is different
2. Der Zauberberg (Mann), read it while in a hospital bed, perfect place for that book
3. Divine Comedy (Dante), tough to read even for Italians, but you can find in it anything about human nature
The Last Lecture. I read it twice, which is a rare occurrence. Could easily pick it up again.
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The Bible.
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
I tend to absorb life-changing thought through fiction more readily than self-help 🤷♀️
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Rich dad poor dad
1984
Bullish case for bitcoin(my orange pill)
The bitcoin standard
Broken Money by nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a. As a uni student in the beginning of my life, this made me understand an immensely complex but oh so important monetary system, along with the weaknesses and possible solution.
Reality Transurfing - Vadim Zeland
Empire Of The Sun
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Baghavat Gita
Nassim Taleb‘s Incerto Series. Especially „Antifragile“.
It eventually got me looking into #Bitcoin again.
Which I find ironic because he is pretty anti bitcoin nowadays 🤷♂️
But it got me thinking: „if the whole financial system is on the brink’s of collapse, could #Bitcoin be the one thing that gets stronger if all else fails?“
And the journey into the rabbit hole began. Slowly at first, of course. Then I didn’t fing my way back out :)
My tranformation started with - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
The Power of Bad by John Tierney & Roy Baumeister
Manifesto by Mike Busch
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
- changed my mental model for marriage
The Power of Bad by John Tierney & Roy Baumeister
- I quit poker despite being profitable after realizing I was turning into an ass
Manifesto by Mike Busch
- gave me the framework to buy an airplane
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
- fundamental in my coming to Christ
The bible
Biopiracy - vandana shiva
Killers of the flower moon - david grann.
Passage to India - e m forester
A long way gone - ishmael beah
Pedagogy of the oppressed- paulo freire
Last chance to see - mark cawardine douglas adams
Three body problem - cixie liu
A wrinkle in time - lengle madeleine
Band aid for a broken leg - daimiam brown
Medium is the message - marshall mcluhan
Small is beautiful - e f schumacher
Brave new world - aldous huxley
Em and the big hoom - jerry pinto
Flowers for algernon - daniel keyes
Fountainhead
Walden
Calvin and hobbes
Hitchhikers guide
The god of small things - arundhati roy
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
- FIAT Food by Matthew Lysiak
why we sleep is probably the most impactful book i’ve come across for health and performance improvement.
any non-fiction as the fifth pick on your list?
Here are some absolute masterpieces that have left a lasting impression on me:
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Stoner by John Williams
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Confessions by Jaume Cabré
- A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski
- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Development as Freedom
Freedom from the Known
Nonviolent Communication
Siddharta
Man's Search for Meaning
Atlas Shrugged
The Untethered Soul
Consciousness Medicine
Anna Karenina
The Drowned and the Saved
Madness and Civilization
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Principles
Let My People Go Surfing
New Libertarian Manifesto
by Samuel Edward Konkin III
Los 7 habitos de la gente altamente efectiva. De Dr. Stephen Covey.
El Santo, El Surfista y el ejecutivo. De Robin Sharma.
Y la enciclopedia Deusto de Empresa.
Bible
Reality Revealed
Creature From Jekyll island
Gods Day Of Judgement
Brave New World
Morals And Dogma
Tragedy and Hope