The astonishingly popular Canadian psychotherapist and academic Jordan Peterson puts a huge emphasis on the importance of reading if you want to lead a truly fulfilling and succesful life. These are his picks. For 2017 and for 2016.
In 2017
Literature/Philosophy
Clinical Psychology and Personality
Neuroscience
Religion and Religious History
General
In 2016
Clinical Psychology and Personality
General
- Derek J. de Solla Price: Little Science, Big Science
- Hans Eysenck: Genius
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
- John Gall: Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
- Theodore Dalrymple: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Religion and Religious History
My Books
Neuroscience
- Jeffrey Gray and Neil McNaughton: The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
- Jaak Panksepp: Affective Neuroscience
- Joseph LeDoux: The Emotional Brain
- Larry Swanson: Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan
- JJ Gibson: An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
- Elkhonon Goldberg: The New Executive Brain
Literature/Philosophy
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Devils
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot
- Nikos Kazantzakis: The Fratricides
- Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek
- Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
- Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle
- Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward
- Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist
- Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science
- Northrop Frye: The Great Code
- Northrop Frye: Words with Power
- Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Have read a few of these many years ago. Quite an extensive list!
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Which ones did you read? Am curious! Don’t forget to share posts with your network, it really helps us
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I’ll get back to you with that.
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