Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?
It's hard to choose a single book, as I've read (or listened to) a number of books this year.<p>I'll choose Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B005MJFA2W" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebo...</a>).<p>The way it changed my life was to make me actually think more about the way my mind operates, the decisions I make and the way these decisions affect my life. As a consequence, there were a few books I read later that were loosely related to this one in the way that they all refer to the way people think.<p>Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice<p>Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works<p>Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan; and Fooled by Randomness<p>Leonard Mlodinov - The Drunkard's Walk (quite similar to Fooled by Randomness)<p>Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success<p>Neil Postman / Andrew Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death<p>Rolf Dobelli - The Art of Thinking Clearly (just started)<p>On my reading list now:<p>Quiet by Susan Cain - mentioned already<p>The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker<p>Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel<p>Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash<p>Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday<p>Also, did not quite change my life, but very recommended:<p>Neal Stephenson - Anathem.<p>You may have to struggle through the beginning, but as soon as I understood the way the world he devised operates, I was thrilled completely.