15 books you've never heard of that will change your life:

Musashi
by Eiji Yoshikawa

Lessons:
• Accept everything just the way it is
• If you have to stop & think about it you don’t know it well enough
• Be pragmatic & don’t get attached

The Art of Worldly Wisdom
by Baltasar Gracián

Lessons:
• Learn from everyone
• Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose
• Learn about deception so you will not be deceived

Peace is Every Step
By Thich Naht Hanh

Lessons:
• You don’t need to meditate to be present. You can be present in everyday life
• You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Storm of Steel
By Ernst Jünger

Lessons:
• Make the best out of everything
• Respect your enemy
• Humans can endure a lot

Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse

Lessons:
• Challenges are required for growth
• Find wisdom in yourself

Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu

Lessons:
• Don’t force - go with the flow
• You wouldn’t know good without knowing bad

The Art of Learning
By Josh Waitzkin

Lessons:
• Leave comfort & safety to grow
• Transfer knowledge between unrelated tasks

The Fountainhead
By Ayn Rand

Lessons:
• Do things for its own sake
• Most people blindly follow others

Predictably Irrational
By Dan Ariely

Lessons:
• Zero cost is costly
• Everything is relative
• We have less control over our behavior than we like to admit

The Way of Zen
By Alan Watts

Lessons:
• Don’t get lost in ideas
• Don’t take life too serious

I am Wind & You are Fire
By Rumi

Lessons:
• Your job is to live your life in a way that makes sense to you, not to “them”.
• What you seek lies inside you

Zen in the Art of Archery
By Eugen Herrigel

Lesson:
• You don’t perform masterful actions, your intuition does.
• Forget yourself and become one with the action

Undisputed Truth
By Mike Tyson

Lessons:
• Fast money & fame can be dangerous
• Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning

Narcissus & Goldmund
by Hermann Hesse

Lessons:
There are too many. It’s a rollercoaster through life and exceptionally well written. Read the book and take your own lessons.

How to get rich
By Felix Dennis

Dennis got rich (400M) BEFORE writing the book

A raw & honest look at what it takes to get rich. It shows the sacrifice and the bad parts as well as the good parts. This is no hype up pop-culture book that lures you in to buy a second book.

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