I’m interested in jumping back on the self improvement track again. I started it probably 6 years ago, a junior in high school. At some point, I started reading these forums and read some of Angry Chicken’s posts. His posts, plus the books he recommended, at the point of my life I was in, were honestly life altering for me. I don’t know that he posts much here anymore, or if he’ll even read this thread, but thanks AC for everything.
My quality of life dramatically improved since I started making a conscious effort to improve myself, and you were a huge catalyst in that.
Many of the books he suggested (there was a reading list he had at one point for the Confession/Question separate website when it existed) were about a lot of things, from psychology, evolution, basic social interactions, why humans act the way they do, traits of successful people, and a lot of other stuff I don’t remember off the top of my head.
At its core, those books were about understanding yourself and the world around you. I liked pretty much all of these books, and learned something from almost every one of them.
Basically, I’m interested in books like those. Books that can open your eyes a little bit, that help you see and understand yourself and the world.
Does anybody have any book suggestions? Even books that broaden my knowledge are something I’d be interested in, and I know a lot of people on here read quite a bit about different topics.
I enjoyed Scott Adams’ - “How to fail at almost everything and still win big”. He’s the author of the Dilbert principle and the cartoonist for the NY times. He has interesting and sometimes unorthodox views on success.
Also a classic on human interaction is Dale Carnegie’s “How to win friends and influence people”.
“The definitive book of body language” by Pease is also good.
You mind writing down some titles AC recommended to you?
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
Mastery - George Leonard
Frogs into Princes - Richard Bandler
Those are some of them that I’ve read. To be clear, he did not recommend them to me personally. Pretty sure he has no idea who I am. These, and many others, were some of what he suggested to a group of posters here who were a part of the Question/Confession thread way back. If you don’t remember it, basically that thread turned into developing a certain poster here and improving his life internally and socially. AC made a great effort to support and guide that poster and others, I just tagged along and learned what I could.
[quote]staystrong wrote:
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Vital Lies, Simple Truths - Daniel Goleman
Influence - Robert Cialdini
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
Mastery - George Leonard
Frogs into Princes - Richard Bandler
Those are some of them that I’ve read. To be clear, he did not recommend them to me personally. Pretty sure he has no idea who I am. These, and many others, were some of what he suggested to a group of posters here who were a part of the Question/Confession thread way back. If you don’t remember it, basically that thread turned into developing a certain poster here and improving his life internally and socially. AC made a great effort to support and guide that poster and others, I just tagged along and learned what I could.[/quote]
hmm looked for the thread but nothing came up for me…
In a similar vein:
The extended phenotype -Dawkins
Radical Honesty -Brad Blandford
Conversations with God -Neal Donald Walsh
Never Eat Alone -Keith Ferrazi
The Games People Play -Eric Berne
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience -Csikszentmihalyi
Why Men Love Bitches -Sherry Argov and the Rules by ellen fein(to be aware/understand the play hard to get dogma that a lot of women are brought up with)
[quote]staystrong wrote:
Those are some of them that I’ve read. To be clear, he did not recommend them to me personally. Pretty sure he has no idea who I am. These, and many others, were some of what he suggested to a group of posters here who were a part of the Question/Confession thread way back. If you don’t remember it, basically that thread turned into developing a certain poster here and improving his life internally and socially. AC made a great effort to support and guide that poster and others, I just tagged along and learned what I could.[/quote]
hmm looked for the thread but nothing came up for me…[/quote]
I remember that thread and got a lot out of it too. Unfortunately it was in SAMA and thus has been cast into the abyss.
I like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I swear one of these days I’ll start applying them…
[quote]staystrong wrote:
Those are some of them that I’ve read. To be clear, he did not recommend them to me personally. Pretty sure he has no idea who I am. These, and many others, were some of what he suggested to a group of posters here who were a part of the Question/Confession thread way back. If you don’t remember it, basically that thread turned into developing a certain poster here and improving his life internally and socially. AC made a great effort to support and guide that poster and others, I just tagged along and learned what I could.[/quote]
hmm looked for the thread but nothing came up for me…[/quote]
I remember that thread and got a lot out of it too. Unfortunately it was in SAMA and thus has been cast into the abyss.
I like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I swear one of these days I’ll start applying them…
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Cimmeran is right, it was in SAMA and that means it doesn’t exist anymore. Shame, because that thread was pretty cool overall.
I will have to look at the seven habits. IIRC, that was on the list also but I forgot about it.
[quote]RampantBadger wrote:
In a similar vein:
The extended phenotype -Dawkins
Radical Honesty -Brad Blandford
Conversations with God -Neal Donald Walsh
Never Eat Alone -Keith Ferrazi
The Games People Play -Eric Berne
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience -Csikszentmihalyi
Why Men Love Bitches -Sherry Argov and the Rules by ellen fein(to be aware/understand the play hard to get dogma that a lot of women are brought up with)
