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2020年Dan Larimer推荐书目/Dan Larimer’s Recommended Reading (2020)

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2019年我在生活中留出空间进行阅读,这一年也是我最值得、变化最大的一年。书籍蕴含的思想深度和广度是博客、播客、或推文无法比拟的。书海浩瀚,选一本好书不易,我也由衷感谢这一年给我荐书的粉丝和朋友。

本文关于我读过的书和它们对我的影响。我希望每个人都能因为知识获益,也能和我一样,从这些阅读中获得更广的视野。但开始之前,我希望如果你还没有阅读的习惯,请尽量培养这样的习惯,因为通过阅读的习惯,你可以锻炼思维、也更能为自己创造想要的生活。如果你觉得这很困难,那么我建议你从詹姆斯·克利尔这本《原子习惯》开始。

《原子习惯》

我的推荐书目范围很广、包含各类书籍,但是它们的共同点是都让我对现实有了更好地理解,有些书科学性强、有些则是比较

阅读差不多是我能找到的唯一一条能让人更深入地理解和洞见复杂观点的道路。如果你不能挤出阅读的时间,那么就在通勤的时候听有声书。我特别强调,从阅读中获得的信息和生活理念是无价之宝,只要你能学以致用,它就能给你生活带来巨大的财富。

因为阅读,我已经减了30磅,每周至少健身3次,每天早上6点就起床,每天冥想,生活更有调理、沟通更加顺畅、朋友更多、关系更深入、饮食更健康。我也逃脱了“万事无意义”的心里陷阱,获得新的力量让我意识到我的任务是为所有人保障生命、自由、财产和正义。这还是2019年我生命巨大转折的冰山一角而已。我衷心希望,你能通过这些书实现相似的突破。

《反脆弱:从世界的不确定性中获利》

纳西姆·塔勒布的《反脆弱》改变了我看待事物的方法,我不在只是观察,现在我还会实践。这本书有些地方很难,但是理解脆弱(fragile)、坚韧(resilience)和反脆弱(antifragile)几个概念却是很重要的。“反脆弱”这个词字典上查不到,它的定义是什么,我们也不知道。这就好像我们在有了“蓝色”这个词之前就要去理解世界一样。蓝色一直存在,我们只是很难把天空的颜色描述给别人。我在阅读这本书的时候才开始真正每周锻炼三天。它还影响了无数了软件设计决策、投资决策和其它我生活中微妙的地方。它还坚定了我既有的信念:社会上中心化的机构和政府所谓让我们“安全”的措施最终会导致后院失火、社会崩溃,因为我们失去了经历变化的体验,也因为我们避免了“小错误”,而当真正的挑战来临的时候,而这些都削弱了我们的社会,当真正的问题到来的时候,它就无力应对。植被、动物和人类,如果都避免了突变和偶然,那么它们就会变得脆弱,最终就不能支撑自己,也就只剩死路一条。进化本身就是依靠突变的,只有最适应突变的,长远来看才能活下来。

《非对称风险:风险共担,应对现实世界中的不确定性》

《非对称风险》

同样是纳西姆·塔勒布写的这本《非对称风险》是反脆弱概念的应用,这本书相比起来更好理解。如果你想了解为什么有些激励会失调、为什么机构会遇到大大小小的各种问题,那么你可以在这本书找到答案。这本书完全驳斥了一些常见的做法。当某个没有和你共担财产风险的人要给你“客观的意见”时,突然间,你就会三思了。

我们的社会中,很多时候决策者做的决定并不会影响到他们自己。管理者受到的激励机制是要说“不”,因为新的做法如果成功了,他们不能获益,但如果失败了,他们就得负责。大多数法律和法规的制定者不需要对他们的行为带来的后果负责:他们花的是别人的时间和金钱。如果你也在思考,哪些激励机制失调了,继而影响到你的公司、家庭和社区,那么这本书就是一个很好的开端。

《人生十二法则》

《人生十二法则》

乔丹·彼得森这本《人生十二法则》改变了我的生活,也改变了我看待文化和宗教的方式。这本书是建立在《反脆弱》相同的观点之上的,因为它清晰地展示了诚实和道义以及生和死的关系。我一直觉得我自己是一个很有道德的人,我有“正义感”,而这本书重点在“说真话,至少别说假话”。

我对圣经故事的价值、智慧和心理作用有了新的认识。从我放弃“对圣经的信仰”之后,这还是第一次我看到并意识到这些故事中包含的深刻的智慧和价值。我可以听人们说宗教观点,而不会觉得厌恶。我现在可以看到文化的价值、意识到社会从接受一个不能完全被科学证实的信仰和传统中可以获得的无言的好处。我在阅读的时候,我的生活有了新的责任感,我也获得新的用去,能够直面真相,不管结果如何。如果我们不敢面对现实,那么我们就生活在谎言中,或者也会让身边的人基于谎言做决定。任何事情,如果它是基于一个谎言的,那么它就背离了现实,这就会让我们自己,让全人类,走向灭亡。

《让心自由:托尔特克智者的四个约定》

《让心自由》

堂·路易兹这本《让心自由》是另一个能够让你从不健康的思维模式和其它你不自觉和自己和社会做的“约定”中解放出来的好书。这本书让你注意到你每天在履行的不自觉的约定,这样你才能自由地选择你的未来。

第一个约定—不说违心的话—讲的是正直和恪守真理。这又和《人生十二法则》及《反脆弱》一脉相承,它强调了如果我们不能坚守真理,我们就不能信任自己和他人,那么生活也就一团糟。如果没有坚守真理,我们就现在谎言和虚假信息中,我们就不能在真理之外找到生活中各种问题的“解决方法”。

《水的第四阶段:固态、液态和气态之后》

杰拉尔德·波拉克的《水的第四阶段》会让你耳目一新、让你永远改变看待水的方法。如果你特别推崇物理、化学、电学,那么你肯定会喜欢这本书,因为它有稳固的现实和科学方法指导,它也和公认的物理“定理”保持一致。尽管如果,它还是会永远地改变我们如何看待水,如何看待水对生命和能量本质的影响。

读完这本书,你会了解到“科学”界是怎么刻意“失明”,知道面对着关于水和水的第四态各种过去无法解释的现象,传统的科学家是如何兴致乏乏。

《信念的力量:新生物学给我们的启示》

《信念的力量》

布鲁斯·利普顿的《信念的力量》能够改变你对人类细胞的本质的看法。这本书的作者是一个细胞生物学家,他有着对现实的唯物主义观点,本书能够带你深入了解一个细胞组织是怎么活动的、什么“给了它们生命”、以及它们怎么“思考“。

布鲁斯驳斥了常见的DNA的作用、“细胞核是细胞的大脑”等观点,他震惊地发现,单个细胞组织是由细胞“外”的某个存在引导的,“细胞膜”有着电脑芯片类似的结构。布鲁斯关于生命和现实的观点在自己的研究中被完全改变了。

如果你已经读过《水的第四个阶段》,那么这本书就更有说服力了。再一次,你会感受到,由政府资助的研究以及主流媒体宣传的科研,它们是怎样刻意失明、为某些组织服务的。

更重要的是,它让你能够理解,“思想”比“物质”重要,它可以解释安慰剂效应,也能说明为什么它有强大的治愈能力。读完这本书,你很难继续当一个坚定的唯物主义者、很难在生物学上坚信牛顿主义。现在,我们应该让生物学观点进入量子时代了。

《哥们,这不正常:一个农场主关于快乐鸡、健康人、好世界的建议》

《哥们,这不正常》

乔尔·沙拉丁的《哥们,这不正常》能让你大开眼界,你会了解到我们的农业系统和我们吃的食物是如何不堪。乔尔的农场离我家不过几小时路程,我有幸在他的农场拜会了乔尔。当今社会,我们很大程度上已经和我们的食品以及食品如何培育脱勾了,在吃这方面,我们完全没有“风险共担”。

你有没有想过为什么现代人这么虚、这么胖?我们该看看自己的食品系统了。从我们吃的食品、从我们购买食品的对象中解放出来,这样我们才能保持一个反脆弱的食品系统和社会,这本书,以及乔尔另一本《我想做的都犯法》,关注的是政府怎样操控出售不健康或者完全有毒的食品,又怎样禁止销售健康、营养的天然食品。

《农场到餐桌暴动》

《农场到餐桌暴动》

我在乔尔·沙拉丁的农场发现了尼提·巴利这本《农场到餐桌暴动》。它讲的是一群人只吃本地利用最好的再生(比有机更高)方法培育的食品,最终他们改善了自己的健康,也“治愈”了不治之症。这本书的前提是在毒这个问题上,不存在二八法则。

