15 books you've never heard of that will change your life:

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa Lessons: • Accept everything just the way it is • If you have to stop & think about it you don’t know it well enough • Be pragmatic & don’t get attached

The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián Lessons: • Learn from everyone • Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose • Learn about deception so you will not be deceived

Peace is Every Step By Thich Naht Hanh Lessons: • You don’t need to meditate to be present. You can be present in everyday life • You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Storm of Steel By Ernst Jünger Lessons: • Make the best out of everything • Respect your enemy • Humans can endure a lot

Siddhartha By Hermann Hesse Lessons: • Challenges are required for growth • Find wisdom in yourself

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu Lessons: • Don’t force - go with the flow • You wouldn’t know good without knowing bad

The Art of Learning By Josh Waitzkin Lessons: • Leave comfort & safety to grow • Transfer knowledge between unrelated tasks

The Fountainhead By Ayn Rand Lessons: • Do things for its own sake • Most people blindly follow others

Predictably Irrational By Dan Ariely Lessons: • Zero cost is costly • Everything is relative • We have less control over our behavior than we like to admit

The Way of Zen By Alan Watts Lessons: • Don’t get lost in ideas • Don’t take life too serious

I am Wind & You are Fire By Rumi Lessons: • Your job is to live your life in a way that makes sense to you, not to “them”. • What you seek lies inside you

Zen in the Art of Archery By Eugen Herrigel Lesson: • You don’t perform masterful actions, your intuition does. • Forget yourself and become one with the action

Undisputed Truth By Mike Tyson Lessons: • Fast money & fame can be dangerous • Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning

Narcissus & Goldmund by Hermann Hesse Lessons: There are too many. It’s a rollercoaster through life and exceptionally well written. Read the book and take your own lessons.

How to get rich By Felix Dennis Dennis got rich (400M) BEFORE writing the book A raw & honest look at what it takes to get rich. It shows the sacrifice and the bad parts as well as the good parts. This is no hype up pop-culture book that lures you in to buy a second book.

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