(´ω｀) Hello there! I'd just like to ask, what's the book that changed your life for the better? What had a great impact on you? or changed your mindset? Feel free to leave an explanation but only if you're comfortable ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
For me it was Atomic Habits and The Diary of a Young Girl
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Man on Wire by Philippe Petit completely shifted how I think about fear and taking calculated risks – dude literally walked on a tightrope between the Twin Towers and his whole philosophy about pursuing impossible dreams really stuck with me
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None. I understand the intent of the question but the collection of everything I’ve read has changed my life in the aggregate. Each book highlighted one small blind spot, taught a single lesson, reminded me of a truth I’ve let go, changed my mind.
The moment I found Kurt Vonnegut I knew I wasn’t the only one. As well as Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard
The power of subconscious mind
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s so beautiful and completely changed the way I live my life.
The Bible
The only financial guide you’ll ever need by andrew tobias. Read it followed his advice and retired early, The day I retired i wrote to thank him and he graciously responded. The book is aimed at people who regard managing their money as interesting as visiting the dentist. It tells you what to do based on sound finanial research but without going into all the detail. Importantly it also tells you what not to do. Its like a doctor telling you what to eat and what to avoid without going into all the scientific detail. You can read it in a few hours and it has only one graph. Its aimed at people like you. If i can retire early (an ordinary person – lower middle class upbringing, government school not a trust fund baby ) so can you.
Try this One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9X6BL66
Hi 🩷 many books have fundamentally changed me, but the one I always come back to is Know My Name by Chanel Miller. As an SA survivor, it changed everything for me & inspires me to this day
It’s not a book, but I think you can get collections of them now, but if you ever read Cometbus and you were kind of a grimey weirdo, or maybe you drank too much coffee, or maybe you liked walking around alone all night with your headphones on, or diving the dumpster behind the book store for remainders, it was revelatory and it wouldn’t be long before you combined all those things and wrapped them up into yourself under a dingy black hoody.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I read it in high school and it changed me completely.
Plato is amazing as well way more accessible than people think.
It was the comic book. It was about all I read till I was 11.