这本书展示了我们“疗养”业是多么落后,也展现了我们不停的摄入有毒的食物之后我们给自己、给爱人带来了多大的伤害。

当然了,只吃她描述的这种高质量食物是很困难的,不过它可能能给你增加好几十年的高质量生活、治疗你的慢性病。又一次,我们看到了当政府法规推崇什么有“医疗”价值的健康食物时,这些法规是怎样在干涉人们的自由的。食品和医药行业根本不想让人们知道,如果他们有合适的营养、不摄入我们一直在吃的毒素,那么他们的身体完全可以自愈。

《疫苗,自体免疫,和儿童疾病的变化本质》

《疫苗,自体免疫,和儿童疾病的变化本质》

托马斯·科万这本《疫苗、自体免疫、和儿童疾病的变化本质》基于我们从《反脆弱》、《信念的力量》和《水的第四阶段》中获得的知识。它提出了一个重要的根本问题:为什么现在的孩子有这么多慢性病?过去60年发生了什么,从根本上改变了我们的社会和孩子的健康。不明原因的慢性病、过敏和自身免疫性疾病肆虐,这些都让我们的医疗系统陷入困境。

这本书讨论的是疫苗的话题,它问了一些政府不允许我们讨论的问题。我鼓励所有思想开放、信任科学的人都要读一读这本书。它还提出了我们食品系统的问题,也有效地推荐了尼提·巴利和乔尔·沙拉丁一样的饮食方式。如果你所知的关于免疫系统的所有知识都是错的怎么办?如果政府和媒体都不可信怎么办?你真的知道疫苗的负面影响吗?如果我们从根本上在破坏我们的健康、破坏免疫系统和病毒打仗的能力怎么办?这本书太重要了,你绝对不能错过。想想我们的孩子吧!

《赢在转念间:突破的三大法则》

《赢在转念间》

史蒂夫·扎福和大卫·洛根的《赢在转念间》是一本杰出的案例分析,让我们了解我们的观念怎么塑造了现实。这本书涉及很多Landmark论坛的观点和特色,我高度推荐任何想要改变人生的人忘掉过去、书写自己的未来。

《赢在转念间》写的是如果从内向外改变企业,它分析了好几个备受瞩目的案例,探讨企业如何利用这些法则改变了公司。

说真话这个主题又贯穿全文,这又和我书单的其它几本书紧密相关,包括《让心自由》、《人生十二法则》、《七个习惯》、《信念的力量》等。

《平均值缺陷》

《平均值缺陷》

我觉得萨姆·L·萨维奇这本《平均值缺陷》非常有启发性,尤其是有这么多人都靠平均值做决定的时候。这本书解释了哪怕一个湖平均只有1英寸深,为什么涉水过湖依然可能会被溺死。它展示了为什么你不能仅仅从数学上把平均值和其它平均值结合起来就获得有用的信息。

再一次,反脆弱中很多数学概念被放出来了。你读这本书之后,看待平均数的方法必然截然不同,未来看到主流媒体基于“数据事实”的结论的时候,你也会有健康的怀疑。

《你会更富还是更穷》

《你会更富还是更穷》

查尔斯·休·史密斯这本《你会更富还是更穷》是一本让你看待财富本质的书。我们生活的这个世界,只要不能被经济衡量,这个东西的价值就会打折扣、被低估。我们的货币体系缺少道义,哪怕我们的购买力在下降,它还是让我们感觉我们的财富在增长。我们掏空了这个星球的资源,只为了今天的利益,却完全没考虑子孙后代。

如果你已经读完了乔尔·沙达丁的书,你就会知道现在的农场技术对未来产生多大的影响。每天工业农场主都觉得自己“更有钱了”同时,我们的土壤正在死去。我们的媒体和政府系统地摧毁了我们发现真理的能力。我们的身体也被这个拜金的体系伤得体无完肤。

我从本书获得的一个观点是,如果你不试着去量化生活的质量,那么哪怕你的银行账户在增长,你也是越来越穷的。就算你获得了整个世界,但是你失去了自己的灵魂,这有什么用呢?人类再也无法生产食物之后,你从出售食物中获得大量黄金,这有什么用呢?如果整个社会乱到你根本不能出门,财富自由又有什么用呢?这本书提到了许多我们急需的观点,让我们知道我们要怎么衡量生活中和社会中的得失。

