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Another common distraction masquerading as productivity is reading business books. It sure seems like Why We Buy6, Made to Stick7 and Outliers8 are going to help you launch a successful product. But reading books gets you no closer to
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“To prevent economic breakdown and to repress popular discontent, the governments of hungry countries will be tempted to enforce ever-stricter controls. Furthermore, chronic undernourishment reduces physical energy and disturbs the mind. Hunger and self-government are incompatible.”
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“But one thing I’m sure of: My education really began that day in Nassau Hall. Dean Root freed me to get on with my life. Learning”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
“Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.”
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
― Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure
“Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without.”
― Notes on Democracy
― Notes on Democracy
“She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
NonFiction Pulitzers
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A group to read the General Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography, and History Books that won or were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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