What book(s) has changed your life?
What book(s) has changed your life?
What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success. Any kind of change, big or small. Anything from weight...
Are cross-post allowed? Didn't realized this community existed and it is more fitting to post a question relating to books here then there.
When I was a kid, the governor of Oregon was a guy named Tom McCall who famously said:
Years ago I was gifted a biography of him called "Fire at Eden's Gate: The Tom McCall Story" and introduced another quote of his that I try to take to heart every day.
"Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky, they are people who say 'This is my community and it's my responsibility to make it better.'"
That second quote is great.
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Mistborn. Wouldn't say it changed my life but it really put into words how I feel about religion so I could better communicate it to others. Don't want to spoil anything for anyone but I personally thought the story wrapped up well.
Professionally it was Radical Candor by Kim Scott. I was a struggling new manager from an individual contributor role and it really helped me develop a mindset and ability to set expectations but at the same time assist with their growth.
I read Dragonlance Chronicles when I was in my early teens. It resonated with me as earlier books hadn't. It made me feel all sorts of feelings from a book for the first time.
The first books that touched me.
Me too! Still can’t find something the same.
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Jack Forbes 'Columbus and other cannibals' . It made me realize that what I used to call civilization was too often the opposite. I learned (remembered) that groups of people and philosophies exist outside of the Western(or 'modern') line of thought who are by default silenced or drowned against the mainstream, but who we should probably listen to - considering we are walking towards growing ecological disaster. Forbes' book and then 'Braiding Sweetgrass' (cause you can't always be angry) made the world make sense again.