I agree. It’s my favouite book too
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@anon54366427 @Kinma we will be happy if this guys share their comment with us too in this topic
Dear erol “Breaking Vegas”” was fascinated,
but i need some more books like this to change the way of my thinking about gamble? would you?
and please tell me what are the most effictive books you read about succes in life and you life(exept The Strangest Secre you mentioned before),
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Yes sure.Here is another very good one.
“Straight Flush” by Ben Mezrich
Read this book, its another amazing book that will make you think twice about gambling.
“Awaken The Giant Within” Tony Robbins
“The Richest man In Babylon” George Clason
“Think & Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill
“Get Smart” Brian Tracy
With these books, if you follow the advice and do what they all says, you’ll have a lot of success within your future years.
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hay there I have read them(skimmed reading)(also mu list got updated)
but do you think still do we need to bet or use our memory tricks/methods in gambling ? whats your opinion?
and erol Ben Mezrich has absoloutely changed my life thanks agian.
you may need read there two soon i had talked to Ed_cooked and these are his suggestion;
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present
Too Big to Know: by David Weinberge
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Gasinos will always win at the end.
There are some games you would have a chance of winning with a system, but would require a huge bank-roll to back you up.
However, the chances are you would still lose in the long run.
Ben Mezrich is one of my favourite writers. I really like his explanatory style. Great writer. I have a few of his books.
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Difficult question, so I limit myself to some books that I read before 18 years old:
When I was 15, our teacher gave us Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to read. That book changed many things.
An introduction to Philosophy I read when also around 15. The book in itself is not so great, but at that time I learned many things from it.
The German Author Michael Ende, not so well known in the English speaking world (besides his books for children), had a big influence on me. I read 7 or 8 of his books.
A short biography of Leonardo da Vinci that we had at home and I read several times when I was around 12 or 13. Also a biography of Francis of Assisi.
When I was around 6 or 7, our teacher read to us C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books. I found those books delicious, even if when I re-read them later I found them a bit boring.
Tolkien’s works enwiden my perspective of the world, and taught me to look beyond my small narrow world, and perhaps game a certain “epic” way of living.
We had an “Encyclopedia for children” with 20 volumes, published before 1917. I think I read that from beginning to end when I was 10 or 12. Obviously the content had many limitations and it would be useless today, but it “changed” the way I think, because it opened my mind for many things.
My father was a fan of Asimov and had many of his fiction works at home. I read and reread them. Even if later in life I found Asimov’s vision of life and the world quite limited and narrow, I can say I learned many things.
We had many collections of books at home: science, literature, art, history and biographies, philosophy and religion, so I had abundant material. All those also had a big influence on me.
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Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths - as regular human beings when we find ourselves frustrated by the tasks of everyday life we are often dealing with optimization problems. Computer scientist have already employed a number of techniques to solve the problems and optimize them so they efficiently run on a server in an automated fashion. Understand of these general problems helps you set expectations with yourself around your frustrations and the true complexity of the problem.
The Brain That Changes Itself By Norman Doidge M.D. - Neuroplasticity! It does exist: I can change! Need I say more?
The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner - How a culture of fear is created and maintained. It made me employ greater critical thinking when consuming mass media.
Innumeracy: Mathemtical Illiteracy and It’s Consequences by John Allen Paulos - how our culture inability to provide sound mathematical education leaves us vulnerable to manipulation. I developed a better understanding of why I and my fellow man are often ‘tricked’ into making bad decisions.
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - (fiction) dystopian future when we stop reading and/or disregard past knowledge.
The Great Mental Models: Volume 1 General Thinking Concepts by Rhiannon Beaubien & Shane Parrish. Gave me insight into that uphold my cognitive biases as well as models that are employed to solve complex/wicked problems.
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I almost picked that up recently. I figured it would take fewer than 50 hours to read it so I downloaded the Kindle preview instead of the audiobook. There are a few other books in line in front of it though.
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Hay erol if it was effictive for you then,
you know i dont have time to read and search for all book but i wana see which are the most effective works about time managment and How to hard tasks and,im not looking for the best sellers you know bunt need the high recommendation you know.
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl would be my general non-memory based recommendation to people.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and anything by Brandon Sanderson would be picks to fans of the fantasy genre.
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Lol not believing in the evolution theory does not make you less scientific. Thats a wrong assumption.
Agreed, @Rookus.
Science requires no belief, and that’s what’s great about it.
But one still does well to account for why they would believe in things for which there is no evidence.
After all, there’s great scientific evidence that tells us a lot about why some human brains believe things in the absence of evidence.
It’s possibly a memory issue too, something Darrel Wray raises in The God Virus. Primacy effect makes a great deal of sense when you see people hanging on to irrational beliefs.
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The discussion about free will that was mixed in with the posts above was moved here: https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/free-will/66871
Something I read many moons ago which I thought was a great book and generally fits with self improvement was “When I Say NO, I Feel Guilty”, Manuel J Smith. Originally published in 1975.
Basically teaches you some useful tools in how to deal with difficult situations in an assertive, rather than an aggressive way.
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How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil.
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The steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein
Those books are wonderful, it’s kind of hard to talk about the books without giving spoilers but let’s say that science is really important and I’ll give you the sinopsis just in case.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman’s knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse a question, and no steerswoman may answer with anything but the truth.
And if she asks, you must answer. It is the other side of tradition’s contract – and if you refuse the question, or lie, no steerswoman will ever again answer even your most casual question.
And so, the steerswomen — always seeking, always investigating — have gathered more and more knowledge about the world they traveled, and they share that knowledge freely.
Until the day that the steerswoman Rowan begins asking innocent questions about one small, lovely, inexplicable object…
Her discoveries grow stranger and deeper, and more dangerous, until suddenly she finds she must flee or fight for her life. Or worse – lie.
Because one kind of knowledge has always been denied the the steerswomen:
Magic.
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Going to check these out I have heard each of these before. I wish we had an upvote option 
So many good books, anyone keep count of the most recommended?
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one I read near the end last year, “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell.
Sometimes our rapid decisions are better than our well thought out ones… sometimes they aren’t though. It gives some examples of when this is good, when this is bad. Interesting stuff.
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A concise introduction to logic
Textbook by Patrick J. Hurley
Found it very useful for understanding and learning, apart of obvious benefits like having better argumentation skills.
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