My Favourite Books of 2015 (and Their Lessons)

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Here are the books that had the biggest influence on my life this year. I highly encourage everyone to check them out (or read my synopses to save time).

 Sex at Dawn (read review)

Sexual monogamy is unnatural for humans.

2. Never Eat Alone

You are as powerful as the people you know and trust.

3. Antifragile by Nasim Nicolas Taleb (read review)

Adversity in life is beneficial for growth.

4. How to Fail at Everything Still Win Big by Scott Adams

Don’t set fixed goals, invest in a personal system of improvement.

5. Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek (read review)

True leaders work the hardest, are the first to die in battle, and push responsibility down the chain.

6. She Comes First (read review)

Sexual arousal for men is like a light switch, for women it’s like a dimmer switch.

7. The Great Courses: The Secret World of Words

English is (and will remain) the dominant world language due to its amazing versatility and adaptability.

8. The Richest Man In Babylon (read review)

Saving 10% of all your earnings will attract exponential wealth.

9. Power vs. Force (read review)

There are many universal truths that are much more powerful than brute force.

10. This is Your Brain On Music

Music tickles the brain and helps it develop a better structural understanding of the world.

 

 

Honourable Mentions:

  1. Social: Why We’re Wired to Connect (read review)
  2. Walden by Thoreau
  3. Inuit Parenting
  4. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (read review)
  5. No Excuses! by Brian Tracy
  6. The 1 Minute Manager
  7. Steal Like an Artist
  8. The Little Prince
  9. The Personal MBA
  10. Education of Millionaires (read review)

Other good books I recommend:

  1. Money Master the Game
  2. The Sociopath Next Door
  3. Getting to Yes
  4. The Selfish Gene
  5. Jesus CEO
  6. Martinus’ Erindringer (Danish)
  7. Røde Orm (Danish)
  8. Elon Musk’s biography
  9. Make Her Squirt
  10. Busy
  11. Radical Acceptance
  12. Pass Through Panic
  13. The Dip
  14. The 6 Pillars of Self Esteem
  15. The 100-year-old Man Who Jumped Out the Window and Dissapeared
  16. The Alchemist
  17. Flow
  18. The Paradox of Choice
  19. Future Crimes
  20. Man’s Search for Meaning
  21. Bold
  22. The Obstacle is the Way
  23. Zero to One