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I asked, "What book created the biggest mental shift in your life?"

I received 275+ responses.

Here are 20 books that might just change your life forever:

1/

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

by @naval

https://t.co/um57bqV3zP

2/

The Choice

by @DrEdithEger1

https://t.co/JRoK7kMTRK

3/

Atomic Habits

by @JamesClear

https://t.co/pd1ZppYRd2

4/

The 48 Laws of Power

@RobertGreene

https://t.co/kWg0OotYuP

5/

The Psychology of Money

by @morganhousel

https://t.co/YDHvxOGd2r

6/

Thinking, Fast & Slow

by @kahneman_daniel

https://t.co/fFNZaN9hEe

7/

The Millionaire Fastlane

by @MJDeMarco

https://t.co/bumi35ey3g

8/

The Power of Now

by @EckhartTolle

https://t.co/av37TdQg4E

9/

The 4-Hour Workweek

by @tferriss

https://t.co/LMbMcFsvuR

10/

Being Mortal

by @Atul_Gawande

https://t.co/FVPkUO24qm

11/

Rich Dad Poor Dad

by @theRealKiyosaki

https://t.co/A2fIGOTSOC

12/

You Are a Badass

by @JenSincero

https://t.co/QiJcxm7YWn

13/

Essentialism

by @GregoryMcKeown

https://t.co/pptIrPfLAO

14/

How To Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

https://t.co/vHu8S2sWO4

15/

Man's Search For Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

https://t.co/iBBLcwIQMb

16/

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

https://t.co/Xt8h8hPSQd

17/

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda

https://t.co/uLZYZRpFwC

18/

Poor Charlie's Almanack

by Charlie Munger

https://t.co/0jynBMo7aE

19/

12 Rules for Life

by @jordanbpeterson

https://t.co/IRO30NhC9r

20/

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

by @ScottAdamsSays

https://t.co/Kif1arKHvT

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The world's 30 most beautiful bookshops:

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2. Arc N Book in Seoul, South Korea

3. Cărturești Carusel in Bucharest, Romania

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I love reading books.

I'm also a huge fan of reading newsletters.

Here are 7 newsletters I highly recommend checking out.

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The 3-2-1 newsletter by @JamesClear

This is a weekly email that includes 3 short ideas from James, 2 quotes from other people, and 1 question for you to

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Monday Musings & Friday Finds by @david_perell

In Monday Musings, David shares the coolest things he learned every week. In Friday Finds, he shares links to interesting pieces of content he discovered that week.

He's a master curator &

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Morning Brew by @austin_rief & @businessbarista

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Books can change the way you see the world.

The same is true about documentaries.

Here are 20 documentaries that might just change your life forever:

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible

Watch the incredible journey of how one man summits 14 of the world's tallest mountains in just 7 months.

The Last Dance

Never-before-seen footage of the legendary 1990s Chicago Bulls and how Michael Jordan leads the team to his final NBA championship.

Drive to Survive

Watch the highs and lows of the lives of 20 F1 drivers as they compete to win a world championship.

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@AlexAndBooks_

10 FREE websites for readers that are so valuable they feel illegal to know:

1) PDF Drive

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Link: https://t.co/PjwHymqLnm

2) Most Recommended Books

Want to know what books Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant, or other famous people recommend reading?

This site collects book recommendations from authors, entrepreneurs, investors, and other successful people.

Link: https://t.co/AhoJAZ9BQ5

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The Joe Rogan Experience is the biggest podcast in the world.

It got 2+ BILLION downloads last year alone.

Here are 20 @joerogan podcasts worth watching:

1/

Naval Ravikant (@naval)

Naval is a successful entrepreneur and investor who's also a brilliant thinker and philosopher. He shares a ton of original insightful advice on getting rich, being happy, and living a better life.

Listen

2/

David Goggins (@davidgoggins)

Goggins is one of the toughest men on the planet. He's an ex-Navy SEAL turned extreme endurance athlete who does 100+ mile runs for fun. If you want to develop a never-quit mindset, study him.

