The Books That Changed My Life
Some books change you. They shift your perspective. They stay with you. Man Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. A Holocaust survivor argues that meaning is the primary human drive
Some books change you. They shift your perspective. They stay with you.
Man Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. A Holocaust survivor argues that meaning is the primary human drive. Not pleasure, not power. Meaning. That idea changed how I approach everything.
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. A novel about faith, doubt, and family. It contains a chapter called The Grand Inquisitor that is the best thing ever written about free will.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. A Roman emperor personal journal. He was writing to himself. Somehow it speaks to everybody two thousand years later.
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. A book about writing. It is also a book about life. Short, funny, wise.
The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien. A book about war that is not really about war. It is about storytelling and memory.
These books are part of me now. That is what great books do.