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5.0 - The Mind

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats

5.1 - Reading

Language is what gives us our intelligence and humanity. Without it we would be dumb animals no different than chimpanzees. But even now when we speak and think we can only draw on those things that we've previously seen or heard before, so we are mentally limited by our current experiences and vocabulary. With each new book we read, we grow in sophistication and knowledge. With each new book we read we 'level up' like you would in a video game.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

I don't think I need to say much here. Reading is great for you, and I'm sure most of you understand that.

You once you start reading voraciously.

Even you could look like this brainjak if you picked up a book and read a chapter or two a day.

There are a lot of great books out there, but I'll leave some recommendations below. Generally, fiction books are read for entertainment (not they don't have important/valuable themes) and non-fiction works are read for education.

But how do you get your books? If you prefer to read a physical book, like me, you can just order them online or borrow from a library. If you live in the United States, it's likely that you have a local library with a free membership. Libraries are wonderful opportunities and you should absolutely take advantage of them. That being said, if you can't find your book physically or prefer reading PDFs, you can always download them. The single best website for books is Anna's Archive. Some lesser alternatives are Library Genesis, Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Project Gutenberg.

If you're going to purchase books online, consider supporting /our guys/ at Antelope Hill Publishing and Imperium Press before buying books from careless megacorps like Amazon.

Recommended Non-fiction

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind by Stephen Mitford Goodson
  • A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy
  • A New Nobility of Blood and Soil by Richard Walther
  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How by Theodore J. Kaczynski
  • Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
  • Connections by James Burke
  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  • Das Kapital by Karl Marx
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean S. Carroll
  • Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell
  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Colberi
  • Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
  • Fry the Brain by John West
  • Genome by Matt Ridley
  • How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich
  • Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
  • Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics by Francis Parker Yockey
  • Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. Kaczynski
  • Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
  • Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life by Oswald Spengler
  • March of the Titans by Arthur Kemp
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
  • Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
  • Politics by Aristotle
  • Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
  • Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
  • Remarkable Creatures by Sean Carroll
  • Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Ride the Tiger by Julius Evola
  • Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Ecker
  • Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
  • Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
  • The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
  • The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer
  • The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by Brian Mealer
  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
  • The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
  • The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality by Oswald Spengler
  • The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
  • The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
  • The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans by Anonymous Conservative
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics [1,2,3] by Richard Feynman
  • The Food of the Gods by Terrance Mcenna
  • The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
  • The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
  • The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  • The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
  • The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
  • The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
  • The Master Key System by Charles F Haanel
  • The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  • The Phenomenology of Spirit by George Hegel
  • The Power is Within You by Louise L. Hay
  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  • The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
  • The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
  • The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
  • The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
  • The Reign Of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
  • The Republic by Plato
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
  • The Seashell on the Mountaintop by Alan Cutler
  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  • The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
  • The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
  • The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
  • The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
  • The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800: An Interpretive History by Pamela Kyle Crossley
  • The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
  • Thus Spake Zarathrusta by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
  • Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • War of the Flea by Robert Taber
  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky

Recommended Fiction

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Duma
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
  • The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
  • The Aeneid by Virgil
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  • Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Les Miserebles by Victor Hugo
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Crisis by Winston Churchill
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
  • Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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