What’s one book if everyone read and understood the same way you do, the world would significantly improve?
Speaker for the Dead. If only the author internalized the important themes he wrote about.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams
Zero To One. Need to avoid hyper competition and just focus on what you think is important.
Why We Sleep. If more people understood why and how to get better sleep and prioritized it, would lead to better decisions, relationships, health, productivity, fewer accidents/errors, etc
Liftoff, maybe, for biography. Foundation, Ender's Shadow, & The Mote in God's Eye are pretty good as far as scifi. keep remembering other books that are great, tbqh, but I'll go with Ender's Shadow for the top pick for now.
The Evolution of Cooperation The first few chapters can seem slow and almost repetitive but are necessary for understanding the consequences of later chapters Short book and the outcomes were almost entirely unintuitive to me but also pretty profound https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366821
We are still the people we are, a sum of our experiences so i wouldn't give any book such a power, however, there are many books, that seemingly my personal world and if they would of others too then it's eventually a better world for everyone calvin and hobbes peanuts the old man and the sea my friend leonard
we can’t separate the mind from the heart so (2) books. (mind) mindset by carol dweck (heart) atlas of the heart by brene brown
going a little political — The War on Normal People — we are going to need UBI 🔜 maybe really soon if AI has a say. It led me to other learning & eventually to an abundance mindset which has dramatically changed my thinking about many things.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767680
"Science as a Candle in the Dark", by Carl Sagan. One of the best books I've read that draws parallels between things like alien sightings of today and demonic visitations of the past - illustrating our susceptibilities as humans and the importance of bearing them in mind as we navigate the world.
“Bhagavad Gita” Good thing about this book is, it’s made for everyone and it’s not biased for just one community. It answers our all questions regardless of our faith and beliefs in different Gods/ Cultures.
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity
Dune. We may all need stillsuits soon to cope with global warming! 😂
Interesting framing of the question. Given the focus on significant world improvement, I’d concentrate on books that (1) encourage more empathy, (2) create greater ambition, and (3) influence patching core flaws in our institutional substrates. 1. Siddhartha 2. Think and Grow Rich 3. Atlas Shrugged
Any poetry book - at some point in time, all of poetry clicked for me at once and it’s all so beautiful to read now. It’s more about your experience as the reader than what’s on the page
Open: The Story Of Human Progress https://www.amazon.com/dp/1786497166/&tag=twb003-20
"Food Fix" by Mark Hyman. I actually hated the book (could've been a blog post), but it wins this prompt. If everyone understood it, we'd fix our broken food system tomorrow & everyone would live longer with less disease.
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6642715-the-forty-rules-of-love?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=xIJ02OAm8s&rank=1
My home library is full of books by would highly recommend Silence Of The Heart By Robert Adams https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/83002