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These 5 Books Will Teach You More Than Any Degree Or Course Ever Could
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lessons in 5 measly books
Tom Addison, 06/14/25
The right book, when read at the right time, can turn your entire life upside down.
The right book can teach you lessons that’ll not only last a lifetime, but will teach you lessons that are impossible to teach in a classroom.
Here are 5 Books that will teach you more than any degree or course ever could…
Factfulness by Hans Rosling (請參見此欄)
If you’re anything like me, the chances are you’ve probably been led to believe a whole host of false misconceptions about the world.
That was, until I recently read Factfulness by Swedish physician Hans Rosling.
Rosling challenges the common misconceptions we have about the world, such as health, poverty, and education — things many of us have been led to believe are getting worse.
However, the world is improving at a phenomenally positive rate.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve read a book that’s opened my eyes much as Factfulness did in an awful long time.
This book should be required reading for all students.
Here’s a short snippet from Factfulness…
“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
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Influence by Robert Cialdini (請參見此欄)
Influence is considered a classic in the fields of psychology, behavioral science, and, more specifically, the study of persuasion.
In Influence, Robert Cialdini introduces seven different key principles of persuasion, which include:
* Reciprocity
* Commitment
* Social proof
* Authority
* Liking
* Scarcity.
And,
* Unity
Only after reading Influence do you realise how blind you were to the tricks of the marketing world of persuasion.
These books left a big impression on me, and I’m pretty sure they will on you too!
Here’s a short snippet from Influence…
“Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.”
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The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money is written by former finance columnist Morgan Housel.
Housel explains how money, despite what you’ve been led to believe, is more a game of behaviour and temperament than knowledge.
I don’t know how he does it, but Housel has this godly ability to turn a potentially bland subject like finance into something you literally can’t stop reading.
This book changed and revolutionised my whole outlook on finance, more specifically my approach to investing.
If I could gift you just one book on finance, it would be an easy decision.
That book would obviously be The Psychology of Money!
Here’s a short snippet from The Psychology of Money…
“Not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.”
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (請參見此欄、此欄、和此欄)
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and author of the incredible modern-day classic, Sapiens.
In Sapiens, Harari deciphers, explains, and explores some of the key events throughout history that have shaped modern society.
History can be a dry and dull subject.
Sapiens, on the other hand, though, isn’t at all.
It’s downright phenomenal and a pleasure to read, and incredibly easy to understand, making you want to carry on reading more and more.
Here’s a short snippet from Sapiens…
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (請參見此欄和此欄2025/06/29貼文)
In Meditations, we take a glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential and powerful people ever to grace the planet, Marcus Aurelius.
The thing is, that was never meant to be Marcus’s intention.
Why?
Basically, Meditations is a personal collection of Marcus’s raw thoughts on life and Stoic philosophy for his own benefit.
Even though Meditations was written 2000 years ago, you can’t help but think that things really aren’t that different, and everyone still suffers from the same problems they did back then, even if they were a Roman Emperor!
If you want to know how to live and become a better person, then I’m sorry, you just have to read Meditations.
Meditations is the most influential book I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading in my life (so far).
You never know, after you’ve finished reading it, you might feel the same way.
Here is a short snippet from Meditations…
“You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow.”
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Thank you for reading this article and spending your most precious asset on me — your time.
I appreciate it, and I hope to see you again soon!
Written by Tom Addison
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一般來說，「聽書」比較容易做到；「看書」比較容易掌握和了解內容。我非常落伍，目前仍然相當排斥「聽書」和「看視頻」；現在雖然不能「讀」長篇大論的書，3,000字以內的論文對我來說，還是小菜一碟。
Reading vs. Listening: The Best Way to Learn, According to Neuroscience
Can’t we just get everything through podcasts and audiobooks?
Stephanie N. Del Tufo, The Conversation U.S., 08/1/25
Reading and listening are two different brain functions. Do we need to do both?
Let’s start with a thought experiment: Close your eyes and imagine what the future might look like in a few hundred years.
Are people intergalactic travelers zooming between galaxies? Maybe we live on spaceships, underwater worlds or planets with purple skies.
Now, picture your bedroom as a teenager of the future. There’s probably a glowing screen on the wall. And when you look out the window, maybe you see Saturn’s rings, Neptune’s blue glow or the wonders of the ocean floor.
