What book(s) really caused a mindset shift for you, and in what way?

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: HotChic


You have more than 700 posts per month and they look like they're nearly all in OT.


How many PMs have you gotten lately with people who appreciate the contribution you're making to the forums?

700.


Don't be so oblivious. I was being humorous, and I even answered your question. If you were a little sharper you would have seen that.

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[miketheidiot]

1984, lies my teacher taught me, a peoples history of the United states, but most off all :

Originally posted by: Yossarian
Catch 22. I'm not kidding.

me too

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
1984, lies my teacher taught me, a peoples history of the United states, but most off all :

Originally posted by: Yossarian
Catch 22. I'm not kidding.

me too

In what way?

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
1984,

Someday, that will cease to be science fiction and it will be re-filed into the "History" section.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: SampSon

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Hey you guuuys!

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
1984, lies my teacher taught me, a peoples history of the United states, but most off all :

Originally posted by: Yossarian
Catch 22. I'm not kidding.

me too

In what way?

it made me look at everything a bit differently, everything we do just seemed a little bit more, absurd, i guess. Is a very hard change to quantify, i don't know how exactly to describ e it.

 

[daveymark]

how to win friends and influence people

 

[bleeb]

BIBLE

Edit: It's pretty self-explanatory of why this book creates a mindshift in people.

 

[djheater]

Freedom from the known

Without a doubt the most dramatically life altering book Ive ever read.
It validated my own conclusions in a way no other book has ever done, including the bible

Through the inner dialogue this book inspired I was able to define myself as a spiritual non-christian which made a dramatic impact in my life.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
1984, lies my teacher taught me, a peoples history of the United states, but most off all :

Originally posted by: Yossarian
Catch 22. I'm not kidding.

me too

In what way?

it made me look at everything a bit differently, everything we do just seemed a little bit more, absurd, i guess. Is a very hard change to quantify, i don't know how exactly to describ e it.

It teaches laughter. Life may be a b!tch, but it's also so absurd that it's funny and if we learn to laugh we are like the immortals.

ZV

 

[dopcombo]

Right now, I'm reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, the NYT columnist. It's quite an eye-opener.

 

[DAGTA]

The Bible - helps guide me daily in my faith.
Power Vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins - opened my eyes to a level of understanding about the universe that I had somehow always felt inside of me but had never been able to put it into words.
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau - summarizes much of what I've been learning for the past few years and paints quite the picture of our reality.
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis - many of the classical arguments for/against Christianity in one dialogue-like book. Very highly recommended to anyone even remotely interested in Christianity.

 

[hrothgar22]

The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley. While some of it is just plain incomprehensible(to me at least), the parts that deal with our attempts at understanding others are quite interesting.

 

[MommysLittleMonster]

Kama Sutra

 

[Rogue]

Black Hawk Down

It helped me to realize that no matter what good we try to bring to people, they will hate us for it somehow, some way. It also provided the best description I've read to date of modern warfare and the soldier's mind set and decision making powers in such a situation. So complex (save lives) yet so equally simple (by taking lives).

 

[CMC79]

No one particular work did it for me, but the works of British conservatives like Edmund Burke and Michael Oakeshott changed my politics, and my macro-econ course in college opened me to a whole new field of study.

 

[jds2006]

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sofia Kinsella

Even though the main character was well meaning and all, I've learned never to overspend like she does. Good and funny novel though!