In this section, I will post on books I find helpful in gaining better perspective and understanding of self and the world.

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What To Say When You Talk To Your Self by Shad Helmstetter

This book offers a good insight into how we speak to ourselves and through this gate we can evolve and hone the inner voice and replace negative self talk with a positive and productive voice that can help with calm, better decision making and with inner honesty.

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson

This book covers in great length many historical and cultural stories and through reading and considering the many themes we learn to better understand ourselves and others and communicate better with understanding of many things we either do not see or take for granted.

Louder Than Words by Joe Navarro

This book opens the door to listening to the more subtle ques the body and our physical behavior present to the environment. We can learn to be more attentive to our own behavior and our tells and also in reading and communicating with others at work and everywhere. One special thing about this book it shows several cultural differences between cultures to better prepare us for possible encounters and this can increase your safety and ability all around the world.

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

This book opens the door to honest and effective leadership and how groups and cultures are build in positive and effective ways. One mark to note is how instead of separation and ego, a good leader and a good group is formed with openness and honesty to create real bonds and proper communication.

The Primacy of Doubt by Tim Palmer

This book has a great gift inside it. The permission to question and to make mistakes with an open mind. If follows with many interesting stories the way people think and make decisions and how mistakes can often be avoided by broadening the way we perceive systems instead of linear processes and how our emotions can both guide us to the truth or mislead us depending on how we employ them.

The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success by Andy McNab

This is a good book on the mindset of people who are at harms way a lot. It provides many lessons on how to evaluate and behave under pressure and how to lead a life with less fear even when trouble is everywhere. A very valuable read for young soldiers and for anyone looking to understand the hidden parts of ourselves.

The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin Mitnick

This book can be read as a technical and human engineering manual but also as a portal to the mindset of a master hacker. This hacker used many forms of human engineering and many technical openings to get things and get to information and can teach us all about thinking outside the box and how to be persuasive and effective in conversation and how to facilitate and orchestrate setups and read them properly.

The Like Switch by The Like Switch

This book gives great insights to patterns that govern and affect our communication and our interpenetration of what we see hear and feel in different parts of the globe. It shows in many interesting stories how to read the people and groups we encounter and how understand and work with our own preconceptions and the group’s dynamics. It is a great read for travelers who wish to be safe and alert in smart ways while traveling and also for anyone who wishes to talk with people with more competence and smoothness.

Just 2 Seconds: Using Time and Space to Defeat Assassins and Other Adversaries by Gavin de Becker

This great book deals with danger in a professional way. It shows deep research on protection detail psychology and tactics, it gives great insight on how to train for preparedness that is deeper than surface behavior and above all it remains human and positive instead of going toward pose and aggression.

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

This book is a internal search for meaning and humanity from a holocaust survivor who took the terrible reality of what humanity can become and still maintained his humanity and aim to do good. The main idea of searching for a goal greater than himself is told in many stories of what he experience and witnessed. A hard but important read.