Listen

3/

MrBeast (@MrBeast)

MrBeast has 100+ million subscribers on YouTube, 50+ million followers on social media, and he's only 24. If you want to learn how to grow a huge audience, listen to this pod and take notes.

Listen here:

4/

Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

Not only is Elon one of the richest people in the world, but he's also one of the smartest. Listen to learn about how he sees the world, updates on Tesla and SpaceX, the thread of AI technology, and so much more.

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@YMehta_

#RS is an indicator which helps in finding strong stock or index in the market.

This learning thread would be on
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Shared some strategy.

Like👍 & Retweet🔄for wider reach and for more such learning thread in the future.

1/22

Most of us would confuse it with Relative Strength Index (RSI) but Relative Strength is a different indicator.

We have already covered about "Uses of RSI" in below thread👇
https://t.co/oTOrW7joNI

One can go through this if you haven't.

2/22

#RSI is a common indicator which most of us use in the stock market.

This learning thread would be on
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Like\U0001f44d & Retweet\U0001f504 for wider reach and for more such learning thread in the future.

Also, an investment strategy is shared using RSI in the end.

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— Yash Mehta (@YMehta_) October 22, 2021

Now coming to Relative Strength (RS).

It is basically a strategy used in momentum investing which shows strength or weakness between two asset classes (two stocks, index, commodity).

One can read about this in below

As of now, I am using this indicator on .@tradingview platform.

It's free and one can add it in their Tradingview account as well, using this link👇
https://t.co/FxCjJFsNOG

There are multiple variants in this as well. Some traders use multiple time frame RS.

4/22

RS basically compares returns of one stock/index with the returns of benchmark stock/index at a particular time horizon.

Let's say, I want to analyze TCS and Benchmark Index is Nifty.

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Up Learn
@up_learn

Learning myths #2: Learning formats 👇

Many believe that there are different types of learners

I.e. some people learn more effectively from visual material, some from auditory material and others from kinaesthetic practice

Therefore, instruction should be tailored to each learner’s preferred style (1/11)

Paul Howard-Jones (2014) suggested that this assumption is based on the fact that different regions of the cortex have different roles in visual, auditory, and sensory processing, so students should learn differently “according to which part of their brain works better” (2/11)

Yet, despite the popularity of the theory, there is ample evidence to contradict its validity (3/11)

Tesia Marshik (2015) gave an example of a study to test this.

Participants are given a list of words to memorise. They are either presented with the written list of words, with images of the words, or they listen to the words being read aloud (4/11)

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100 books that will boost your life + mindset

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@SahilBloom

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The Feynman Technique

To learn anything:

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True genius is the ability to simplify, not complicate.

Simple is beautiful.

Directional Arrow of Progress

"Study the undeniable arrows of progress." - @wolfejosh

The future is extremely difficult to predict—but there are clues.

Look at the trend line of progress and where it's pointing—directionally, not precisely.

Invest (or build) accordingly.

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix

Place all of your tasks on a 2x2 matrix of urgency and importance.

(1) Important & Urgent
(2) Important & Not Urgent
(3) Not Important & Urgent
(4) Not Important & Not Urgent

Prioritize, delegate, or delete accordingly.

The Regret Minimization Framework

The goal is to minimize the number of regrets in life.

When faced with a difficult decision:
(1) Project yourself into the future.
(2) Look back on the decision.
(3) Ask "Will I regret not doing this?"
(4) Take action.

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I studied math at Princeton - mostly because I hated writing.

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1/OK, I should really write another thread about university-centric regional development, because I think people often make some (very understandable) mistakes when thinking about this issue.

2/The biggest myth, I think, is that universities help regions by educating locals as undergraduates.

Skeptics of universities say: "But most of the people who graduate end up leaving."

3/In fact, most of what a university does for a regional economy is NOT about educating local kids.

Educating local kids is good for the nation, but doesn't help a region much.

