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!
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 :)
Thanks for the piece, but as I’ve said numerous times before, books do not make you smarter. I know plenty of people who read books and many of them even our excellent readers and understand what has been written. But they’re not very smart. There are a lot of criteria on how you would measure“smartness.“ Things like, how you respond to people, how you work on actionable items, how you comport yourself, and literally dozens more examples.
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
There are 6 books in the picture
Thanks for the piece, but as I’ve said numerous times before, books do not make you smarter. I know plenty of people who read books and many of them even our excellent readers and understand what has been written. But they’re not very smart. There are a lot of criteria on how you would measure“smartness.“ Things like, how you respond to people, how you work on actionable items, how you comport yourself, and literally dozens more examples.
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.
https://scholarstudy.substack.com/p/the-scholars-approach-to-modern-life?r=28woco
There's no metric to verify this. It is click bait.
People don't need to become smarter.
They need to open their hearts.
People need both.
Hi, ever plant a tree?
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/
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe"
Thank you for the recommendations!