Development


Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Development as Freedom
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
B.F. Skinner
“ A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. ”
― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

Winston S. Churchill
“ How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its digni ...more ”
― Winston Churchill, The River War

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