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23-08-2020, 02:29 PM
Since I'm starting to appreciate audio-books more, I'm going to start listening to books where possible rather than reading them.
You see, I'm all about convenience, and so listening to books instead means I can consume more material than before. It doubles up on your productivity since you're getting things done WHILST listening, whether that's exercising or doing the dishes. And that means you can spend your actual reading time on the books and material you can't access in audio-book format.
Like the one I'm starting now - The Complete Memoirs of Casanova - which is only three thousand two hundred pages long.
I know this is hardly a revolutionary new finding. However, it's a new one to me and I'm glad I've come to this realisation.
Listening to The Art of Seduction, 12 Rules for Life, A Brave New World, and The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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23-08-2020, 03:43 PM
I get the time saving idea of ebooks but csnt do them have tried but my mind keeps wandering, I'm a visual learner and have to see and interact with things to learn so its the good old fashioned way for me and hard core reading. Good luck with the casanova epic though
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23-08-2020, 03:51 PM
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I get the time saving idea of ebooks but csnt do them have tried but my mind keeps wandering, I'm a visual learner and have to see and interact with things to learn so its the good old fashioned way for me and hard core reading. Good luck with the casanova epic though
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I've always felt the same and I do enjoy reading more than listening, but I'm gunna have a crack it it this way for a bit and see how I get on.
I totally agree on the mind wandering though, you'll be walking down the street and realise you didn't hear a damn thing for the last 10 minutes and have to rewind it back. Audio-books certainly require a lot more concentration than a podcast or lecture, but I'm beginning to get better at the concentration thing, and that's another reason I'm trying it this way.
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25-11-2020, 09:28 PM
Nice to see you're still about on here Dan (and Mr Kowalski too), but what's with all the books about the Nazi's and the Holocaust? Are you trying to tell us something? 😂
Have you now read every self-help book on the planet or have you just realised it's the same shit rehashed over and over again?
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26-11-2020, 09:05 PM
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Nice to see you're still about on here Dan (and Mr Kowalski too), but what's with all the books about the Nazi's and the Holocaust? Are you trying to tell us something? 😂
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Aww thanks, that's cute.
During the study of undergrad psychology, You touch on authoritarianism a few times, so I always sort of knew I wanted to revisit it once the studies were completed. And then when I became a fan of Jordan Peterson last year, who's always talking about Hitler and Stalin and Totalitarianism, I decided to start reading some of his recommendations like The Gulag Archipelago and Ordinary men.
Just from reading those two books, there was enough intrigue to naturally hook me and so I ended up down various rabbit holes relative to the topic of Totalitarianism and associated events. I've probably got at least 60 such books on my list right now based on all the big dictators from the 20th century Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini and the Kim Dynasty right up to and including their current dictator Kim Jong Un, and I'm constantly finding and downloading more.
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I've long since came to the realisation that self-development books are rehashed nonsense over and over again. It only took me ten years.
There's obviously some, albeit very few, authors who are great in the genre of self-development or the psychology behind it. Robert Greene being my favourite.
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27-12-2020, 07:54 PM
I drew up a new reading list for 2021 with the aim of one book per week. This time they're mostly history that I'm interested in and true stories of facing and overcoming great adversity. I threw in about 5 or 6 books in the business and development genre that I'm interested in reading, with a similar number of fiction books.
The list is of course, flexible, and I can add or remove items from the list any time I like.
I'm aware that this is a tall order, given that a good few of these books are 1000+ pages long.
Here's the list..
1. Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century
2. The Lean Startup
3. The Old Man and the Sea
4. Hunting El Chapo
5. Freakonomics
6. A night to Remember
7. The Kreutzer Sonata
8. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee
9. The Road to Wigan pier
10. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
11. The Nemesis File
12. Gangsters and Goodfellas
13. Shantaram
14. Nothing to Envy
15. South: The Endurance Expedition
16. The Years of Extermination 1933 – 1945
17. I let Him Go
18. Discourses of Epictetus
19. Auschwitz: A Doctors Eyewitness Account
20. The Rational Optimist
21. The Sixteenth Round
22. Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests
23. On Becoming a Person
24. Hitlers Willing Executioners
25. The Night Lives On
26. The First Circle
27. Children Who Kill
28. The Origins of Totalitarianism
29. Dear Reader
30. The Woman in White
31. Nazis on the Run
32. The Accountants Story
33. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
34. The Girl with Seven Names
35. A New World
36. The Science of Evil
37. The Choice: Embrace the Possible
38. Beyond Good and Evil
39. The Psychology of Persuasion
40. Pre-suasion
41. Under the Same Sky
42. Seduction
43. The Billion Dollar Spy
44. The Gulag Archipelago
45. Island
46. Escape from Freedom
47. Hitlers Furies
48. The Art of Betrayal
49. Games People Play
50. The Black Count
51. Meditations
52. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
I'd appreciate any thoughts on my list 🧐
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28-12-2020, 05:14 PM
I would recommend reading "Letters from a Stoic" or "Meditations" (which you have listed) rather than "Discourses of Epictetus". The former two are a more enjoyable read than the latter (imo), but they all cover the main tenents of stoic philosophy.
