NO SELF HELP BOOKS PLEASE! Also, I am a designer, so all of those design thinking/embrace your creativity books don’t really speak to me since that’s something I do on the daily…
I just feel like I want to be more knowledgeable generally but I don’t even know where to start. I’d like to be able to discuss a wide range of topics more in depth. Any recommendations?
by apeyousmelly
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Pop science, definitely.
The Universe in a Nutshell would be my suggestion.
Or literally any book by Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Or something like 5 Ideas that Changed the World.
Hello, Dude.
I’ve spent the last 22 years reading nothing but non-fiction trying to improve my general knowledge and level up. My unintentional focus over the years has become philosophy and physics, though there is every sort of category on the list. From anthropology to zoology, I’ve read it all. At roughly 45 books per year I have quite the list to recommend. Start with *The Big Picture* by Sean Carroll and let me know what you think.
Here are a few of my recent 5-star titles in no particular order:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss