A Guide to the Good Life

A Guide to the Good Life

By
William B. Irvine
William B. Irvine
2008 • 328 pages

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26 books

Philosophy

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Mind-Body Philosophy
The Great Ideas of Philosophy
Seneca despre timp
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
A Guide to the Good Life

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Via Sivers

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Open Borders
The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Playful parenting
The Gardener and the Carpenter
A Guide to the Good Life

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39 books

To Read 2020

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Skin in the Game
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Mathematics Its Content, Methods and Meaning

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Owned

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The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Right It
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The Startup Way
Zone to Win

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Self Development

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The Sketchnote Workbook
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Together is Better
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

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Culture

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Caste
Fermat's last theorem
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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History

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Caste
Fermat's last theorem
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
The Future of Humanity

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Leadership Mgmt

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Igor
Together is Better
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
The Leader's Guide

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Management

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Edge: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
Gamestorming
The Leader's Guide
A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

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Non Fiction

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
How to Enjoy your life and your job
The Magic of Thinking Big
The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression!

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Own Physical Copy

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On the Shortness of Life
The Snowman
The Leopard
Mr. Mercedes
Meditations
Clockers
The Da Vinci Code

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9 books

Stoicism

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A New Stoicism
How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living
A Guide to the Good Life
The Practicing Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

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28 books

Philosophy

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Physics As Metaphor
The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
Symposion
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
The Castle in the Pyrenees
The Story of Philosophy

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26 books

Self Help

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A Guide to the Good Life
Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
Deep Work
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

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Nonfiction

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Principles of Project Management
Man's Search for Meaning
Symposion
Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

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Audiobooks

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The Collapsing Empire
The Ride of a Lifetime
Turn the Ship Around!
The Harry Potter Trilogy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Lightning Thief
The Now Habit

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Philosophy

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Letters from a Stoic
The Last Lecture
On Love
Meditations
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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To Read Nonfic

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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
When Women Ruled the World
Cosmos
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Philosophy Ethics

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The Plague
The Fall
Being and Nothingness
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Being and Time
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

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Self Improvement

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A Gentle Reminder
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute―Before the Last Minute
Nudge: The Final Edition
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Get It Done
The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

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My Library

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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124 books

Non Fiction

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Outliers: The Story of Success
Losing My Virginity: 1950-1993
The Last Lecture
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

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Philosophy

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A Guide to the Good Life
The Denial of Death
The Birth of Tragedy
Irrational Man : A Study in Existential Philosophy
Think : a compelling introduction to philosophy
The Story of Philosophy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Finished

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
And Then There Were None
48 Days to the Work You Love
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities
Square Foot Gardening

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83 books

To Review

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The Anubis Gates
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Mimics of Dephene
The Genetic Buccaneer
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