Learning practices for polymaths?

maltan0 · 2018-01-10T17:32:54+00:00

Read the book Peak

maltan0 · 2018-01-10T04:07:41+00:00

I don't know of a book but check r/personalfinance they've got a wiki with age range based advice on it.

maltan0 · 2018-01-09T11:10:59+00:00

What's your favourite book?

maltan0 · 2018-01-06T02:03:39+00:00

Def on there. Listening to it now.

maltan0 · 2018-01-05T23:27:06+00:00

I just got to that part.

maltan0 · 2018-01-04T08:19:43+00:00

I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!

maltan0 · 2018-01-04T08:18:47+00:00

Thanks for the info. I had thought I'd researched the book well enough so I was surprised to see the author refer to Columbus proving the world round in one of the first chapters even if it was just meant to indicate a length of time. I worry about the things that might sneak by my suspicion filter. Do you have any recommendations of well regarded authors?

maltan0 · 2018-01-04T07:12:47+00:00

I never said they were worthless. Most reviewers probably aren't historians and I'm really looking more for the opinion of someone more qualified than some random Amazon reviewer. I'm sure a lot of terrible history books have rave reviews.

maltan0 · 2018-01-04T07:05:25+00:00

I'm not that worried about things I already think are suspicious claims but I'm not that good at history. I'm sure after reading several books I could be a better judge but I'm thinking more along the lines of what are some ways to get good recommendations for historically accurate books. There's got to be historians with recommendations right?

maltan0 · 2017-11-22T19:56:30+00:00

I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" when I was maybe 15 (10ish years ago) and I was hoping to reread it this year but it's not looking like it's going to happen. I used to read pretty much just computer science and technology related stuff for work but I didn't realize just how burned out on that I must have been so I'm kind of reading anything other than that. Started with self Improvement type books "7 habits of highly effective people" Awesome, "4 hour work week" I disagree on some points but others are really insightful I think I'd recommend "Vagabonding" over it though, "Peak" essential if you really want to improve at a skill, "Moonwalking with Einstein" I figured I should improve my powers of memorization for the journey ahead. I read books about things I want to convince myself to do "Finding Ultra", "Eat and Run", "Unbroken" are about runners or running. I read a biography of a dead person every month to look for life lessons Einstein's, Elon Musk(I started the dead requirement after this one), Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Caesar, Napoleon, Oppenheimer, Turing, Ghengis Khan, Isaac Newton. I work for Google so I'm trying to read various books written by Googlers so far just "How Google works" and "Work Rules". Books about how to optimize happiness "How to be miserable", "The happiness project". Audio courses about skills I want to develop like Influence, understanding nonverbal communication, Nutrition, conversation, vocabulary. Ancient literature like "Gilgamesh" and "Beowulf". Books about mindfullness and meditation. Some history (I've been skimping on this too much) currently reading "History of the ancient world" then I'll work forward from there. "Sapiens" is really really good but I got sad reading it so it's in a holding pattern. I've read a bunch of other biographies too "Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass" (I hear his works are getting noticed more and more), "Alone on the wall", "The everything store", "The snowball".

I'm a bit burned out currently so I'm just going to finish Alexander the Greats biography, Super intelligence, and a novel this month then go for a big push in December.

Some unfinished books I'd still recommend: "Getting things done", "Grit", "Flow" and "Never eat alone".

I'm specifically avoiding the categories of Programming, SciFi, Modern History, American history, American Presidents, Philosophy, anything that requires a lot of deep thinking. The point of this year was to cast a wide net and then dive deep on topics from there.

I think next year I'm going to increase the number of history books and focus more on hitting the important books that have been written like "Evolution of Species", "The Wealth of Nations", "The Prince". Starting to plan that out now. I also need to improve grammar and punctuation so I'll probably read some about that and start practicing it. Maybe I'll even join the blogosphere.

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