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I have wandered far, seen and done much, but I found no situation that could not be eased with the help of a simple but profound little book an uncle gave me when I was young. A great and good man. I never realized how great until he was gone.
As a Man Thinketh (a literary essay) James Allen 1902 Influenced by a verse in the Bible from the Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse7, short version: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." |
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When I was young, I was a very outdoorsy kind of person, and dreamed of one day being either a forest ranger or in the military. But I had an aptitude for math and the physical sciences, and ended up deciding in my very last year of high school to go to university and study science instead. In retrospect, I have to think that "Tom Swift Jr. and the Race to the Moon" was secretly moving me in that direction for many years. It wasn't just one of my favourite books as a youngster, it made me passionate for physics, and changed my life when I got to that crossroads.
P.S. I'm not so sure it shaped me as much as illuminated what was important. But maybe there isn't much difference when you're young and impressionable. Last edited by rkomar; 01-16-2013 at 03:40 AM. |
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Jules Verne got me into reading back when I was 6 or 7 so I guess his books made me the bookworm that I am today. In terms of thinking and viewing life, I'd say The Selfish Gene and The Origin of Species.
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I'm also going to add On Intelligence to my list. It's a fairly short and mostly readable book on how consciousness arises in the brain; it certainly changed how I think about the brain and what consciousness really is. |
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Two books that influenced me were Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
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Fascinating. I have somehow missed this book over the years but reading about it, and sampling it from Amazon just now it definitely looks interesting. Will add it to my list. I do wonder about the applicability given that it's almost 10 years old. Your take on that?
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http://awfullibrarybooks.files.wordp.../scan10048.jpg There's some good ideas in there but I doubt it is good enough to turn even the mildest statist socialist into a proper libertarian. |
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