The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

This year, I decided to read more fiction, and I like it.[1] Here are some of the interesting non-fiction books I liked; - Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller - How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson - The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - The TATAS: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation by Girish Kuber 1. https://brajeshwar.com/2024/books/

For the last several years, I've kicked off my annual book list by re-reading Ben Franklin's _Autobiography_. I just love the conversational tone and how wide-ranging it is, and there's a surprising amount of still-practical day-to-day advice in there. Honorable mention to _How to Win Friends and Influence People_ (I agree with other comments that earlier editions are better) and _Getting Things Done_. Thanks for starting this thread! Lots of good recommendations here.

I have 4: -Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography - you can download it for free - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - A bit simplistic but it opens your eye to the fact that talent is a small part of being successful in whatever you want to achieve. - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - You need people to succeed. Making enemies or just treating people indifferently is a bad move. - 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey. People put it down because the advice seems to be common sense but it's only common sense if you know it but not everyone knows it. - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius- this is a lifelong guide. Read it until the pages fall apart and then get another and do the same. All these books can be read multiple times and you'll learn something new so get hard copies if you can.

"The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dorner. Sort of an applied "Heuristics and Biases". "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright. It unlocked the reasons why my impulses and aspirations were at such odds. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin". Very practical advice for how to better oneself. Caveat: Reading them earlier is one thing. Appreciating them is another.

Big impact for me both professionally and personally : The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

My runner up sales books are: Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton The Success System That Never Fails by W. clement stone The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Watch all of Brene Browns TED talks about vulnerability. Sales requires trust and trust is built on connection and connection is built by being vulnerable.

A lot of good suggestions. To try to avoid repeating what others have said too much, here are some from a different perspective. # "JPod" by Douglas Coupland helped me realize that it was corporatism, not me, that was broken. # Benjamin Franklin's autobiography showed me a history that was made of people, a people no different than me and mine, and that success comes from standing up and going your own way. # "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein taught me that, while culture is arbitrary and we should be free to try to make it what we wish, that doesn't make it fake or ignorable. # "Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, re-read as an adult, taught me the importance of formula in consistency and how much a market of fans love predictability. # "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin taught me that the movie can be a lot better than the book and that there is a problem with modern generations making an affectation out of book reading.

Great question, and one that I asked just before going to Mozambique for 10 weeks a few years back. I'd just bought a kindle, which were not available outside the USA back then, and asked a few interesting folks I was chatting to at Foo. Here are my resulting first few kindle purchases: The Match King Heros Die (I bought the rest of them) The city and the city Every patient tells a story Blindsight Born to Run Hot, Flat & Crowded The Autobiography of Ben Franklin The Hunger Games (!) And on it went - asking for recommendations was a fantastic thing to do. I'd asked for fiction as I was going there to work and would be too exhausted at first to do much else. So I do encourage everyone to give some names of books. And yes - do take a good camera, do take binoculars - Leica if you can afford them, and embrace the experience. A few years later I went to Antarctica on a boat for 30 days offline. By then I had hundreds of books on kindle, and several devices to read them. This is basically a solved problem now. I did take Wikipedia in offline state, which was useful.…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680 He wasn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but he was Emperor of Rome. ;) Walden http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205 Most of the big problems in life have already been pondered eons ago.

Some favorites from my bookshelf: Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, Thinking Fast and Slow, Fooled by Randomness / Black Swan, SICP, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind

"The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life" "The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" "The toilet paper entrepreneur" "The lean startup" "Anything you want"

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

The auto-biography of Benjamin Franklin! Incredibly relevant to entrepreneurship. http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/ or http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148

The Bible Autobiography of Ben Franklin Mastering the Winds of Change (solid self-improvement book)