Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Actual titles: Leadership and Self-Deception and Crucial Conversations.

Crucial Conversations

Professionally by adding to soft skills - Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Personally - by helping me appreciated science better - Cosmos: Carl Sagan As a side note - a lot of the startup stuff is learned on the job and by talking to others about their experiences. Doing a side project can be a good way to try out and you will be forced to think about marketing, sales, etc. Shameless plug: http://hackernewsbooks.com/ - is what books the HN community comments on, maybe you find something interesting there

1. Start with why, Simon Sinek - to get my younger self to figure out why I am doing what I am doing 2. Drive, the surprising truth..., Daniel Pink - to understand happiness and motivation 3. Crucial Conversations, to learn how to talk and listen and talk to people without ruining the conversation and the possibilities from it

Here are some nonfiction books that I've enjoyed. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life - Gilovich - a good book on the inability of the human mind to accept things as random. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High - Patterson, et all - fluffy but nice short and solid book for better skills at listening and responding in conversation Full Throttle: The Life & Fast Times of Racing Legend Curtis Turner - Edlestein - Curtis Turner was an influential figure in the development of what became NASCAR. I enjoyed the book for his character and as insight into a pass time that I had not really understood. Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day - Reinhart - His latest book on quality home baking. This is definitely a do along with the book kind of read, but I found it to be easy to follow, appealing to detail, and satisfying in producing delicious bread. Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them - Haigh - If you're of age, this is an interesting background in cocktails and their evolution in America.…