Books you should read to learn something about everything
Deepak Mehta
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Deepak Mehta
Sales, Presales, Strategy Expert | IIMA | BITS Pilani | FRM? | PMx3 (Project, Product, Program Manager) | Writer | Wanderer
- A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson: As the name suggests, to learn a bit about everything since the beginning of the universe.
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee: Morality
- The Bhagavad Gita : Anonymus, Laurie L. Patton: On how to lead a good life
- The Silmarillion: J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien: Fantasy world building
- Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner: Philosophy
- Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury: On the dangers of government autonomy and censorship
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: Bill Watterson: To re-live one's childhood
- The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Richard Howard: As a partner to Calvin and Hobbes; as a fond recollection to childhood and a social commentary on the nuances of adulthood
- To understand what it is like to live under constant fear, tyranny, and prosecution.
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In: Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton- On the art of negotiation
- Animal Farm: George Orwell: On the evils of Communism
- The Origin of Species: Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley: Evolution
- Harry Potter : J. K. Rowling: To understand the value of friendship and courage
- Liar's Poker : Michael Lewis: To understand the machinations of Wall Street
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management: Roger Lowenstein: How even Economics nobel laureates do not have it all figured out
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner: Reflecting on Murphy's Law and the Law of unintended consequences.
- Outliers: The Story of Success: Malcolm Gladwell: To understand how even the smallest and random-est of events can completely change the outcome
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Resilience and Risk Management
9 年My favorite: ?The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Business Leader - Entrepreneur - Sports
9 年HP Series, quite an interesting addition to the list.
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9 年Adding to the list!