Culture shock and Travel

Culture Smart - Essential guide to customs and culture

(communication)
- double filtering (from marketing)


[good!]  
- The Culture Map
https://www.amazon.nl/Culture-Map-Decoding-People-Cultures/dp/1610392760/ref=asc_df_1610392760/?tag=nlshogostdsp-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=430554641661&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15992394398964909449&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1010752&hvtargid=pla-525261842565&psc=1 

Providing and Receiving feedback - the BEST framework

Effective Feedback: Giving and Receiving with the BEST Method

Feedforward (future, improvements/actions) rather than feedback

Feedback vs. Feedforward — Here’s Why I Don’t Like Either Word to Describe Radical Candor | by Kim Scott | Medium

Books about Writing (and Reading)

Digital Zettelkasten: Principles, Methods

- more about reading than writing?

a swim in a pond in the rain
(analyses 4 classic short story authors)

New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction

K - Rilke's Orpheus:
https://www.amazon.com/Orpheus-Don-Paterson/dp/0571222706

On Writing Well - William Zinsser

The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White)

Politics (mostly conservative...)

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Reading Lolita in Tehran

 
Heather Mac Donald

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sorrell

Quilette (journal)

Our Own Worst Enemies: America and the Age of Violent Populism

Book by Robert Pape

The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations

 by John Perazzo

(from Sowell)

Psychology (+Buddhism) (+Judaism)

 K for man in relationship - The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NA993PI?pd_rd_i=B01NA993PI&pd_rd_w=iHPdT&pf_rd_p=7dc2af26-48e5-433c-a734-bb19a095ac9b&pd_rd_r=817d1fc7-5a3d-4de8-a10c-0f386c70c7ba&pd_rd_wg=uPmu3&ref_=pe_26987910_574471440_ssub&pldnSite=1

K awful cynical ...- 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

xx Toward a Meaningful Life - kindle - Judaism... - simon jacobson

xx on death and dying - assoc with The Denial of Death

xx Civilisation and its Discontents - Freud

xx The Doctor and the Soul
Book by Viktor Frankl

[have it - audible]the magic mountain - Thomas mann - TB patients

xx Why We Sleep (audible)

k but for husbands ... [kindle] - How to Be an Adult in Relationships, by David Richo

xx - Comfortable With Uncertainty, by the Buddhist nun Pema Chodron,

xx - Zen in English Literature - RH Blyth

xx - assertiveness workbook

xx - The Diamond in Your Pocket
Book by Gangaji

done - auto bio of nun - worked with Thich Nhat Hanh
http://www.parallax.org/product/learning-true-love-practicing-buddhism-in-a-time-of-war/
 
xx - Tribe - on Homecoming and Belonging - Junger (addiction, alienation...)

self help books - https://www.bookdepository.com/how-to-live-more-work-less?utm_source=NL-Button&utm_medium=email-Newsletter&utm_term=button&utm_content=MAIN&utm_campaign=20220615_BUS_LIVE_BST

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xx Douglas Murray
https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988
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Mark Manson:

k not bad - iphone kindle - The True Believer (well written to the point phil)
k not bad bit heavy - kindle - The Denial of Death
- Civilisation and its discontents (Freud)
- The Singularity is Near
- Antifragile (60% bullshit, but has some core ideas)


- Predictably Irrational (how our reason is easily manipulated)
- Influence - Cialdini - manipulated by marketing
xx - [have on audible.com!] Stumbling on Happiness (emotion and poor memory of emotions)
Dan Gilbert

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Buddhism

xx Cutting through spiritual materialism
- Trungpa

xx - A Seeker's Guide to the Yoga Sutras: Modern Reflections on the Ancient Journey
by Ram Bhakt

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# Thich Nhat Hanh books

The Art of Communicating
(loneliness!) [healing close relationships]
https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/key-books/#block_5d456047f8d5f-4
The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh
(his last book)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1111671/the-art-of-living/9781846045097.html

Reconciliation
- Healing the Inner Child
[healing close relationships]
https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/key-books/#block_5d42ec21e1ebd-4
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done:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Buddha-Archie-J-Bahm/dp/0875730256/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533495399&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX118_SY170&keywords=philosophy+of+buddha+bahm&dpPl=1&dpID=31F896RZR9L&ref=plSrch

[got it - kindle/audible] - Zen Art of Archery
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Art-Archery-Training-Become/dp/0140190740/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533495914&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=zen+and+the+art+of+archery&dpPl=1&dpID=41Nguz2ff9L&ref=plSrch

Miyamoto Musashi
- Samurai
2 books:
+ The Book of 5 Rings (martial arts)
+ Dokkodo (The Path of Aloneness)) - phil

xx - Christianity - from George Bruno - https://www.amazon.com/Poustinia-Christian-Spirituality-East-Western/dp/B000IOYYR8

done - Brave New World - Huxley

done - Thinking, Fast and Slow

- Over the Edge of the World (Bergreen)

EI book
https://www.amazon.com/Grow-Up-Masculine-Emotional-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B00GWANDK6 (https://www.amazon.com/Grow-Up-Masculine-Emotional-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B00GWANDK6)

done - gulag book - abridged
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gulag-Archipelago-Abridged-Vintage-Classics/dp/1784871516/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541362522&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=gulag+archipelago+abridged&dpPl=1&dpID=51niMh0zmML&ref=plSrch

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-gulag-archipelago/1001004001958220/?suggestionType=suggestedsearch

** Jung (difficult?)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Search-Soul-Routledge-Classics/dp/041525390X

dantes inferno - (have Divine Comedy already)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inferno-Dante/dp/0385496982/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1513654376&sr=1-7&keywords=dante+inferno


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www.Ted.com (http://www.Ted.com)

https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Ted.com&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNFON9w34QkxhpKY3L7_6b6LzDLHqg (http://www.Ted.com)

[done]
The Wise Heart, by Jack Kornfield

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starting over:
[medium afro guy] https://www.amazon.com/You-2-0-Reinvent-Yourself-Transformation/dp/1544282435/

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Russel Brand books:
  Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
  - David R Hawkins

[shitty reviews - blather] The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
  - Michael Singer

  Encounter With the Self: A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job
  - Edward F Edinger

Art Books (fine arts, history...)

 

Art Books (fine arts, history...)

- gothic

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gothic-Revival-Art-Ideas/dp/0714834807

- romanticism

https://www.amazon.com/Romanticism-Ideas-Blayney-August-Paperback/dp/B015QJZSN8/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=Romanticism+David+brown&qid=1570775580&s=books&sr=1-1

- general:

https://de.phaidon.com/store/art/the-story-of-art-9780714833552/ https://de.phaidon.com/store/art/art-in-time-9780714867373/

Thomas Sowell - economist and conservative commentator, USA

Thomas Sowell - economist and conservative commentator, USA

https://www.tsowell.com/

https://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html

https://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm

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Sowell reading list - https://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm
- Basic Economics - Sowell

... - (kindle has) Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies by Gregory Jackson

- Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
- What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis

Economics

- James Q Wilson - books on crime

- Peter Bower - on third world. Equality, the third world and economic delusion 

- Underdevelopment is a state of mind- Laurence Harrison

Sowell: a conflict of visions (sowells own fave), 

basic economics, (most readable)

black rednecks and white liberals.

vision of the anointed

knowledge and decisions 

other authors:

edward bellamy - Looking Backward

The Road to Serfdom

by Friedrich Hayek

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iceland books

[done] Njalls Saga
[have] Egils Saga
[xxx] Brjans Saga (Briain Boru!)

Pirates: "Terror & Consent" by Phillip Bobbitt