You really have to be discriminating with your choice of reading material, as you can waste a lot of time on books that won't add much to your life. Quality over quantity.
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28-12-2020, 05:46 PM
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I would recommend reading "Letters from a Stoic" or "Meditations" (which you have listed) rather than "Discourses of Epictetus". The former two are a more enjoyable read than the latter (imo), but they all cover the main tenents of stoic philosophy.
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I've no problem removing or replacing discourses. Cheers, that's probably 5 hours unwasted. The digital copy I had was horrible quality too. Deleted.
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There's 18 on the list that are Totalitarian related. These are essential reading for me since it's my favourite topic. I've already started number 1 on the list and 75 pages in it's actually really well written, unlike some of the other heavily politically worded material I've read on the subject.
Some of the other stuff on here I can easily ditch or replace but some of them are of interest to me regardless of what anyone else thinks. One example is The Nemesis file. You likely don't know what that is but it's about an SAS execution squad who hunted down and fought the provies in Ireland during our troubles.
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29-12-2020, 04:29 PM
Right, so I went through my list, removed a load of the shit, and replaced the shit with much better material. Think of the first list like a rushed, rough draft. There's some classic works of literature in there now that had been on my radar. It's also been reduced from 52 to 40. Quality over quantity.
I had 125 books in my eBook app and I deleted 51 of them. When I thought to myself "do I really give a fuck about El Chapo, or the true life account of Pablo Escobar's brother?", the answer was no, I don't give a flying one.
You'll see one self-development style book in there by Robert Greene. I figured that since I claim him as my favourite author in this genre, I'd delete everything else in the genre and only keep his work.
It feels great to have removed all those books. One of my problems was that once I'd download a book, I felt some sort of obligation that one day I'll have to read it. It gave me an overwhelming anxiety that I had all these books building up, but now I've been relieved of that burden and will never again read books for the sake of reading them.
I'm much happier with this list..
1. Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century
2. A night to Remember (Titanic)
3. The Kreutzer Sonata (Tolstoy)
4. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee (North Korea)
5. The Laws of Human Nature (Greene)
6. The Road to Wigan pier (Orwell)
7. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
8. The Nemesis File (SAS vs Provies)
9. Shantaram (G. D. Roberts)
10. Nothing to Envy (North Korea)
11. South: The Endurance Expedition
12. The Years of Extermination 1933 – 1945
13. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
14. Auschwitz: A Doctors Eyewitness Account
15. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
16. The Brothers Karamazov
17. Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests
18. Hitlers Willing Executioners
19. A Clockwork Orange
20. The Night Lives On (Titanic)
21. The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)
22. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
23. The Origins of Totalitarianism
24. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
25. Dear Reader (North Korea)
26. The Time Machine (H.G Wells)
27. Nazis on the Run
28. Catch-22 (J. Heller)
29. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
30. The Girl with Seven Names (North Korea Escapee)
31. A New World (Huxley)
32. The Science of Evil
33. The Choice: Embrace the Possible (Auschwitz Survivor)
34. Beyond Good and Evil
35. Under the Same Sky (North Korea Escapee)
36. The Gulag Archipelago
37. Island (Huxley)
38. Escape from Freedom (North Korea)
39. The Black Count (The real Monte Cristo)
40. Meditations
Some might think it's still heavy on the totalitarian and Nazi stuff, but as I said before I'm deeply interested in this.
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29-12-2020, 04:55 PM
Dude, no way you reading War and Peace in a week though. It takes about 50 hours of actual reading time and although it isn’t difficult to read it’s slow af.
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