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.I'll choose Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow (http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebo...).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.Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of ChoiceSteven Pinker - How the Mind WorksNassim Taleb - The Black Swan; and Fooled by RandomnessLeonard Mlodinov - The Drunkard's Walk (quite similar to Fooled by Randomness)Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessNeil Postman / Andrew Postman - Amusing Ourselves to DeathRolf Dobelli - The Art of Thinking Clearly (just started)On my reading list now:Quiet by Susan Cain - mentioned alreadyThe Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven PinkerJared Diamond - Guns, Germs and SteelNeal Stephenson - Snow CrashJared Diamond - The World Until YesterdayAlso, did not quite change my life, but very recommended:Neal Stephenson - Anathem.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.