Mindwise

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1. siversDec 2019
   Since 2007, I've taken detailed notes on every book I've read, then posted them on my site with my top recommendations up top:

   https://sivers.org/book

   My top recommendations here for the Hacker News crowd - with a nudge for the under-rated, are:

   The Time Paradox - by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd

   https://sivers.org/book/TimeParadox

   Profound idea that everyone has a primary time focus: either Future-focused, Present-focused, or Past-focused. Fascinating implications of each. Because I'm so future-focused, reading this book helped me understand people who are very present-focused. Also great advice on shifting your focus when needed. I read it 7 years ago, but still think about it almost every day.

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   Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want - by Nicholas Epley

   https://sivers.org/book/Mindwise

   Many new brilliant insights, especially about over-estimating the differences between you and others, thereby separating into us-vs-them tribalism. Scan to the end of my notes, to see. If you know more books like this, please recommend them to me. I adore this subject.

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   The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield

   https://sivers.org/book/WarOfArt

   Have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what “Resistance” is. This book is about that. Read it.

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   E-Myth Revisited - by Michael Gerber

   https://sivers.org/book/EMythRevisited

   Absolutely everyone who is an entrepreneur or wants to be one needs to read this book. I first read it after 10 years of successfully running my company, and was still blown away and totally humbled by its wisdom. Re-reading it today, I'm amazed how my view of business was completely changed by this one little book. See my notes for examples, but definitely read the book itself to get the real impact.

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   The Courage to Be Disliked - by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

   https://sivers.org/book/Disliked

   Wow. A profound little philosophy book from Japan, communicating the psychology of Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud. Told as a conversation between an angry student and a patient teacher. A little book so good that I rushed home from other activites to keep reading it, and finished in a day. A surprisingly fresh perspective on how to live. (The “disliked” part is not the point, so don’t let the title distract you.)

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2. tokenadultJun 2014
   Seeing the discussion here, I'll recommend to the Hacker News readers who haven't heard about it yet the new book Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want,[1] which reviews research on topics like this and a lot of other mysteries of the human mind. It's a book based on current experimental research in psychology, but it has had some good editing to be a readable, interesting popular book that will reliably prompt you to think about aspects of your thinking you perhaps have not thought about recently. (I'm reading the book right now, which is why this comes to mind.) I think reading Mindwise just might help you understand yourself better, understand your significant other better, understand your co-workers better, and understand the group dynamics on Hacker News better, and anyway it's fun to read.

   [1] http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/nicholas.epley/html/Mindwise...

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3. thisisitMar 2018
   Regarding the Mindwise book, I recently read Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis where he talks about (at least what I interpreted) the silliness of good vs evil and differing beliefs. I haven't read his 2nd book but the title - " The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion", suggests it might be something similar to the Mindwise book.
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