Recommendations for books that positively impacted you/broadened your perspective?

I’ll go first : Untamed, Crying in H Mart, Fahrenheit 451, Man’s Search For Meaning, How the Word is Passed

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Meditations. Stoics were light years ahead of their time. Lessons from 2000+ years ago are just as applicable now.

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I hated Man’s Search for Meaning.

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Probably because I had to read it for my ethics class in a catholic high school lol.

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Five Regrets of the Dying… lessons learned from a hospice worker. So powerful.

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A New Earth, Caste, The Molecule of More, Stamped from the Beginning, A More Beautiful Question, Allow Me to Retort

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Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

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Freakonomics

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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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Omg this book made me sob

Atomic habits.
One of the best books out there.

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Against the loveless world.
Untamed.
Educated.
A radical awakening.
Born a crime
Unbound

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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

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Daring greatly.

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