An older relative gave me a book called “The Magic of Thinking Big” by David Schwartz in 2nd year. Really boring cover. But the life lessons in it felt life changing to me at the time and it always stuck with me for that. The core premise, at least that I remember today (10 years later), is that there really is magic in thinking and planning big with your dreams and goals, both in career and in life. Set high bars for yourself, believe in yourself, and go after dream goals in the things that matter to you. Even if you don’t achieve all or even most of your dream goals, the journey will have taken you much further than if you hadn’t believed you could do it.
And “Born to Run” got me into running in college and I really loved that book.
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hmm. my favorite reads in college were:
* liquidated: an ethnography of wall street by karen ho
* making war at fort hood by kenneth macleish
* friction by anna tsing
* this changes everything by naomi klein
* wuthering heights by emily bronte
* beloved by toni morrison
* sweetness and power by sidney mintz
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I barely read any novels during college because I read so many textbooks for class. One of the few novels I did read though, and one that stuck with me a lot, was Watership Down, phenomenal book. One of my favorites.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
An older relative gave me a book called “The Magic of Thinking Big” by David Schwartz in 2nd year. Really boring cover. But the life lessons in it felt life changing to me at the time and it always stuck with me for that. The core premise, at least that I remember today (10 years later), is that there really is magic in thinking and planning big with your dreams and goals, both in career and in life. Set high bars for yourself, believe in yourself, and go after dream goals in the things that matter to you. Even if you don’t achieve all or even most of your dream goals, the journey will have taken you much further than if you hadn’t believed you could do it.
And “Born to Run” got me into running in college and I really loved that book.
Sula
Dune
hmm. my favorite reads in college were:
* liquidated: an ethnography of wall street by karen ho
* making war at fort hood by kenneth macleish
* friction by anna tsing
* this changes everything by naomi klein
* wuthering heights by emily bronte
* beloved by toni morrison
* sweetness and power by sidney mintz
I barely read any novels during college because I read so many textbooks for class. One of the few novels I did read though, and one that stuck with me a lot, was Watership Down, phenomenal book. One of my favorites.