Reading is crucial. It is a significant means to advance oneself as well as a way to fill up the gaps left by official education. But reading alone is insufficient. It matters what you read and how you use it. Reading what everyone else reads could be helpful for conversation, but it won't help you come up with new ideas.
If you can't change your perspective, you'll always be the one-legged
man in the ass kicking competition. In light of this, here are five books that
will transform your life and help you see things from a fresh perspective.
1. Models of my Life by Herbert
Simon.
Herbert
A. Simon, a brilliant polymath who won the Nobel Prize, writes his
autobiography. He's a rare generalist in an age of increasing specialisation,
bringing what he learnt as a scientist to other facets of his life. He was at
an interdisciplinary crossroads known as "information sciences." He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for his "bounded rationality" theory, but
is arguably best remembered for the wise statement, "A wealth of
information creates a poverty of attention."


