Reading list 2020
Reading list for past year: 2019, 2018
The four argument by Don Miguel Ruiz
“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”
- Understanding super-ego from different cultural/religional bakground
Watching the wheels by Damon Hill
- 96 F1 champion on losing his father,Senna,depression and self actualization
Shoe dog by Phil Knight
- Starting from importing Japanese shoe to US
Stilless is the key by Ryan Holiday
- Calm and collect you mind, like meditation, your first though rarely is your best one; radically pioritize sleep.
This is water by david foster wallace
- Re-reading every year
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.
It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:
This is water.
This is water.
It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”
In the realm of hungry ghosts by Dr. Gabor Maté
- Addiction
Mistakes were made but not by me
- It first introduce me to the concept of “Cognitive dissidence”
Skin in the game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Incento series, a must read series to understand the world from economic, meta-physics perspective.
When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
- A memoir so beatiful written
Lifespan by David Sinclair
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- A breif history of humankind