The Art of War
Evelyn woods speed reading book
I don’t think it helped me in particular because I have always known how to read fast and keep comprehension but it lays out all the variables that go into it, you get out of it what you put into practice basically. Speed reading is the equivalent of 2x speed videos but works much more often in real life.
Here is a quick test to prove to yourself how fast you can go
holy shit that’s cool! wowowow I was always blown away by how fast some people can read but I think I get it now, I’m shocked that I think I actually absorbed most of that last bit at 900wpm
Yeah speed reading and visualization, two massively useful underrated skills to improve that can save you loads of time if you do the right things.
For visualization there is what are called memory palaces where you basically create a symbological image or story (series of images) that are so absurd that you just simply remember them in great detail, and you can use each detail to trace back to something else more important, that’s how you get people reciting hundred of didigrs of pi or whatever else, they have just created a system that encrypts digits of pi into a more rapidly accessible format that makes it feel like you are finding information rather than it bubbling up from the depth fo your mind.
The trick there is that it feels slow and tedious and hard at first but the more practice and experience you have with encoding things, the more quickly you can just remember the most insane amount of shiz with little to no effort.
Isaac Newton - Principia Mathematica. For example, so much of our modern world would not be possible without calculus.
Newton himself might disagree, given that he said that he was only able to produce his work because he was “[stood] on the shoulders of giants”.
That could put Euclid’s Elements above Pricipia Mathematica.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx…
Which was supposed to be progressive and utopian…
Then a bunch of Authoritarians came up with a fucked up interpretations of it and gave rise to Stalinism and Maoism and the CCP…
So that lead to the Cold War and the world nearly ended… but humanity is still here thanks to the heroes like Vasily Arkhipov and Stannislav Petrov amonst various others who prevented global nuclear war.
And then the CCP made the One Child Policy and I almost got forcibly aborted by the CCP because of that policy…
I wasn’t supposed to exist. I’m supposed to be an aborted fetus… 💀
Marx is just rolling in his grave
While unlikely to be #1, I bet there’s at least one computer programming book in the top 100.
Strong argument for Hobbes’s Leviathan
Euclid’s Elements (13 books)
Assuming you’re counting their impact throughout history, and not just the contemporary world:
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Ptolemy’s Almagest
Al-Khwarizmi’s Al-Jabr
Newton’s PrincipiaThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
It coined the word “meme” in 1976!
I want to say Mein Kampf but I wonder how many people actually read it before Hitler came to power.
On that note, I’ve always wanted to get my hands on a copy just because I want to see what kind of insane ramblings it contains but there’s basically no way to do that without looking like a neo-Nazi. I wonder if there’s scans of it online.
There was a joke in Germany during the war that Mein Kampf was like the Bible. Everyone had a copy but none had read it.
I tried to read it once and couldn’t. If you’re not super into Hitler’s racial grievances and Weimar politics, it’s hard to understand.
So what you’re saying is bro should have used a ghostwriter like with The Art of the Deal.
I think one from either Plato or Aristotle: they shaped the way of thinking of people afterwards, up to now
Of western people. Particularly Christian people.
Plato and Aristotle were also major influences on Arabic philosophy.
True. But important to remember their legacy isn’t the only one, just the one that most western people have been deeply exposed to.
Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari had an enormous impact on the entire field of philosophy, which of course in turn has impacted practically every aspect of our modern understanding of the human condition post Freudian lunacy.
I’d say Smith’s Wealth of Nations, but you said no religious books.
Damn, that means Atlas Shrugged is out too.
