which is the best book on success

[Ramanujan]

according to you , which is the best book on success

share your reason also

[Ramasta9]

Depends on ones definition of success.

For some success is money,

for some its fame,

for some health,

and for some, inner-peace.

For me, success is finding out who i truly am and being who I truly am as fully as i can be in effortless beingness.

For me Tao Te Ching is the greatest book of all time, nothing comes closer to the Truth in my eyes.

Everything else, is secondary, because if you understand the tao, the rest naturally falls into place.

In other words, once you understand nature, everything else falls into place.

That is the greatest success.

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:01 PM by Ramasta9

[Cred]

23 minutes ago, Ramasta9 said:

For me Tao Te Ching is the greatest book of all time, nothing comes closer to the Truth in my eyes.

Everything else, is secondary, because if you understand the tao, the rest naturally falls into place.

In other words, once you understand nature, everything else falls into place.

That is the greatest success.

🅱️ased

[Butters]

So you assume people on this forum are successful? 

Edited yesterday at 05:14 PM by Butters

[Spiritual Warrior]

Probably Mastery by George Leonard, having the insight that true mastery in a field takes over 10,000 hours of work is all you need to understand what it takes to be successful in anything. 

[Cred]

I think you can always either have understanding or mastery. Never both.

Phrased differently: Mastery and understanding are opposing forces.

Edited yesterday at 05:52 PM by Cred

[Cred]

37 minutes ago, Butters said:

So you assume people on this forum are successful? 

You are discriminating against neurodivergent people and reinforcing capitalist ideology with this statement

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

3 minutes ago, Cred said:

I think you can always either have understanding or mastery. Never both.

Or more precisely: Mastery and understanding are opposing forces.

Makes sense, because in order to have an understanding you need to have an open mind and entertain different perspectives, which is too distracting when you're trying to focus on mastering something. Then again, by mastering X you'll have an understanding for the X; it's just that understanding is going to be very narrow

[manuel bon]

Right now I started studying from Bryan Tracy’s phoenix seminar, it’s an 11h course. I just started it but looks great so far

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, Cred said:

I think you can always either have understanding or mastery. Never both.

Phrased differently: Mastery and understanding are opposing forces.

Way too crude and dichotomous. You can just say mastery and understanding are different and may have trade-offs.

[Lyubov]

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. Really great book and the author is spiritually informed and awake. 

[Cred]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

Way too crude and dichotomous. You can just say mastery and understanding are different and may have trade-offs.

I agree with you. My two replies were connected. My deeper point is, that mastery requires commitment and people with ADHD struggle with that.

However, non-commitment enables exploration which has its own upsides.

So how about this:

Understanding has two poles: Mastery and exploration.

[Joseph Maynor]

If I had to pick two that resonated most for me:

"The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life" by Robert Fritz

I love this one too:

"The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin

Edited 21 hours ago by Joseph Maynor

[Carl-Richard]

36 minutes ago, Cred said:

I agree with you. My two replies were connected. My deeper point is, that mastery requires commitment and people with ADHD struggle with that.

Odablock (streamer), #1 PvPer overall on Oldschool RuneScape, most ADHD person (watch him trying to get somebody to teach him the Cow boss) but also the most refinement-oriented, practice-oriented person. He says he used to record himself and watch back what he did in a fight and correct the mistakes. Skill, mastery, is simply about doing the thing a lot, and doing it right.

I feel like you treat DSM-5 categories like they're some kind of metaphysical thing, but I treat them as identical to descriptions like "lack of commitment". So when I hear "it requires commitment, which people with ADHD struggle with", I'm like "yeah duh".

 

36 minutes ago, Cred said:

So how about this:

Understanding has two poles: Mastery and exploration.

No need to pole it out.

Edited 22 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[LordFall]

48 laws of power

You need power to have success in the world otherwise you will ultimately not be able to be impactful.

[Cred]

@Carl-Richard You make a good point.

Here is my explaination of this paradox how people with ADHD (low symbolic being) sometimes lack commitment and therefore mastery, but on the other hand, they sometimes excel at certain skills.

Based on my understanding, symbol oriented people, so non-ADHD people require identification with the Symbol (career, degree, marrige, etc) in order to exist in resonance. This is why they tend to be able to commit to jobs or careers really early without much exploration since they cannot stand living in an "identity vacuum".

Since people with ADHD don't fear that identity vacuum they have the ontological freedom to postpone the decision. The downside, of course, is that early specialization and therefore early success is unlikely.

[Jacob Morres]

dawg youve been asking this same exact question for 4 years now

from 2023

experience is the best book for success (real talk)

sorry ;; 

js - you technically dont even need books for success. most successful people dont read books on success. js. their knowledge is majority from mentorship + action 

Edited 15 hours ago by Jacob Morres

[Joseph Maynor]

This one helped me a lot when I first got into self help.  

"Success Is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life" by Rick Pitino

[Ramanujan]

@Jacob Morres i have trouble choosing between success principles and mastery. What do I do

 

Which is better

 

[Ramanujan]

@Joseph Maynor ok. Need to check that out