2015年以来的推荐阅读

上一次我写推荐阅读书单还是五年前,所以如果你当时不知道的话,现在可以看看清单:

  1. 《如何在不自由的世界找到自由》
  2. 《聪明人的自我发展:有意识地寻求个人财富》
  3. 《当下的力量:找回每时每刻的自己》
  4. 《金钱上的错误》
  5. 《法制土地上的冒险》
  6. 《解码:美国税收制度的迷人真相》
  7. 《接地气、不生病》
  8. 《新神圣几何学:弗兰克·切斯特的艺术与科学》
  9. 《反知识产权垄断》
  10. 《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》
  11. 《非叛国:无权威的宪法》
  12. 《非暴力沟通:一种生活语言》

我不敢说2020年的这份书单大体更有价值,但是我不能否认的是,我从2015年的推荐书单上获得的关于生活的观点极大地影响了我看待2019年读过的这些书的立场。

原文/Original:

In 2019 I created new space in my life to read and it has been one of my most rewarding and transformational years. Books express ideas with a level of depth and richness that is not possible to achieve in a blog post, podcast, or tweet. Choosing which book to read can be challenging given the millions of books available, so I am eternally grateful to my twitter followers and friends who recommended some of the books I read this year.

This post presents the books I read and the value they added to my life. It is my hope and desire that everyone has the benefits of the knowledge and perspective I have gained as a result of this reading. Before I dive into the books, I would encourage those of you who don’t have a habit of reading to develop the habit because through the habit of reading you develop your mind and enhance your opportunity to create the life you always wanted. If you are having trouble developing such a habit, then I suggest you start with the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Atomic Habits

My recommended reading list is wide and varied, but ultimately it is all interrelated in that it gives me a better understanding of reality. Some books are deeply scientific and others semi-spiritual but nonetheless practical in helping design your life.

Reading books is pretty much the only way I have found to gain a deep understanding and insight around complex ideas. If you cannot create the time to read, then repurpose your commute and listen to them as audio books. I cannot stress enough that the information and perspective on life gained from reading these books is valuable and will pay huge dividends in your life to the extent you apply what you learn.

As a result of these books I have lost 30 pounds, started working out 3+ times per week, get up at 6AM every day, meditate every day, have become more organized, am a better communicator, have more friends and deeper relationships and eat healthier than ever. I also managed to escape the mental trap of “everything is meaningless” and access new power to realize my mission to secure life, liberty, property and justice for all. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the transformation I have seen in my life in 2019. I truly hope that you can realize similar breakthroughs in your life through these books.

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb changed the way I view everything from investing to exercising. This book can be a bit challenging in places, but understanding the distinction between fragile, resilient, and antifragile is critical. Prior to this book the word antifragile wasn’t even in the dictionary and the concept wasn’t available to us. It is like trying to understand the world prior to the word “blue” being distinguished. The color blue would still exist, we would just have a hard time describing the color of the sky to people. It was through reading this book that I started to reliably exercise three times per week. It also informed countless software design decisions, investment decisions, and other subtle aspects in my life. It reaffirmed my belief that the complex centralized institutions of society and attempts made by the government to keep us “safe” will ultimately backfire in spectacular collapse as the loss of volatility and prevention of “small failures” weaken society when a real challenge comes. Plants, animals, and people shielded from volatility and randomness are weak and ultimately unable to support themselves and die. Evolution itself depends upon volatility and only those most adapted to volatility survive in the long run.

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Skin in the Game

Skin in the Game, also by Nassim Taleb, is a somewhat more consumable application of the concept of antifragility. If you are interested in understanding why incentives are misaligned and institutions suffer from small and large forms of corruption then book lays it out. It turns commonly accepted practices on their head. All of a sudden you will think twice before taking the “unbiased opinion” of someone who has no financial skin in the game.

