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u/KenshiroTheKid · 8 pointsr/bookclapreviewclap

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u/NeverSophos · 3 pointsr/selfimprovement

As mentioned about Carnegie is a must. Otherwise I'd recommend King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, Staying Healthy with the Seasons (some of the nutrition info is out dated but the core of the book is still great), The Book of Five Rings.

u/thekiyote · 2 pointsr/Throwers

God, this is something I've thought about a lot...

I lived in Japan when I was in college, and one of the biggest things I noticed was the huge difference the two cultures have on learning, what I ended up calling The Cult of Originality and The Cult of Mastery.

In The Cult of Mastery, the Japanese method, originality isn't valued as highly as the complete mastery of the fundamentals, followed by the mastery of an already existing style. After multiple styles are mastered, that's when the learner can start melding them together, to create something unique, and perhaps his own style, but this is an afterthought, not the goal.

The other side of the coin is the American Cult of Originality, in which the goal is to create new material from day one, and the fundamentals are only a stepping stone to that creation of your own new material.

To put this in return top terms, in Japan, a flawless execution of a routine in Jensen Kimmet's style will score higher in a competition than a flawed original execution. In America, the reverse is true, originality will always win.

My biggest takeaway from all of this, as an American, is to not give a shit if people think my style is derivative. I've only been taking throwing seriously for about nine months, which ain't a long time. I will keep drilling the fundamentals, and mimicking styles I like, all with the faith that originality will come at when those fundamentals are not enough.

If you like this line of thinking, I would really recommend the books The Art of Learning (by the guy who Searching for Bobby Fisher was based on, who became a world champion in martial arts later on in life), The Road to Excellence (which is expensive, but you can find pdfs of on the internet), Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, and The Book of Five Rings

u/arcsecond · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Like say the US Marine Corps' Professional Reading List? I think all branches have reading lists.

One's I've actually read::

I'm particularly fond of The Village by Bing West.

There's Power To The Edge which is more modern

Also yes, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, also Nicolo Machiavelli's Art of War, On War by Clausewitz, On Combat by Grossman even though I have some issues with it.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot The Book of Five Rings by Musashi

u/sylkworm · 2 pointsr/martialarts

The only ones I can think of is Hagakure and Go Rin No Sho. Obviously, you'd have to track down the japanese version of the books (I assume via amazon.jp), but I neither speak nor read japanese, so I would defer to you.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/selfimprovement

This is wonderful thank you!

Highly recommended from my own bookshelves, in no particular order

u/avatar_of_internet · 1 pointr/westworld

> That's last in the book so either I've read the book or I had read the wikipedia page before you mentioned it

You already said you didn't read the book, so yeah, the table of contents in the wikipedia article mentioned it, or you pulled it from a quote site. We already know you didn't read it.

> h, and it also happens to be very near the bottom of the wikipedia page, suggesting that I did in fact not only read the first paragraph.

Or one of those other options. Good job, though. I'm sure you totally grocked the book of the void in all its context by skipping to the end of the wiki article (assuming that's what you did).

> You still don't get it do you. The downvotes are there because you aren't even making arguments for your cause.

I don't need to argue. You haven't read the book, you don't know enough about it to make any suggestions about its material. It's a book about martial prowess and the mindset with which you approach combat. Trying to pull anything else out of it is a fool's errand- which you've proven by trying to do without so much as an initial reading.

You aren't equipped to talk about it. I tried to be nice, but you just aren't. Let me know when you've given it a nice, respectful reading, and then we can talk.

https://smile.amazon.com/Book-Five-Rings-Miyamoto-Musashi/dp/1590309847/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481739643&sr=8-1&keywords=book+of+five+rings

Here you go. It's cheap and if you use that link something will go to charity. Buy it, read it over a month or so (it's short, but not meant to be taken in a single brief reading), and come back when you have an opinion worth taking into account.

u/Fomalhaut-b · 1 pointr/anime

Thank you, I'm flattered

that you could be impressed by five book that I hold dear to my heart. I have strong feelings about adding books to my collection, as it's far more important to me to know a book, that to simply be able to purchase it. I have far too many books that I confess I'm only acquainted with, and do not know deeply :( A good book owns me as much as I own it. I carry it with me in my thoughts.

>I would love to read more about that but I have this fear of not understanding their way of life, of respect, of loyalty to the monarch/ shogun.

Instead, please take my offering of a small library of five books on samurai aesthetics.

  • Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. This was written in the Shogunal period. Read this one.
  • The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. This is written a little earlier, and concerns itself with swordsmanship.
  • Bushido the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe. This is a more recent work, written after the Meiji Restoration.
  • The fourth book on this list should be on Kyudo (archery)- (such as found quoted by Emiya Shirou in F S/N.)
  • Fifth book is a free choice: my personal pick is The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, from the Heian period, for poetry. The alternate contenders would be The Book of Tea, for Zen; or The Art of War, for Confucianism.

    I hope you are much more impress by the quality of the words written in these books, and what they might evoke in you, rather than their habitation in my life. I am but the humble reader.
u/TheNaturalMan · 1 pointr/exmormon

Pick up a copy of The Book of Five Rings or The Dhammapada and add them to your study. You can still read the Bible and Mormon "scriptures" but approach them as literary works: character, dialogue, plot, theme, metaphor, philosophy, etc.