Now ask yourself: Is there a book in the room?
Open your eyes. Chances are, there’s a book nearby. Maybe it’s on your nightstand or shoved under your bed. Some people have only one; others have many.
You’ll still find books today, even in a world filled with podcasts. Why is that? If we can listen to almost anything, why does reading still matter?
As a language scientist, I study how biological factors and social experiences shape language. My work explores how the brain processes spoken and written language, using tools like MRI and EEG.
Whether reading a book or listening to a recording, the goal is the same: understanding. But these activities aren’t exactly alike. Each supports comprehension in different ways. Listening doesn’t provide all the benefits of reading, and reading doesn’t offer everything listening does. Both are important, but they are not interchangeable.
My colleagues and I use brain scans like this MRI to study what the brain is doing when a person reads. Rajaaisya/Science Photo Library via Getty Images 請至原網頁觀看大腦掃描影像
Different brain processes
Your brain uses some of the same language and cognitive systems for both reading and listening, but it also performs different functions depending on how you’re taking in the information.
When you read, your brain is working hard behind the scenes. It recognizes the shapes of letters, matches them to speech sounds, connects those sounds to meaning, then links those meanings across words, sentences and even whole books. The text uses visual structure such as punctuation marks, paragraph breaks or bolded words to guide understanding. You can go at your own speed.
Listening, on the other hand, requires your brain to work at the pace of the speaker. Because spoken language is fleeting, listeners must rely on cognitive processes, including memory to hold onto what they just heard.
Speech is also a continuous stream, not neatly separated words. When someone speaks, the sounds blend together in a process called coarticulation. This requires the listener’s brain to quickly identify word boundaries and connect sounds to meanings. Beyond identifying the words themselves, the listener’s brain must also pay attention to tone, speaker identity and context to understand the speaker’s meaning.
‘Easier’ is relative — and contextual
Many people assume that listening is easier than reading, but this is not usually the case. Research shows that listening can be harder than reading, especially when the material is complex or unfamiliar.
Listening and reading comprehension are more similar for simple narratives, like fictional stories, than for nonfiction books or essays that explain facts, ideas or how things work. My research shows that genre affects how you read. In fact, different kinds of texts rely on specialized brain networks. Fictional stories engage regions of the brain involved in social understanding and storytelling. Nonfiction texts, on the other hand, rely on a brain network that helps with strategic thinking and goal-directed attention.
Reading difficult material tends to be easier than listening from a practical standpoint, as well. Reading lets you move around within the text easily, rereading particular sections if you’re struggling to understand, or underlining important points to revisit later. A listener who is having trouble following a particular point must pause and rewind, which is less precise than scanning a page and can interrupt the flow of listening, impeding understanding.
Even so, for some people, like those with developmental dyslexia, listening may be easier. Individuals with developmental dyslexia often struggle to apply their knowledge of written language to correctly pronounce written words, a process known as decoding. Listening allows the brain to extract meaning without the difficult process of decoding.
Engaging with the material
One last thing to consider is engagement. In this context, engagement refers to being mentally present, actively focusing, processing information and connecting ideas to what you already know.
People often listen while doing other things, like exercising, cooking or browsing the internet — activities that would be hard to do while reading. When researchers asked college students to either read or listen to a podcast on their own time, students who read the material performed significantly better on a quiz than those who listened. Many of the students who listened reported multitasking, such as clicking around on their computers while the podcast played. This is particularly important, as paying attention appears to be more important for listening comprehension than reading comprehension.
So, yes, reading still matters, even when listening is an option. Each activity offers something different, and they are not interchangeable.
The best way to learn is not by treating books and audio recordings as the same, but by knowing how each works and using both to better understand the world.
Stephanie N. Del Tufo is Assistant Professor of Education & Human Development at theUniversity of Delaware. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spencer Foundation, the University of Delaware, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the ASHA Foundation, and several professional organizations including American Educational Research Association (AERA), Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the International Literacy Association (ILA).
This article is from The Conversation’s Curious Kids story, with a question submitted by Sebastian L., age 15, Skanderborg, Denmark. If you have a curious child in your life, help them to send their question to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Please tell us your name, age and the city where you live.
