Bible.
Immanuel Kant
Purpose driven life
Fundamental Chemistry
I had spent about 5 years partying and wasting my life... and one night I was so bored at my stupid night shift job that I picked up the only book I could find to read, and it was like my brain sucked it in like a vacuum cleaner- and I immediately started college and ended up with 3 degrees in physics, computer science, and accounting.
The Bible and One Second After. One is glorious and a little scary, the other is absolutely frightening.
Bible. Isaiah to be specific.
Secrets of Closing the Sale.
By Zig Zigler.
If I had read this at the start of my career I would
have had a much improved business and bottom line.
Other than The Bible, I would say “Crime And Punishment”.
“Strangers have the best candy!”
Would you accept 3?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, detailing the home life of an efficiency expert with 12 children.
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman which chronicles the first year of an idealistic teacher in a the NY public school system. “Let it be a challenge to you” the principal’s favorite rejoinder to questions about resolving unsolvable situations has reverberated through my life.
It helped me reconcile my scientific nature with my spirituality.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.....
I would have to say the book that changed me the most was Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics."
“The Gulag Archipelago” - Solthenitsyn
The Happy Hollisters and the Haunted House Mystery. Read to my second grade teacher during recess. I developed a joy in reading at that point that is almost an addiction at this point.
Anthem, by Ayn Rand.
My fourth grade teacher (who I was madly in love with) gave me a copy, and told me that I was either going to embrace freedom or crime. Some people make a difference in influencing your life. She was one of those. God bless her.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
Bible.
The Medium Is The Message, by Marshall McLuhan. It explains the different impacts between radio and television. I heard Rush Limbaugh talking all around the issue of how radio impacts people a few days ago, and realized McLuhan had explained the whole thing in 1967.
Television is a “cool” medium, whereas radio is a “hot” medium, addressing or appealing to the tribalism inherent in humans.
One Second After is a great book, too.
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