5 Fascinating Books That Force You To Think Differently
Some books are very powerful to ignite your critical thinking and force you to ponder over an uncharted realm. The following is the list of books that have the same potential to expand your mind and change your life. They will provide great insights and deep discussion on different topics from Finance to Bio-engineering, Dark energy to the power of sorrow. Have a look.
- ‘The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness’ by Morgan Housel
Behavior is very important while dealing with money. People usually lack financial and personal finance knowledge to handle their money wisely. The key to becoming rich isn’t earning a lot of money or having multiple income streams, but managing and handling your money wisely.
“Use money to gain control over your time, because not having control of your time is such a powerful and universal drag on happiness. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want to, pays the highest dividend that exists in finance.” ~ Morgan Housel
A perfect book for those who want to get financial knowledge about saving, investing, and utilising money. Spending money unnecessarily will make one’s poor. Debunking the myth that for a good investor and personal finance acumen, one needs to have a lot of mathematical and financial knowledge before. He argues that only by changing our behaviour and attitude towards money, we can become financially sound at personal level. Money is more linked with emotions and feelings instead of laws and rules.
2. ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ by Yuval Noah Harari
Another masterpiece by the great world thinker after Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus. This book provides deep and radical thinking on current issues facing our world in the 21st century. He has touched on varied topics in the book ranging from terrorism to post-truth, nationalism to spirituality, and bio-engineering to Artificial engineering.
“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.” ~ Yuval Noah Harari
Very lucid and clear written, giving you deep and thought-provoking insights on the above-mentioned things. Harari says Humans are prone to disrupt more fundamentally by technological innovation and bio-engineering than terrorism.
3. ‘Bittersweet: How sorrow and longing make us whole’ by Susan Cain
Human society is made up of that which focuses more on joy and happiness and ignores other intrinsic human feelings — Sadness and boredom. We aspire to keep down these so-called “negative feelings” and focus to keep up “good feelings”. Susan Cain’s new book Bittersweet challenges this notion. Bittersweet title comes from life is both bitter and sweet at the same time.
“This book is about the melancholic direction, which I call the “bittersweet”: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death — bitter and sweet — are forever paired. “Days of honey, days of onion,” as an Arabic proverb puts it.” ~ Susan Cain
Sorrow and longing are an indispensable part of our lives and with joy and happiness, they make us complete. Bittersweet tries to give these profound and deep messages with several anecdotes and examples. It’s a great book to read in one flow with lucid and clear language.
4. ‘Astrophysics for people in a hurry’ by Neil deGrasse Tyson
What is Space & Time? What is our place in this universe? Where does it all begin?
These are generic questions that pop out in our minds day & night. Human mind is curious. But to understand these questions, we need great focus and comprehensibility. The language of Physics is very tricky, full of numbers and formulas. Theoretical physicists have been making theories regarding the functionality of Physics.
“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tyson’s book helps to demystify the complex language of astrophysics into common and comprehensible parlance. Understand difficult things like Black hole, Dark energy, Dark Matter, and many more in an easy way. A lucid and well-written book is easy to read.
5. ‘Shoe Dog’ by Phil Night
It’s a memoir written by the creator of Nike describing the challenges he had to face while establishing the Nike empire. It’s a very inspirational and insightful book, full of lessons and wisdom from a legend entrepreneur.
“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.” ~ Phil Knight
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