(Part 2) Top products from r/BettermentBookClub

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We found 20 product mentions on r/BettermentBookClub. We ranked the 65 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

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u/BowTieTime · 2 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

>Do you do this after you read the book, or during?

I'm actively doing this while I'm reading the book. It helps that I'm usually reading a book with my laptop in front of me, but if I don't have my laptop I'll usually just jot down some notes in the margins/highlight/write on scrap papers and then put it in my mindmap later. I see this as being a tool for me to go back and absorb information quickly months down the line so I don't have to reread a book a bunch to pick up ideas again.

> Is the software just for desktop/laptop use or smart phone too? (And how do you use it?)

It's opensource so I don't think they have an app. However there are a bunch of mindmap softwares out there so I'm sure there is one that links to mobile. I just happen to like this one because it's free! As to how to use it, there is a fairly good help page in the software once you download it and you pick up how to use it after reading it for ~30 minutes or so.

> I'd love to see your completed one if you want to post it!

I'll make a post about it or link to it here once I have a good one. Currently filling one out for this subreddit's current reading so I'll post it in a week or two.

u/airandfingers · 2 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

What kinds of deductive reasoning? I'd recommend practice and study of a specific application of deduction over reading about it in general.

I've played several games that require deduction:

  • Flow Free: Android iOS
  • Hashi: Android iOS
  • Slitherlink: Android iOS
  • Paint By Numbers/Hanjie: Web (can be printed for pencil and paper), Web
  • Electric Box: Web, requires Flash

    Other examples are Logic grids, Sudoku, and many others.

    I find that deduction is a skill that's easy to develop in a particular domain (like any of the above games), but hard to generalize. Playing the above games for fun, I've developed a better understanding of how to use proof by contradiction, but not much else.

    Those kinds of high-level ideas are probably best learned from a logic textbook like Introduction to Logic, but the abstract knowledge may not translate to practical skills without domain-specific practice and study.
u/callmejay · 3 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

>might not follow through with the lessons in the book.

This seems like the obvious avenue for improvement. If a lesson seems promising, try it.

Maybe it would help to try books that are more like workbooks? This is one of the best ever written.

u/4Nuts · 1 pointr/BettermentBookClub



>Don’t Try
Don’t try to achieve this more and more mentality society tells you to do

  • isn't hope, the interest to have more a motivation for life?
    If you don't want more, you are losing interest out of life; you are mentally dead. Wanting more is normal and natural.

    >Happiness is the problem
    >Find something worth struggling for, not what makes you happy

    The science is clear: happiness helps to achieve; to be more productive. You can check out the happiness advantage (https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Psychology-Performance/dp/0307591549) if you think happiness is irrelevant. Indeed, the happiness of an individual is a predictor of his success in many aspects of his/her life.

    >You are not special
    >The first step for meaningful self-improvement is admitting you’re normal

    Well, unless I am a narcissist, I admit that some part of me is normal; and some part of me is specific to myself. Isn't it a biological reality that every individual is unique to some degree (specific DNA)? how about people are not normal? What if I have a lower IQ than the regular people, am I supposed to consider myself as "normal"?
    This is a stupid generalized advice without considering the reality about each individual.



    This is fucking childish book. I don't want to waste my time pointing out every fucking flawed advise (claim).
u/Numero34 · 2 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

I have three of them. Meditations, Tao Te Ching, and Man's Search for Meaning.

I read Tao Te Ching many years ago. I think it was above my reading level at the time as I can't recall much about it. I wasn't really paying attention to what I was reading or properly digesting it.

I have the Gregory Hays' version of Meditations. It's up next after I'm done Flow. So far Flow mentions quite a few things I recognize from Stoicism. Directly mentions Diogenes in the first chapter.

Man's Search for Meaning will probably follow shortly after Meditations.

I've only heard of the Bhagavad Gita, so that's as familiar as I am with it. I assume it's a book of wisdom or something like that from India.

I do make notes of the books I read, so if you'd like I can forward them to you when they're ready. Currently putting together some for How to Read a Book, The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, and Atomic Habits.

u/ericxfresh · 3 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

off the top of my head:

Meditations, with The Inner Citadel as a reader

Letters from a Stoic

A Guide to the Good Life by Irvine

Do The Work by Pressfield as well as The War of Art by Pressfield

Managing Oneself by Ducker

Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl

What Predicts Divorce by Gottman

Nicomachean Ethics

Models by Manson seems to be popular on reddit

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Newport, as well

I'm currently reading Triumphs of Experience by Vaillant and find it insightful.

u/funny_funny_business · 6 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

The Power of a Positive No

This was one of the best self-help books I’ve read. It’s not “it’s hard to say no but you just really need to say it sometimes even though you don’t want to”, it’s more like “what’s the alternative if I don’t say no; why do I want to say no” and is really helpful for understanding relationships.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553384260

u/shazam9 · 1 pointr/BettermentBookClub

I didn't read these to cure any addiction but sure everyone has some bad habits which they would like to take care of. I'm big on self improvement so try to ready as much as I can in that category.

If you're dealing with bad habits or addiction, I'd highly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Lock-Twentieth-Anniversary-Obsessive-Compulsive/dp/006256143X

Even though the book is about curing OCD, but the 4 steps mentioned in this book can be applied to any kind of bad behavior or habit. Also, if you want to change habits, then power of habit gives you a really good insight as to how habits are build.

u/OneSource13 · 2 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

If you have any slight interest in philosophy I would recommend On The Shortness of Life

u/conjunctionjunction1 · 2 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

the power of one by byrce courtenay is exactly what you're looking for. Very similar to the alchemist, very inspiring.

u/exploring_guy · 1 pointr/BettermentBookClub

As you note, I typically use Kindle and save my highlights. Back in the days when I would read physical books, I always wondered about something like this product, but I never tried it: https://www.amazon.com/Scanmarker-Air-Digital-Highlighter-Translator/dp/B01N07J2AE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487543445&sr=8-1&keywords=digital+highlighter

u/Toast_Sapper · 6 pointsr/BettermentBookClub

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

This book helped me immensely. It's written by a psychologist who has spent a ton of time researching the mechanisms and psychological basis of Procrastination, and he explains thoroughly both why we procrastinate and how to stop.

He also has a blog and podcast series where he gives further material and exercises to help stop procrastinating. I can't recommend this book more highly.