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items I started collecting lists of books in so many places. This is my definitive list of all those favorite books that I highly recommend to you! I hope you like them.
If you struggle through something very hard, and lose it at the end, would you say your whole struggle was a failure?
Old Man And The Sea
My girlfriend bought me this book to help me manage my anxiety and stress caused by my mum’s illness. It’s incredibly hard seeing one’s parents still alive, but no longer there.
A Grief Observed (Readers' Edition) with Contributors
If you are a fellow INTJ like me, you’re most definitely hunting for books about strategy. This is one for your list.
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy ...
I haven’t read this book yet, but am very curious what it can teach me about how to make good decisions, or even better how to avoid making bad ones.
An Introduction to Decision Theory
This sounds like such a fun book! Could be a perfect gift for someone 😁
Scorn: The Wickedest Insults in Human History
This book provides a deep, but interesting dive in the history of strategy of war. This helped me understand the origin of what we consider today as ‘strategy’.
On War - Carl Von Clausewitz
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This is my absolute go-to guide for banishing awkward small talk, navigating tricky social situations, and turning everyday chats into genuinely meaningful encounters
The Art of Civilized Conversation: Guide
Whenever I'm leading complex software projects, this is the ultimate wisdom I turn to. Fred Brooks' timeless classic completely deconstructs why adding people to a late project only delays it further, offering brilliant, foundational insights into te...
Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Eng
I've always been fascinated by the hidden roots of history and consciousness. The Immortality Key is a mind-bending deep dive into the ancient, archaeochemical connections between early religion, ritual sacraments, and psychedelics that completely ch...
The Immortality Key: Secret History of Religion
Whenever I want to understand the darker, hidden facets of the human psyche, I turn to Marie-Louise von Franz. Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales is a brilliant, eye-opening exploration of how ancient folklore and classic stories map directly onto our ow...
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
Frederick Perls' brilliant revision of Freud looks at human drive, oral aggression, and neurosis through an organic lens, offering profound insights into how we metabolize both food and life experiences.
Ego, Hunger and Aggression: Revision of Freud
We live in an age of shallow connection and digital apathy, which is why Love & Will is my ultimate blueprint for cutting through the noise and reclaiming authentic human depth.
Love & Will, by Rollo May
Exploring the mechanics of human consciousness is a lifelong passion of mine, which is why The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt remains my ultimate intellectual anchor for understanding the deep architecture of thinking, willing, and judging.
The Life Of The Mind: Philosophical Study
Stripping away the fluff of modern self-help, Allen Wheelis's How People Change is a profound, brutally honest masterclass on the anatomy of human transformation, freedom, and why real change remains so elusive.
How People Change: Psychological Work
Stripping away psychoanalytic jargon to expose the raw mechanics of human willing, desire, and despair, The Ways Of The Will by Leslie H. Farber is my go-to collection for brutally honest, piercingly sharp insights into the human condition.
The Ways Of The Will: Selected Essays
To understand what truly drives human freedom and autonomy against modern conformity, I turn to The Will To Be Human by Silvano Arieti. It is a brilliant, eye-opening exploration into how we cultivate individual agency and meaning in an increasingly ...
The Will To Be Human, by Silvano Arieti
Trusting our internal alarm bells is an absolute game-changer for personal safety, which is why Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear is my ultimate manual for learning how to read survival signals, weaponize intuition, and protect what matters most.
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals by Gavin de Becker
Blurring the boundary between reality, dreams, and psychoanalysis, Eating Pavlova by D.M. Thomas is a brilliantly bizarre, dreamlike exploration of Sigmund Freud's final days that completely reimagines the mind of the father of psychoanalysis.
Eating Pavlova, by D.M. Thomas