General Knowledge

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Books about general knowledge

What books would you recommend about general knowledge?

Zac Scy, Reader & writer. What can I say? I love them words! Zac is a Most Viewed Writer in Books.

Here’s a list of books that has informed and taught me how to think rather than what to think. You see, you have to combine knowledge with experience. Read a book, live, read another book, live some more, repeat ad infinitum.

  1. The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization – Herman, Arthur
  2. Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time – Pfeffer, Jeffrey
  3. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Gilbert, Elizabeth
  4. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life – Kabat-Zinn, Jon
  5. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version – Lao Tzu
  6. Think like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain – Levitt, Steven D.
  7. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day – Gelb, Michael J
  8. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity – Cameron, Julia
  9. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast – Kaufman, Josh
  10. The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage – Brown, Brené
  11. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are – Brown, Brené
  12. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You – Aron, Elaine N.
  13. What the Bleep Do We Know!?: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality – Arntz, William
  14. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Jeffers, Susan
  15. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance – Epstein, David
  16. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions – Munroe, Randall
  17. Mastery – Greene, Robert
  18. Poke the Box – Godin, Seth
  19. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
  20. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Sinek, Simon
  21. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brown, Brené
  22. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Cialdini, Robert B.
  23. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything – Foer, Joshua
  24. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – Godin, Seth
  25. Think and Grow Rich – Hill, Napoleon
  26. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Dweck, Carol S.
  27. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Pink, Daniel H.
  28. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
  29. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others – Pink, Daniel H.
  30. Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion – Vaynerchuk, Gary
  31. How We Decide – Lehrer, Jonah
  32. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance – Levitt, Steven D.
  33. Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life – Maltz, Maxwell
  34. Contagious: Why Things Catch On – Berger, Jonah
  35. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Carnegie, Dale
  36. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! – Robbins, Anthony
  37. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) – Levitt, Steven D.
  38. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change – Covey, Stephen R.
  39. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Gladwell, Malcolm
  40. Man’s Search for Meaning – Frankl, Viktor E.
  41. The Last Lecture – Pausch, Randy
  42. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Currey, Mason
  43. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average – Hallinan, Joseph T.
  44. Do the Work – Pressfield, Steven
  45. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles – Pressfield, Steven
  46. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Catmull, Ed
  47. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results – Keller, Gary
  48. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative – Kleon, Austin
  49. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered – Kleon, Austin
  50. Leaders Eat Last – Sinek, Simon
  51. Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success – Snow, Shane
  52. The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help – Palmer, Amanda

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