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absynce

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Hi, I'm Jared M. Smith. Propping open the doors of my mind since 1984.

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” - Murakami

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Thích Nhất Hạnh: The Art of Power (2008, HarperOne)
Eric Normand: Grokking Simplicity (Paperback, 2021, Manning Publications)
S. C. Gwynne, Nicholas Boulton: His Majesty's Airship (AudiobookFormat, 2023, Simon & Schuster Audio)

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Nicole Krauss: Man walks into a room (2003, Anchor Books)
Seamus Heaney: Beowulf (2002)
Matt Parker: Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More (Paperback, 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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Gregory Hays, Marcus Aurelius: Meditations (Paperback, 2003, Modern Library)
Michael J. Fox: LUCKY MAN (Paperback, 2003, Hyperion)
Katharine Burdekin: The End of This Day's Business (Hardcover, 1990, Feminist Press)

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finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene

Robert Greene: Mastery (Paperback, 2012, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical …

Mastery has some great stories that reveal how mastery is achievable. Greene argues that there is no “stroke of genius” by uncovering all of the intense study and achievable creativity of folks throughout history. He gives instruction and stepwise guidance where others might laud it as magical or out of reach.