The way a university helps a region is through

4/Undergraduates usually leave town after graduation.

But university RESEARCH pulls in OTHER smart people from other regions, and they stay there.

Here's a paper showing that this is the main way universities increase a region's human capital:

5/Research also pulls in business investment.

Companies want to partner with university labs, so they can commercialize the technologies the labs produce. So they invest in the labs, and sometimes they even put their offices in the town.

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I'm going to do two history threads on Ethiopia, one on its ancient history, one on its modern story (1800 to today). 🇪🇹

I'll begin with the ancient history ... and it goes way back. Because modern humans - and before that, the ancestors of humans - almost certainly originated in Ethiopia. 🇪🇹 (sub-thread):

The famous \u201cLucy\u201d, an early ancestor of modern humans (Australopithecus) that lived 3.2 million years ago, and was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, displayed in the national museum in Addis Ababa \U0001f1ea\U0001f1f9 pic.twitter.com/N3oWqk1SW2
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Ethiopians themselves believe that the Queen of Sheba, who visited Israel's King Solomon in the Bible (c 950 BC), came from Ethiopia (not Yemen, as others believe). Here she is meeting Solomon in a stain-glassed window in Addis Ababa's Holy Trinity Church. 🇪🇹

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Ok, I'll hop on this Elizabeth Warren/Native American testing bandwagon (gently and non-politically).

I've been a @23andMe customer for a while, and have followed their ancestry updates closely.

All is more or less as expected....except for this bit about Native American.

The family is almost completely composed of Spanish peasants (from various regions) who emigrated, along with a massive wave in the late 19th-cent./early 20th-cent., to Cuba back when it was a booming economy (richer than Spain's) and worth emigrating to (Communism killed that).

Also, the native population of Cuba was annihilated early on---was the first place the Spanish colonized after all. Having a native background in Cuba would be like having the same in, say, Massachusetts, particularly if you're (say) mostly Irish. Just really, really unlikely.

(Note: the North African/Arab background is less mysterious. The Iberian peninsula was part of the Muslim world for centuries. It would be odd *not* to have some Arab/Middle Eastern background coming from Spain. Given the family is mostly from Northern Spain, it's small though.)

I have a Spanish passport, have been back to the ancestral villages in Spain, seen the church where my grandmother was baptized, my grandfather told me stories about growing up as the child of Spanish colonists in rural Cuba. The native bit just clashes with all the family lore.

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In 1937, a trucker got frustrated waiting for his cargo to be unloaded. He later sold his company for $1.1 billion.

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In the early 1950s, the shipping industry was a dying business.

New York’s docks were handling half as much domestic cargo in the early 1950s as they had been in the depressed 1930s.

In thirty years, no one had invested significant money in coastal shipping.

Why?

As McLean found out, loading ships was difficult and slow.

A truck or train would deliver items to the port. Each item was unloaded separately, recorded, and carried to storage.

When a ship was ready, each item was taken from storage, counted again, and hauled on-board.

The cost of this labor was significant. As one expert at the time explained:

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Yet, despite the industry’s issues, it felt little pressure to change.

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Reshaping the industry needed an outsider.

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The Ife Primary Education Research Project (1970-1983).

aka

The Ife 6-Year Primary Project.

In 1970, as the Director of the Institute of Education of the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife), later Dean Faculty of Education, Prof. Babs Fafunwa & his team embarked on one of the most groundbreaking research projects in education for Yorubaland.

The aim of the project was to test the hypothesis that the best instructional medium for good concept formation at a very tender age is the mother tongue.

This was bolstered by the observation that “of all the continents and peoples of the world, it is only in Africa…

…that formal education is offered in a language that is foreign to the child.”

So, Yoruba was to be used & tested as an exclusive medium of passing information or instructions to a set of pupils.

The project was based on the premise that:

(a). the child will benefit culturally, socially, linguistically & cognitively.

(b). the child’s command of English will be improved if he is taught English as an entirely separate subject by a specialist teacher through the 6 years.