And since curiosity has no age limit — adults, let us know what you’re wondering, too. We won’t be able to answer every question, but we will do our best.
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這篇文章談不上「書評」，內容重點在於：介紹此書影響和兩位作者著書立言的「風格」。因此，該文只能說是「讀後感」或「好書推薦」(請見本欄上一篇)。
20世紀後期法國思想想家中，我對傅柯、德希達、和李歐塔三位的思想比較熟悉；拿康、巴爾斯、和勒文拿斯三位則只讀過介紹他們思想的文章和一、兩篇文選；在書本、網誌、論文上看過大名但沒有接觸過其著作，也沒有讀過介紹其思想文章者，則有：德盧茲、瓜塔瑞、波娃爾、瑞克爾、阿爾圖瑟爾、克莉絲提娃等多位。我連大名都沒聽過的同時期法國哲學家，當然一定還大有人在。
我記得曾在誠品書店讀德盧茲和瓜塔瑞兩位某本大作(英譯)；對我來說，它有如天書，讀了六、七頁還是如墬五里雲中，莫名其土地堂。這大概是我之後沒有再去試著了解他們論述的原因。另一個可能原因是：在我30-40年前讀過的英文著作/論文中，他們兩位不像上面提到的前六位那樣相當經常的被引用。所以也沒有引起我非得了解的興趣。當初讀該文是希望能對這兩位的思想略有所知。可惜並無所獲。
我在這本書中讀到：黑格爾認為，一個論述只需要能夠維持「內部一致性」就可視為「成一家之言」；或我常常講的：一個論述至少要符合「自圓其說」的標準。從而，作者或讀者可以從(該論述)任何地方切入。或許這是德盧茲和瓜塔瑞兩位著作風格的靈感來源。
我上網查了一下；此書有紀金慶先生介紹的連結，他的「臉書」專頁上也有介紹。只是我不上社交平台，無法拜讀。附帶說一句；將中文書名翻譯為《千高原》應該算望文生義或相當生硬。我沒有讀此書，無從提出任何建議；這只是我的直覺或第六感。
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One of the Most Influential Books You’ve (likely) Never Read
A personal journey through one of the most radical, structureless, and strangely prophetic books ever written.
Vincent Halles, 07/21/25
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A Thousand Plateaus (ATP), by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari is a paradox. It isn’t read, or rarely, yet it’s all over the place. It’s hard to find people who have read the book in its entirety, if at all. At the same time, the book’s fingerprints are scattered throughout art, philosophy, politics, pop culture and even more. It’s the book that’s connecting The Matrix, Radiohead, Alain Damasio, The House of Leaves, Mr Robot, Westworld, Marxism, Queer culture and French Theory in a 600 pages mess.
The way I found this book is very fitting. It was by scrolling on book forums late at night. That’s the origin story of most of my reads. This one though, is perfect for this particular method. ATP isn’t any book, even in French Theory standards. It’s notoriously hard to read and follows a deconstructed structure called rhizome.
First cover edition. By Scan of book cover, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44334591 請至原網頁查看書本封面
The rhizome is the book’s DNA. It’s its main interest, and the reason why its influence is broader than its contents. It’s the main idea to grasp, and, paradoxically, the one from which stems every idea that it contains.
About the Rhizome
Since I’ve started to read it, almost six months ago, I started a trail of notes, thoughts and diary-like entries very regularly. I resisted the urge to write about it on medium for weeks now. I was afraid to start from the wrong angle, a false premise, a flawed vision. If only I had grasped what the book was trying to say sooner, my fear would have died a few weeks back at least.
For the book can be read in any order and isn’t meant to have a single entry point. There is no beginning and no end. Shall you decide to start from the final chapter is up to you and will make an equally interesting and valid experience as starting from the first. There is no core idea nor theory. It’s about movement.
A book with a rhizomic pattern. By http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=12006632808, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1187622 請至原網頁查看書本封面
The rhizome, which is the concept on which the book is based, is a model of thought that is non-hierarchical, decentralized, and multiplicitous. Unlike a tree, which has a root, a trunk, branches, and a structure of authority, a rhizome has no center, no beginning, no end. You can enter it anywhere, and it connects everything to everything.
