A list of must-read books for a successful life, with reasons for recommendation.
1, Procrastination
Since correct efforts are the biggest determinant of success, all we have to do is work hard. Unfortunately, as human beings, we are very? Lazy? Yes, our instinct often tells us to delay this and that: this is our instinct to subconsciously avoid fear and protect ourselves. So what we really need to do is to find the fear behind procrastination.
Highlight: This book analyzes many kinds? Fear? Fear of success, fear of failure, or fear of losing freedom, and so on. These fears are buried deep in our subconscious, and we seldom realize them voluntarily. But after reading this book, you will have a clearer understanding of these fears, and when you procrastinate in the future, you can accurately judge what fears have caused this procrastination, and then you can prescribe the right medicine and cure procrastination.
Treating procrastination scientifically, rather than just blaming yourself for being lazy and having no willpower, is the real solution to the problem.
2. The Power of Habit
On the way to improve efficiency and reduce procrastination, our biggest enemy may be our inherent habits: human behavior is mostly controlled by habits, and rationality has no effect under the influence of habits. Habit is triggered by a hint (such as getting up in the morning), a routine (buying coffee), a reward (waking up+energy) and changing the routine->; Change habits.
This book also contains a large number of personal, corporate and social cases and stories, which can be called a collection of cases of small business schools and is very interesting to read.
3. Willpower Instinct
Scientists analyze that self-control is directly proportional to the probability of success. The higher the self-control, the greater the achievement in life.
Highlight: The ten chapters of this book are the ten courses of self-control. Except the tenth chapter is a review and summary, each chapter focuses on a problem of self-control, expounds its reasons and gives countermeasures. For example, under what circumstances is it easiest to lose self-control? Why the more depressed, the more rebound? Why is it easy to do bad things after doing good things? The improvement of self-control ultimately depends on your own efforts, but this book gives you the most important weapon: the cognition of self-control.
4. Change your brain and change your life.
In order to better control and manage our behavior, we must first admit a cruel reality, that is, our control and management of ourselves is very weak, much less than we thought. Most of the time, we act on instinct. Our thinking only gives us a reasonable explanation for our actions after our instinct has acted.
Highlight: This book will help you understand our brain structure. The five parts of the brain have their own functions, and the different structures formed naturally or acquired by each part control the behavior and personality of most people. For example, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, violent tendency, etc., which one do we think? Mental illness? Actually, it could be the brain? Physical illness? Because the brain structure of these people is different from that of ordinary people. Therefore, if someone falls and accidentally changes the brain structure, his personality may change greatly.
Everyone's brain structure is inherently different, just as everyone's fingerprints are different. So some people are naturally active and energetic, while others are naturally careless. Recognize how every part of your brain affects your personality, so that you can make corrections more calmly and make your brain characteristics serve you better.
5. "Talent is Overrated"
This is the book I admire most in these years. The author from Tiger Woods and Mozart, two world-famous? Genius? Having said that, we gradually introduce interesting cases such as typists, violinists and female chess players, and decompose them one by one, which shows that the role of talent in a person's success is not as important as we thought. As long as the kung fu is deep and the iron bar is ground into a needle, it is the key to success.
Recommended reason: This book is especially important for children's paper in China: I don't know how many people are discouraged by their parents, friends or inner voices when they want to pursue a certain interest. What if you have no talent? And then retreated? How many people feel that they are not as smart and capable as others, and they are born mediocre and give up their efforts? After reading this book, you will find it unnecessary to call? Talent? ,? Smart? Trapped hands and feet, in most cases, it is not these factors that determine success.
After reading this book, you have no excuse not to work hard.
6, "the power of full devotion"
This book is also a book that I have strongly recommended for many years. This is a book published in a seminar made by my school before I entered the MBA. This workshop teaches various ways to manage energy: how to arrange diet, how to strengthen physical strength, how to improve sleep, the effect of exercise on the brain and so on. After finishing this workshop, I found that efficiency comes not only from good habits and self-control. It is a combination of various factors. To reach the peak of our performance, it is not enough to know only the brain, but also other parts of the body.
Highlight: This book is so interesting that people can't bear to release it. From theory to practice to implementation steps, it is easy to understand and concise. After reading it, you will know how your diet, sleep and exercise habits affect your performance at work and hinder your success.
7. Lean Entrepreneurship
It's not just for Ben. Start a business? This book. In the book, the author Eric Ries expounds a set of theories on how enterprises can effectively deal with problems, serve customers and innovate under the ever-changing risk conditions. And this theory is effective when we make big or small decisions in life: don't be blind or conservative, don't pursue perfection rashly or excessively, and don't treat decisions as? Conditions are ripe? As a natural result, we should learn to try and make mistakes and learn and adjust in a controlled way in constant change. This is the quickest way to success.
8. Blink of an Eye
It took four months for the Getty Museum in the United States to verify that an ancient statue was genuine from all angles of science and law, but three famous archaeologists saw the statue at first sight? Intuition? This is fake. What happened in that blink of an eye? We always believe in fact analysis and rational judgment, but why sometimes it seems that intuition/vague feeling is more helpful? What is behind the locked door in the brain?
Recommended reason: We are often only willing to work hard where we can see the results, and we have no patience and belief to accumulate silently when we can't see the results at ordinary times. After reading this book, maybe you will pay more attention to these bits and pieces and have more patience to accumulate silently.
9. "Selling Anything"
I never thought that finance can be associated with science and brain research, but when they are put together, they are surprisingly convincing: pitch is not a process of persuading the brain to receive and accept information.
Recommended reason: The essence of anything in pitch is not the specific method it teaches you, but the root explanation of Pitch: the way the brain works. Although the specific methods may not be applicable in eastern culture, the principles are refreshing and thought-provoking.
10, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Our brain operation can be regarded as two systems: most of the time, the reckless but efficient system 1 dominates our memory, attention and judgment, so our behavior is mostly subconscious. We also have a rational and wise but super lazy system 2, which is unwilling to come out to work easily. Our blindness, prejudice and temptation are all the results of the operation of these two systems. How to deal with it? Summon your system as much as possible 2~
Highlight: The author of this book is a Nobel Prize winner. It may be a bit difficult to read this book first. It is suggested to start with the basic introductory reading recommended above and use this book as a review summary.
Share books that open your mind.
1. "What are those weird and worrying questions?" , Landauer? Monroe, Beijing United Press, 20 15-5- 1.
Recommended reason:
Is this book written by a former NASA employee, or is it a super popular science comic? xkcd？ Writer Randall? Monroe's new book, the content comes from his? What if? Science Q&A column, supplemented by? xkcd？ Classic stick figure comics, easily and humorously put the knowledge of various subjects on the paper.
What happens if the DNA in the human body disappears instantly?
What will happen if the sea water is drained?
What if the earth expands like the sun?
How high can the steak be cooked?
How many steps are there before the earth?
This is not a well-behaved "100,000 whys", but a scientific truth with a wide brain. The whimsy generated when I was a child can find the most witty and humorous scientific answer in this book!
2. "serious science: satisfy you with science? Pervert? Curiosity ",(France) Pierre? Barthelemi, translated by Shu Wei, published by Beijing United Publishing Company, 20 15-8- 1.
Recommended reason:
Who says science must be done seriously? Is there such a group of scientists who are interested in many things in the world? Not serious? Research topics, such as:
What will be found in human bladder? How to tell whether a pig is happy or not? Men without a sense of smell don't pick up girls? Is the effect of painkillers related to wallets? Can you hide in the refrigerator to avoid the atomic bomb attack? Can doctors operate on themselves? What is the principle of peeing?
These contents involve biomedicine, psychology, economics, marriage between men and women, social culture and other aspects of life. Faced with these seemingly absurd questions, scientists use the most serious attitude and the most rigorous method to find scientific answers. What does this book take stock of in the world? A second crime? What wonderful experiments have scientists done? They use funny and happy strokes to prove to us that science doesn't have to be serious, and you can gain knowledge and thinking after reading and laughing. Humorous words with hilarious cartoons make reading more interesting!
3. Never imagined: Understanding the world with the thinking of science and engineering, written by Wan Weigang (colleague yeyu), published by Electronic Industry Press, 2014-101.
Recommended reason:
Wan Weigang, the author of this book? Learn and laugh at it? In the network science circle, this blogger is more widely known by his pen name "Fan Yeyu".
This book is an anthology of articles and book reviews by field colleagues. Understand the world with science and engineering thinking? Have a direction.
Reading this book is by no means as enjoyable as reading some popular books. It requires you to stop and think for a few steps from time to time. Even after closing the book, it may not add much to your conversation. Or is the author not keen on providing? Interesting knowledge? He promised to provide a legend? Scientific rational thinking? . His ambition is to let? Anti-common sense thinking? Become? Common sense thinking? .
4. Stop it, Mr. Feynman, by Feynman, translated by Wu Chengyuan, Life and Reading, published by Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore 20 12.
Recommended reason:
Do you want to have your own laboratory when you are eleven or twelve? Do you want to be hired as a real engineer by your neighbors or even the factory owner when you were a child? At the same time, there will be some income, and you don't have to look at your mother's face if you want to buy your favorite toy. Stop it, Mr Feynman! ",I'm not kidding. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about Richard, an American scientist who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics. Feynman
Feynman's humorous life and almost urchin's behavior are as famous as his achievements in theoretical physics. This book enjoys the same reputation as your opinion of others. There is no difficult scientific knowledge in the book. Behind every new thing, the essence of human nature that is closest to nature is revealed. If you are a primary and secondary school student, shh, you can quietly prepare one as your naughty guide.
5. "Children ask questions to be answered by masters", Gemma? Owen. Harris, translated by Du Bing, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 20 13-9- 1.
Recommended reason:
Asking questions is the patent of children, and their little heads are always filled with all kinds of strange questions. The problem of the universe, the problem of animals, the problem of one's own body, the problem of philosophy, the problem that everyone can ask, the problem that only a genius can ask, cannot be a problem.
However, children rarely have the opportunity to get professional, accurate and satisfactory answers. For this reason, the editor of this book selects the most exciting and interesting questions 1 15 from thousands of children aged 4 ~ 12 in British primary schools, and then invites top figures from all fields in the world and the most suitable candidates to answer them. The most wonderful question and answer is the book "Children Ask Questions to Answer".
David, the producer of Animal World? Will Sir Attenborough tell the children? There are still undiscovered animals in the world.
Allen, a great writer who is famous all over the world for his novel Love Notes? Will De Botton tell the children? How did the dream come from?
And what about Bell, the producer of Survival in the Wilderness? Griles, the father of linguistics, Noam? Philip Chomsky, the great writer who wrote the dark matter trilogy? Hundreds of big names such as Pullman will also meet the expectations of children.
Their answers are concise, humorous and rigorous, some are enlightening, some are full of imagination, and some even lead you into new puzzles, but no matter how they are answered, they are quite broad or profound, and no child will forget to repay them. Not only children, but also adults may never learn this style.
6. The circle of friends of animals: a taxonomic map of animals that you have never seen before, by adrianna Ba Erman, translated by Liu Xiaoyu, published by Beijing United Publishing Company on September 9, 2010.
Recommended reason:
Zoologists divide animals into countless boring species, but adrianna? Ba Erman is good at finding another way,
She launched a whimsy and seriously verified it; It took three years to organize animals with her unique classification method! Moreover, she carefully drew funny expressions for each animal according to the category!
Now just open the "animal circle of friends" and you can go straight to the circle of friends? The scene? 4 1 circle of friends 620 selling cute animals is the most authentic, fun and unique at a glance!
◎ Has the architect basked in it? A mansion? Collective apartments, dams, skyscrapers, cave villas!
◎ Heroes take turns basking in the sun? Equipment? Sharp horns, wings, armor, hard shell, venom!
◎ Self-portrait fan screenshot show? Beauty? Big head, big ears, long neck, long tongue, long legs and small waist!
◎ Do grumpy people explode collectively? Photos? Eyes fierce, mouth angry, iron teeth Kouga, gnashing her teeth!
◎ Mythist? Stunt competition? Fire-breathing, bull, dreamer, walk with your nose!
◎ Are there travelers who have been sunbathing all the way? Scenery? , couples photo show? Love? Alone in the sun? Lonely? Are rare and endangered people crying? Grievance?
Animals are good friends of human beings, as everyone knows ~
Can you learn more by paying attention to the circle of friends of animals? Information about friends? !
7. Amazing in the bathtub: 256 interesting questions that make you suddenly realize, by Gu Sen, published by People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House, 20 14-7- 1.
Recommended reason:
The amazing in the bathtub comes from Archimedes' words? Eureka. It is a wonderful feeling of epiphany after hard thinking. This book is selected from interesting mathematical problems carefully collected by the author Gu Sen for more than ten years, covering a wide range of areas, such as geometry, combination, itinerary, numbers, probability, logic, games, strategies and so on. Among them, there are classic problems of elementary school Olympic mathematics, the latest famous problems and world-class famous problems, but all of them are in the author's mind without exception? Good question? The topic itself is not easy, the answer is unexpected but reasonable, and the elegant and exquisite solution is amazing. The author also specially set up two kinds of problems: language and situation, hoping that readers without mathematical background can also experience the fun of solving problems.
The author Gu Sen is a crazy math lover. His Chinese professional background is vividly reflected in this book. This book perfectly combines the fun of mathematics with the beauty of words, which not only makes mathematics lovers feel refreshed, but also makes liberal arts students open their eyes.
8. If people are like animals, Marianne Taylor (Marianne? Taylor), translated by Guan Liyan, published by Electronic Industry Press, 20 15-5- 1.
Recommended reason:
This is a grotesque black book on animals, a strange popular science bean that can't stop! ! It can make you enjoy your life in the human world. Animal possession? Cool effect!
What shocking truths are hidden in the animal kingdom? What are the most bizarre facts that will happen to your poor brain? By animals? Possession? What incredible moves will you make?
This book will tell you that if people, like animals, do cool, crazy, terrible and disgusting things that only animals can do, the world will become very strange!
This is a popular science book more imaginative than fairy tales, with wonderful illustrations, full of interest and full of news. It will take you on the scientific roller coaster, all the way over the mountains, and feel the diversity of the biological world, understand? Empathy? Great wisdom, looking at the crazy world from a subversive perspective, and finally becoming the coolest and coolest? Beast of science? !