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Danny Kouba

What's the most powerful book you have ever read?

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I recently bought the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill at a well-known bookstore for $4. I absolutely do not understand how this is possible, because I have to say that it is probably the best book I have ever read. And it was only $4, WTF?! So, what's the most powerful book you have ever read?

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Jacopo Lai
I'm not into excessive reading but "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" by Jordan B. Peterson is the most powerful book I've ever read. It has helped me create a better professional and personal vision for life.
Joan Mateo Duarte 🚀
Zero to One from Peter Thiel. Great book if you are starting a Startup.
Heide Plock
@joanduarte this one is truly great! I liked it as well. However, my favorite book is Hamlet, I don't know why but its just special for me. Moreover, I recently came across this website https://studydriver.com/hamlet/ and found lots of interesting information about my favorite book, and now I like it even more!
Ghost Kitty
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Danny Kouba
@jason_andries1 Yes! Totally different book but definitely my second favorite. I read it about 5 times :D
Kira
@jason_andries1 I love the book as well! Every time I read it I learnt something new.
Aaron O'Leary
Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan, it's about a really dark time in recent Irish history. Not powerful in the sense of business etc but powerful in the sense of understanding just how much women in Ireland went through because of the state and religion
Jon Zhang
Principles by Ray Dalio It should be good book for every one.
Swati Navalkar
The Alchemist. I have read it once and it was such a magical experience. Whenever I remember about it, it just fills me with hope and positivity.
Rachana
Mastery by Robert Green and Meeting the Shadow by Connie Zweig
Martin Moravek
The Big Four :-) The story behind Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
Ben Kaiser
Think and grow rich was great! I Heavily suggest; How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie.
Nick Hintze
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley, a biologist and historian who talks about innovative products and their evolution as if they were specimen. It’s fascinating.
Sarah Hussain
@nick_hintze omg I love Ridley's work so much! I read Genome, and as a Biologist it was an absolute delight!
Elena Albright
'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman (Nobel prize winner). The book is about behavioral economics and explains basic heuristics in judgment and decision-making and cognitive biases that we have with scientific proofs. Reading helps you notice bias you have but didn't used to acknowledge this. So I think this book allows me to make more thoughtful decisions now and notice when I perceive something as a fact but irl it's nothing but a bias. I'd definitely recommend it!
Chris Watson
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, and The Alchemist- These are some of the best books ever!
Nithin Jawahar
@excellentweb_australia Rich Dad, Poor Dad was one of the very first non-fiction books I read while I was in college. That's where it all started.
Carly Chen
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success - by Sean Ellis. I love it so much!
Swapnil D Puranik
Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - this book has single-handedly changed the way I do business, build partnerships, choose whom to work with and what to say yes to.
Anfas Ashrf
"The story of my life" Is an autobiogrophy of Helen Keller.It's a powerfulbook i ever read. Its a survival story of a lady with deaf and blind.
Muskan Keshervani
I am recently reading The Kite Runner, how nicely they have captured the emotions of a young teenager and they have mentioned all the phases of life rich-poor, life-death.
Viktoriia Romanchenko
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy by William Von Hippel Lots of insights about human beings. So so interesting. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund This book made my mind happy. Finally a positive outlook on the world, backed by data. So important to keep perspective.
Murali Gottumukkala
The alchemist
Vijay Singh Khatri
The Lean Startup.
Apollon Latsoudis
Think and Grow Rich is very good! It also includes informative examples. Having said that, "Foucault Pendulum" by Umberto Uco remains my favorite with the "Art of Learning? Josh Waitzkin being a close second