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Jeanne Callahan's avatar

Thank you for the list. I have identified that at least two of the books are available through my local library and I am excited to learn how to accelerate my learning!

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Axel Casas, PhD Student's avatar

Yay! They will definitely boost your learning skills. Make It Stick, Uncommon Sense Teaching, and Procrastination are pure science-based books.

Ultra-learning and Building a Second Brain are books by non-scientists, but they help to think about studying differently. They helped me a lot with my healthy productivity and becoming a PhD student :)

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I Am's avatar

There are 6 books in the picture

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Hussein Hopper's avatar

Yep, clearly a cretin who can’t even count to six. Also, if an idiot reads a book he remains an idiot, if this were not the case idiots would have ceased to exist by now. This guy is proof that they still exist.

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Peter T Hooper's avatar

What a disappointing list. I was imagining the author of this ‘stack selecting his best five out of the hundreds of key books published through the ages, but instead we got… this.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi's avatar

There's no metric to verify this. It is click bait.

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Kev's avatar

People don't need to become smarter.

They need to open their hearts.

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Boyd's avatar

Hi, ever plant a tree?

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richardstevenhack's avatar

I already had three of those - thanks for the rest.

Also, in terms of the "Second Brain", check out the Obsidian app. With its hundreds of plug-ins, it's incredibly powerful at doing just that. You can even set up AI integration in it.

https://obsidian.md/

Also, if you don't mind being unethical, all those books are available for free from Anna's Archive: https://annas-archive.org/

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Glory Star's avatar

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe"

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

Thank you for the recommendations!

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