Self Study


Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
How to Win Friends & Influence People
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Man's Search for Meaning
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The 48 Laws of Power
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
A person can draw from three resources to understand and evaluate human existence: study of self, observation of other people, and reading books. Self-study is the most difficult learning methodology and it is rife with dangerous pretentions, but also the most fruitful. Studying other people is infinitely fallible because of our inability to establish an unbiased perspective and the subjects’ propensity to hide their secret thoughts, which obscures our vision. Book reading is a laborious process ...more
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Without the fervor to taste life’s bewitching fruit and in absence of a keenness to gain personal knowledge gained through exploring, probing, surveillance, and self-scrutiny, I risk apathy, befuddlement, and lethargy overwhelming me.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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