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The 1% Reading Path: 20 books in order

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The 1% Reading Path

20 books in the exact order to read them: from understanding your own mind to never letting anyone decide for you again. PDF, free.

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The 4 steps

1See yourself

Kahneman, Ariely, Frankl, Marcus Aurelius and Clear: understand the machine you think with.

2Understand others

Le Bon, Cialdini, Bernays, Greene and Carnegie: the strings that move people.

3Move through the world

Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Gracián, Greene and Voss: power and strategy without being used.

4Withstand what comes

Taleb, Housel, Clason and Emerson: chance, money and character.

Why this order

Most people read books about power before understanding their own biases, and end up using the ideas backwards. The path starts on the inside (how you think), moves to other people, then to power and strategy, and ends with what protects you from chance and from money. Each step prepares you for the next.