Classically, thoughts and concepts are presented with the tree metaphor. It’s often about a concept from which things stem. In A Thousand Plateaus, there is no tree. The rhizome is more like a network, mycelium, grass, diasporas or neurodivergent thoughts. With this concept, the book rejects hierarchies, linear logic, and fixed identities.
The very concept of a network is a refusal of simplicity, essentialism and rigid structures.
Leaking Everywhere
I’ve seen the book everywhere. I sensed its influence in a lot of works. It made things political where I thought there wasn’t any. It shattered my last illusions of simplicity. Most of all, it trained me to accept that life is movement.
The rhizome a concept that leaks. It’s not meant to be seen as a system, but as a way to shatter rigid structures. In a way, it was about queer identity, ZADs, the web, memes and cyberpunk. It was about every way the state and rigid structures are undermined by the chaos of the living.
There’s ambiguity with a book that is presented as a such. It’s easy to link thoughts and artworks that follow the methodology to this seminal book. At the same time, it’s almost too easy.
We can never be sure of the exact amount of works that derive from it. That’s why I think I’m seeing ghosts. Thankfully, we have evidence of artists, writers, political figures who directly referenced it. We may never know how deep the roots are. Maybe it’s up to me to decide.
Yet Never Read
I soon wondered why I had to dive so deep to have this book recommended. This question was answered pretty soon. The rhizome makes the read quite difficult. It jumps from subject to subject, each treated with care and sometimes poetic madness.
The book is essentially unquotable, in the sense that isolating a quote out of context is pretty much useless. It’s not like the book has any ambition to be fully understood. The more one reads it, the more one understands that the anti-structure is what the book is about. It’s right there when the book talks about nomads. Or faces. Or bodies without organs.
The book is hard to even recommend because it’s not like you can easily place it in a mundane conversation. It’s the type of recommendation that requires context. Even some sort of explanation, if not a lecture. All of this is at the risk of passing for a snob, or a poser.
French Theory is not the type of subject you drop by the coffee machine. It’s not the thing you talk about when having a political conversation. It’s a little too old to be in the progressive movement’s speeches and references. The footprints are everywhere, but the copies are gathering dust.
A Recommendation
I’m used to write about books. Yet I rarely recommend any. It’s not that I don’t think they deserve a recommendation, but because I don’t see my articles as reviews. I see them as personal essays, as a description of my relationship with the book.
This one is different. I think there is a philosophical benefit to reading, or attempting to read ATP. I don’t know what it will be exactly. Maybe you’ll see someone who speaks your language. Maybe you’ll find an interesting concept that will keep you up at night. Maybe you’ll see a precursor to progressive political ideas and concept.
To me, this book is a reminder that simplicity is a trap. It reminds me to let go, and embrace the chaos of living and thinking. It invites my pen to move more freely, and my mind to wander without structure.
I strongly recommend you take a step into this chaos. I’m almost certain that you’ll find something lying in the rhizome. One doesn’t get out of this kind of radicality empty handed.
I’ll write about it again, that’s for sure.
Do you enjoy my writing? If so, you’re welcome to visit my personal space on the internet, where I get a little more personal.
Written by Vincent Halles
Jurist by trade, writer by nature. Overthinking out loud and shaping reading notes into stories. Read with me → vincenthalles.com (currently reading, digests)
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20世紀最重要的10本書 ----- Krishna
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下文謹供參考；不同的人會有不同的書單。如果是我，我會推薦Albert Camus的《沉淪》(1956)，而不是他的《異鄉人》(1942)；雖然後者得了諾貝爾文學獎(1957)。
以下對這10本書就我自己做個小小分類(依原文順序)：
1) 熟悉作者和讀過該書
James Joyce：Ulysses (只讀了不到50頁)；Albert Camus：The Stranger
2) 知道作者大名和作品但沒讀過該書
George Orwell：1984；Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn：The Gulag Archipelago
3) 知道作者大名但沒聽過，沒讀過該書
Frantz Fanon，Virginia Woolf，Simone de Beauvoir
4) 作者大名和作品都沒聽過(自然也沒讀過該書)
Gabriel García Márquez，Toni Morrison，Elie Wiesel
The 10 most important books of the 20th Century
How many have you read?