Our society creates many situations where the people making decisions are not impacted by the decision they make. Regulators are incentivised to say “no” because they get no benefit from the success of new endeavors but can be held accountable if they fail. Most laws and regulations are written by people who are not responsible for the consequences of their actions: they are spending other people’s time and money. If you are looking for ideas on where incentives are misaligned in a way that could come back to hurt your company, family, or community, then this is a great place to start.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

12 Rules for Life

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson changed my life and transformed the way I view culture and religion. This book built upon ideas I gleaned from Antifragile in that it showed the relationship between honesty and integrity and life and death very clearly. I have always considered myself a moral person with a sense of “justice”, and this book raised the stakes on “telling the truth, or at least don’t lie”.

I gained new insights into the value, wisdom, and psychological significance of biblical stories. For the first time since I abandoned my “faith in the bible” I have seen and realized the deep wisdom and value embedded in the stories. I can listen to people talk about religious concepts without being disgusted or bored. I now see the value of culture and the unstated benefits society has derived by adopting a belief and tradition that isn’t completely justified by science. Through reading this book I took new responsibility for my life and gained new courage to face the truth regardless of the consequences. If we aren’t able to face the truth then we are living a lie or causing others around us to make decisions based on a lie. Any action that is derived from belief in a lie is out of alignment with reality and takes ourselves and mankind closer to death.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

The Four Agreements

The Four Agreements by Don Ruiz is another great book which helps you break free from unhealthy thought patterns and other “agreements” which you unconsciously make with yourself and society. By bringing your attention to the unconscious agreements which you act out every day you gain freedom to choose your own future.

The first agreement, being impeccable with your word, speaks to integrity and a commitment to truth. This builds upon a common theme from The 12 Rules for Life and Antifragile that highlights how life just doesn’t work if we cannot trust ourselves or others without a commitment to the truth. Absent a commitment to the truth we are stuck dealing in lies and misinformation and no “solutions” to the problems in life can be found outside the truth.

The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack is one of those eye opening books that will forever change how you see water. Those of you with a strong appreciation for physics, chemistry, and electricity will like how grounded this book is in reality and the scientific method and how aligned it is with the generally accepted “laws” of physics. That said, this book fundamentally changes how we view water and its impact on the nature of life and energy.

After reading this book you will have a new appreciation for just how willfully blind the “scientific” community has become and the utter lack of curiosity by traditional scientists in the face of numerous previously unexplained phenomena surrounding water and its structure in the fourth phase.

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

The Biology of Belief

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton is one of those books that will change your perspective about the fundamental nature of individual cells. Written by a cellular biologist with a materialistic view of reality, this book gives deep insight into the nature of how single cell organisms operate and what “gives them life” and how they “think”.

Common notions such as the role of DNA and the “Nucleus is the Brain” are demolished as Bruce makes a startling discovery that single cell organisms are guided by something “outside” their cells and that the “cell membrane” has a similar structure to computer chips. Bruce’s view of the nature of life and reality was fundamentally transformed through his study.

This book is all the more compelling if you have already read the Fourth Phase of Water. Once again you are left feeling that science as blessed by government funded research and presented in mainstream media is willfully blind and serving some other agenda.

More importantly it gives you insight that “mind” really is over “matter” and can explain the placebo effect and its powerful ability to heal. After reading this book it is hard to remain a die-hard materialist with a Newtonian view of biology. It is time we adapt our view of biology to the Quantum era.

Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Folks, this ain’t Normal

Folks, this ain’t normal by Joel Salatin is one of those books that opens your eyes to the corruption of our agriculture system and the food we eat. I had the opportunity to meet Joel and see his farm, which is just a couple hours from my home. Our society today is largely disconnected from our food and how it is grown, and there is nothing we have more “skin in the game” than what we eat.

Ever wonder why people are so sick and fat? It is time we started looking at our food system. Freedom over what we eat and who we buy it from is critical to maintaining an antifragile food system and society. This book and Joel’s other book, Everything I want to do is Illegal, highlight how our government is mandating unhealthy or downright poisonous food while making healthy nutritious and natural foods illegal to sell.

Farm to Fork Meat Riot

Farm to Fork Meat Riot

Farm to Fork Meat Riot by Niti Bali is a book I discovered while visiting Joel Salatin’s farm. It tells the stories of people who transformed their health and “cured” the incurable by adopting a strict policy of only eating food from local farmers utilizing the best regenerative (beyond organic) practices. The premise of the book is that there is no 80/20 rule with poison.

