I am driving from San Jose to Maine on Monday on my own. Can anyone recommend any audiobooks? Im treating this trip as an opportunity to think about what to do with my life instead of consulting so books that would help with that is what I am after.

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Thomas Sowell’s A Personal Odyssey
Ray Dalio’s Principals
Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene

Also safe travels. That’s a heck of a drive.

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Trevor Noah Born a Crime was amazing

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John Coltrane "A Love Supreme", Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", Dave Brubeck "Time Out". Brad Mehldau "Mon Chien Stupide". Joni Mitchell "Shadows and Light" with the best jazz fusion rhythm section ever. Weather Report "Heavy Weather". Thelonious Monk "Straight No Chaser". Any Chic Corea. Not audio books, but any of these will open your mind to new possibilities as you ponder life. Just put them on and drive! You don't need external voices - the answer to whatever is bothering you is within you. You just need something that lets your mind roam.

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Thank-you SM1! Michael Brecker is on the Joni Mitchell album. Don't know if you've heard it. I will definitely listen to your additions!

If you want your mind to be blown about white collar fraud...

Start with Bad Blood (about theranos and how silicon valley, Walgreens, the military, Safeway, etc. were all fooled into believing and buying a product that never existed)

Then followed with billion dollar whale (about jho loh and the 1MDB heist. How a guy set up a sovereign wealth fund for Malaysia and stole BILLIONS. Then on top of that, pretty much every celebrity you can think of was in one way or another connected to loh (not part of the crime, but part of the extravagant spending)

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Wow! How many days will that take? Do you just sleep over at motels on the road?

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You are correct. I definitely need more to save my sanity. I am camping, a family member has a compromised immune system, and this is the only way I can see them. I plan on taking 7-8 days to do this and have found some great places to stop and see some parks on the way.

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The Bible because only god can help you with that drive

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Flow - mihaly csikszentmihalyi

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Finding your why — Simon Sinek

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Hope you have adaptive cruise control on your car

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Buy wrath of the khans from Dan carlins website , fantastic audiobook about Genghis khan. It'll fly by.

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I liked That Will Never Work (about Netflix) and I generally find stories of entrepreneurship inspire me to think creatively about what I want for my life and what I could do.

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If you’re into podcasts and tech, I highly recommend the podcast Acquired

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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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I just thought it was overly long. I liked what he was selling but not how it was packaged.

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen

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Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

Sounds like fun. Be careful! Hope you are camping. Some amazing spots on the way.

I would try some podcasts. Tony Robbins. Maybe find some in an area of business or career that interests you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘Nature’

Get Scribd. It's like $8 and basically the Netflix for books and audiobooks.

I loved “to live and die in la” podcast. Got me from Des Moinea to Cheyenne almost on a similar route

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