Krishna, 06/03/25
I don’t remember the first book I ever read. But I do remember the first one that changed me. It wasn’t a self-help manual or a spiritual guide — it was George Orwell’s 1984. I was 17, sitting in a noisy Delhi metro, but in my mind, I was trapped in Airstrip One, terrified of Big Brother, and suddenly suspicious of every ad I saw on a billboard.
That’s what great books do. They don’t just inform us — they rearrange us. They hold a mirror to our society, our fears, and sometimes, our hope. The 20th century was turbulent — two World Wars, colonial collapse, civil rights struggles, revolutions, and the rise of machines. And through it all, writers tried to make sense of the madness.
Here are 10 books that I think defined the last century.
1. George Orwell — 1984 (1949)
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
I still get chills reading those words. Orwell didn’t just write a novel — he predicted a future that feels more real every day. In a world of surveillance capitalism, fake news, and algorithmic control, 1984 has become eerily prophetic. It’s not a story. It’s a warning.
2. James Joyce — Ulysses (1922)
The book that scared a million readers and inspired a million writers.
Let’s be honest: Ulysses is dense. It doesn’t care if you get it on the first try. But buried in its chaos is an ordinary day in Dublin turned into a spiritual odyssey. Joyce reinvented what a novel could be. After him, language itself felt different — more playful, more alive.
3. Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Read this if you want to understand the rage beneath the struggle.
Fanon was a psychiatrist from Martinique who worked in Algeria during its fight for independence. His words are raw, radical, and still unsettlingly relevant. He didn’t just dissect colonialism — he exposed the psychological scars it left behind. Liberation, for Fanon, was both political and personal.
4. Virginia Woolf — To the Lighthouse (1927)
A book that feels like a memory you never lived.
Woolf didn’t write for plot. She wrote for feeling. Her novels drift like dreams, especially To the Lighthouse, where grief, time, and silence become characters of their own. As a woman writing against the tide of patriarchy, she carved out space for interior lives — especially women’s lives — to matter.
5. Gabriel García Márquez — One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Where magic feels more honest than facts.
When I first read about the town of Macondo, I didn’t just read a story — I stepped into a living myth. Márquez made magic realism a global literary movement. Through the fantastical, he told the truth about politics, love, family, and the violence of history in Latin America.
6. Albert Camus — The Stranger (1942)
A man doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral — and the world falls apart.
Camus gave a voice to a new kind of man: emotionally detached, morally ambiguous, and disturbingly relatable. In The Stranger, existence itself becomes a question. Why are we here? What does it mean to be good? The answers are less comforting than we’d like — but maybe that’s the point.
7. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
This book cost him his country.
Solzhenitsyn documented the brutality of Stalin’s labor camps with such meticulous detail that the Soviet Union exiled him. But his sacrifice changed history. The Gulag Archipelago didn’t just expose a regime — it reminded the world that silence is complicity, and truth can shake empires.
8. Toni Morrison — Beloved (1987)
Some books don’t entertain you — they haunt you.
Beloved is about a mother who would rather kill her child than see her return to slavery. That sentence alone is unbearable — and yet Morrison bears it with unmatched beauty and sorrow. She didn’t write about Black history as a scholar. She wrote from its wound.
9. Simone de Beauvoir — The Second Sex (1949)
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
This book cracked open the myth of femininity. De Beauvoir used philosophy to question everything — from biology to patriarchy. It inspired generations of feminists to challenge the systems that define and confine us. She didn’t just write about gender. She rewrote it.
10. Elie Wiesel — Night (1956)
A teenager survives Auschwitz — and tells the world.
Wiesel’s memoir is short, almost too short for the weight it carries. But in its economy lies its power. He doesn’t embellish. He doesn’t dramatize. He simply remembers. And by doing so, he demands that we never forget. Not the horror. Not the silence. Not the human capacity for both good and evil.
Books That Leave a Mark
These books aren’t beach reads. They won’t make you feel cozy. But they’ll change the way you see power, language, memory, and self.
In a world full of noise, these voices still echo — clear, urgent, timeless.
And maybe, when the world feels too confusing or cruel, we don’t need more answers. We just need better stories. The kind that tells us not just what happened, but who we are becoming.
Written by Krishna
Computer scientist with a deep curiosity for how the world works — past and present. I write about tech, history, and current affairs. Chess player.
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