This book demonstrates just how backward our “sick care” industry is and how much damage we are doing to ourselves and our loved ones by consuming a continuous diet of low-dose poisons.

It is certainly challenging to live a life eating food of the quality she describes, but it might just add decades of high quality living to your life and cure your chronic illnesses. Once again we see a theme of government regulations interfering with the freedom of people to promote “healthy food” as having “medicinal” benefits. The food and drug industry doesn’t want people getting the idea that their bodies are capable of healing themselves given proper nutrition and eliminating the poisons we continually inundate ourselves with.

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness

Vaccines Autoimmunity, and the changing Nature of Childhood Illness

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness by Thomas Cowan builds on top of the knowledge we learn from Antifragile, Biology of Belief, and the Fourth Phase of Water. It asks the an important and fundamental question: why are there so many chronic illnesses in children today? Something has changed in the past 60 years which has fundamentally altered the health of our society and children. A pandemic of unexplained chronic illnesses, allergies, and autoimmune disorders is crippling our medical system.

The book touches on the topic of vaccines and asks questions that we are not allowed to ask. I encourage everyone with an open mind and a belief in the scientific method to read this book. It also highlights the problem with our food system and effectively recommends the same kind of diet as Niti Bali and Joel Salatin. What if everything you think you know about how the immune system works is wrong? What if our government and the media cannot be trusted? What do you really know about the side effects of vaccination? What if we are fundamentally undermining our health and weakening our immune systems ability to fight other diseases? This book is too important to skip, please, will somebody think about the children!

The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

The three Laws of Performance

The Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan is an outstanding case study in how our beliefs shape our reality. This book covers many of the ideas and distinctions of the Landmark Forum which I highly recommend for anyone looking to transform their lives, put their past behind them, and author their own future.

The three laws of performance shows how to transform businesses from the inside out and goes over a number of high profile case studies in how companies utilized these laws to turn their companies around.

Once again the theme of integrity to your word comes through strongly which ties into the principles from other books on my list including: The Four Agreements, 12 Rules for LIfe, Seven Habits, Biology of Belief, and others.

The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty

The Flaw of Averages

I found The Flaw of Averages by Sam L Savage to be incredibly enlightening, especially because so many people rely upon averages to make decisions. This book explains how it is possible to drown while crossing a lake that is on average 1 foot deep. It shows how you cannot mathematically combine averages with other averages to derive meaningful information.

Once again many of the mathematical concepts from Antifragile are on display. Once you read this book you will no longer look at any average the same again and will have a healthy skepticism for all of the conclusions presented by the mainstream media based upon “statistical facts”.

Will You be Richer or Poorer

Will You be Richer or Poorer

Will you Be Richer or Poorer by Charles Hugh Smith is one of those books that makes you look at the true nature of wealth. We live in a society where anything that cannot be measured is discounted and undervalued by the economy. Our monetary system lacks integrity and creates the perception of gains in wealth even as our purchasing power erodes. We strip mine our planet of resources to profit today and leave nothing to future generations.

If you have read the books by Joel Salatin you will appreciate the impact our farming techniques are having on our future. Each day industrial farmers think they are “growing richer” meanwhile our soil is dead and dying. Our media and government are systematically destroying our ability to discern truth. Our health is undermined by a system that values monetary profit over all else.

One of the things I took away from this book is that if you don’t attempt to measure and quantify the qualitative aspects of life then you may actually be getting poorer as your bank account grows. What good is it to gain the whole world but lose your soul? What good is it to have all the gold you earn from selling food after people are no longer able to produce food? What good is financial freedom if society is too dangerous to leave your house? This book provides some much needed perspective on how we account for profit and loss in our life and as a society.

Recommended Reading from 2015

It has been 5 years since I last published a recommended reading list. So for those who didn’t catch it here is the quick list:

  1. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
  2. Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
  3. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
  4. Mises on Money
  5. Adventures in Legal Land
  6. Cracking the Code – The Fascinating Truth about Taxation in America
  7. Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?
  8. A New Sacred Geometry: The Art and Science of Frank Chester
  9. Against Intellectual Monopoly
  10. Atlas Shrugged
  11. No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
  12. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

I would venture to say that the 2020 list is largely more valuable, but I cannot deny that the perspective on life I gained from my 2015 recommended reading list contributed significantly to how I interpreted the books I read in 2019.

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