Selfdevelopment

Reading List of 2021

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This is the big list of books I completed in 2021.

I would like to say there is a pattern, however I think that would be a lie.

The list is in (mostly) sequential order

note: just because it is on this list does not mean I recommend it or will not recommend it later, this is more the list of stuff I thought would be worth reading.

  1. The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad
  2. Eating the Dinosaur
  3. Song Machine
  4. Humble Pi
  5. Liquid Rules
  6. Better Than Before
  7. Libertarian Walks into a Bear
  8. All Creatures Great and Small
  9. Watership down
  10. Thrawn ascendancy: Greater Good
  11. White fang
  12. A Clockwork Orange
  13. Creativity INC
  14. Heavens river (Bobiverse)
  15. Mathematics of love
  16. The Ice Diary’s
  17. Shadows of the Empire (abridged)
  18. The Android’s Dream
  19. Sword of Destiny (Witcher)
  20. Invisible hook
  21. The Godfather
  22. Four Fish
  23. Orconomics
  24. Eaters of the Dead
  25. Cosmos
  26. Super Freakonomics
  27. Lies my Teacher Told Me
  28. Prisoners of Geography
  29. Nordic Theory of Everything
  30. Everybody has a Podcast Except You
  31. Thinking, Fast and Slow
  32. Curious
  33. Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
  34. Existentially Challenged
  35. Consider the Fork

Better Than Before

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Habits are things everyone does, this book recognizes that and has you think about the habits you make and how to exploit them. The author does a great job of looking at the 4 main types of habit formers and examines how each works and how to get each one to work to achieve “happiness”. I am using this term a bit loosely as I think this is more of a book to get you to think about what you want to change about yourself, not directly relating to happiness. This is a book for a tool to work on yourself not the silver bullet for happiness.

 I do also think the extra long excerpt about going keto is a bit shoe-horned in. And as I got the audiobook version of this, I got a preview of her podcast. I don’t think either add much to the book. I will admit the keto section is a good example of using habits, but she dives way too far into it.

Great book to get you to think about your own actions and how to change them

How to be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use

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Being sad on purpose

I think this book is a good go-to for anyone in today’s world if they don’t feel “quite as happy they should be”. The whole premise of the book is novel, in that it gets you the reader to look backwards at happiness, in a reverse psychology manner. Instead of trying to go straight to happiness, this book looks at how to do things to make yourself even sadder and more miserable than you currently are, in both a sarcastic manner and a “hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge” way of asying DON’T DO THIS IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS. The author of the book is a PHD and has worked with many clients, and I think he presents his experience well.

Great food for thought, probably one I need to re-visit time to time.

If you are looking for a TLDR, I do recommend this video by CPG Grey: