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- There is a world record holder for 1000 mile races who is all about running off only fat. Advises to eat nothing before the race, and to refuse all of the gu and gels they try to hand you while running.
I successfully completed a marathon 3 months after reading his book after having never run more than 3 miles in my life. (Stu Mittleman - Slow Burn)
- +Newton's Principia as a masterpiece of marketing and for creating the modern scholasticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia...
+Descartes' Geometry where he declares that you can choose any line as a unit to measure other lines (your knowledge depends on what you already know, your unit) (p.1) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26400/26400-pdf.pdf
+Galileo's Dialogues for the realization that real understanding of nature does not come from academic gibberish and research is actually fun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chi...
+Dana Densmore's Newton book to understand Principia http://www.greenlion.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.100.exe/principi.h...
+Slow burn by Stu Mittleman to understand how human body deals with fat and sugar http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Burn-Faster-Exercising-Slower/dp/...
+The Answer John Assaraf about habits http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Business-Achieve-Financial-Extr...
+Paul Graham's essays on education and dropping out of school for early startup http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html
+Ernst Mach's History of mechanics for its incredible lucidity and classic simplicity http://books.google.com/books?id=8bI3-JSarecC&dq=ernst+m...
+Euclid for its complete lack of physics in it and its beautiful diagrams http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html +Aristotle for appreciation of curiosity http://books.google.com/books?id=WWyF4vS8P7UC&pg=PA154&#...
+Bertrand Russel for his humor http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell and for his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Really beautiful book so simple and fun to read... http://books.google.com/books?id=9GK_Fhz5RDUC&dq=introdu...
+Tolstoy's Confessions http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy/confession... For his intellectual quest going in circles
I believe that if you continue long enough in your quest, your research and understandings will describe such a circle. That's not a bad thing, I guess.
How does the world work? The world works the way you look at it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210104 We see what we believe.
Ooops, I think I am steering away from your question. But I learned something about how the world works from each one of these books.
I totally appreciate your approach to the question from a wholistic view (including the social and human elements) by disregarding academic boundaries.
