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Rich Dad Poor Dad catches a lot of flak, but it's actually really good at teaching the absolute basics in an easy-to-follow manner. Like, learn what a Cash Flow Statement is, increase your asset column, learn basic accounting language, separate emotions and money, minimize taxes. Just glean the overall principles he's teaching and don't blindly follow his specific strategies.

The Richest Man in Babylon is another great, easy to read, investing 101 book.

And The Millionaire Next Door is a research-based book on Millionaires in America and what kind of habits and mindsets got them to their current wealth. It's a wonderfully refreshing read after being brainwashed by tv and movies saying that millionaires won it or stole it and live lavish lives. Most actual millionaires are pretty frugal and hard working with modest lives.

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And here are some resources to help you learn all the new words and concepts:

• Investopedia
  
• Bogleheads
  
• Khan Academy
  -- Microeconomics
  -- Macroeconomics
  -- Finance
  
• Personal Finance subreddit
  
• Investing subreddit
  
• Finance subreddit
  
• Accounting subreddit
  
• Financial Independence subreddit
  
• Business subreddit
  
• Economics subreddit
  
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  And when you get pretty familiar with the basics and want to start messing with stuff, I've enjoyed the Think or Swim paper money route. They give you $200,000 in fake money to play around with and invest and practice your strategies. It helps you get acquainted with the research and the interface and the fees for investing. It's a wonderful tool.
  
  And then The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is supposed to be a pretty good comprehensive guide the advanced basics (is that a term?) of investing.
  
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  Or if you want to skip alllll of this and just hire someone, I've read in those subreddits that you want to find a fee based financial adviser. Which you can do here.
  
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  I hope I've helped man! It's a lot of fun to learn about. I wish you all the best.

Keep a dream journal. Doesn't matter if you can only remember vague details, or if you are not even sure if a dream scene occurred; write down ANYTHING that might be relevant to your dreams. Every serious dreamer has one handy nearby.

Your brother is right. Everyone has dreams--which is just REM sleep--and their frequency increases per hour as the period of time of sleeping progresses.

The number one site I recommend is Dream Views. I know the site is dedicated to lucid dreaming, but 1) there are a lot of people on the site who have the same problem that you have in terms of remembering stuff and 2) your chances of experiencing a lucid dream increases as your recall of dreams also increases. The best books I know that deal with dreaming are: 1) Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, 2) Control Your Dreams, and 3) The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Each contain a tiny bit of new age stuff, but if you are able to ignore those details then you're golden. The only one I advise against for now is book number 3; you need to place a LOT of effort in order to effectively carry out the exercises the book describes. It's well-written and informative though.

A topic that you might find of interest is "Dream Yoga". Like the 3rd book, don't do it if you're a beginner or you suck at meditation.

Finally some more modern stuff: A SciAm article about dreaming and a "HowStuffWorks" section on dream recall.

I know most of this stuff talks about lucid dreaming, but dream recall and lucid dreaming are interconnected with each other. At some point during the recording of your dreams you will have a lucid dream and most likely you will freak out. You might have already had one, but I can never be too cautious.

A last bit, if you are interested in taking supplements. If not, then you can skip this part. Anyways, there's an excellent book that talks about supplements that can increase your dream recall. The majority of them are recognized nootropics, while others are a bit sketch. The book is called Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements. You can also look up "dream supplements" on google. Here is my personal list of supplements that I have been taking for about 1-2 months now:
25 mg of DHEA
650mg of choline
B-complex 100 to get 100mg of B6
8 mg of galantamine
530 mg of Valerian Root
5 mg Melatonin time release (You only need 1 mg, but I did not know this when I bought my bulk supply)
500 mg of Bacopa Monniera
My dreams haven't been that weird, while my recall is more improved than usual (I have been lucid dreaming and remembering my dreams since 6 years old, though it might have been even earlier. Can't remember). No major mood swings, though the above ^ dosages work perfectly fine with my body. I did my own personal research and estimated the supplements' effects on my body though, so I wouldn't recommend using my dosages. I'm 17 btw if you were wondering how the supplements might affect a developing brain; no major changes from what I can tell.

Something that you might want to start, if you haven't already: meditation. Not only does it decrease the daily stress you get, but it helps hone your concentration skills. You also learn how to relax yourself fairly quickly :D There have been some studies that meditation helps increase dream recall/frequency of lucid dreams, though I can't find that many right now...

tl;dr version:
Keep a dream journal. Read some books about lucid dreaming and dream recall. Go on a website called "Dream Views" and immerse yourself in their tutorials/FAQs. If you're serious about remembering your dreams then look up "Dream Yoga"; a good resource is this website. Meditation helps A LOT.

I haven't read all of it and I'm sure it's probably a simplification of more nuanced ideas, but check out Josh Kaufman's The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything Fast. It seems to be about how to maximize certain skills and habits to create an ideal brain environment for processing new information. Other books that may relate to the goal you described include How We Learn, Make It Stick: The Science of Successfully Learning, or perhaps even something like Robert Greene's Mastery. There's even a Coursera course out called "Learning How to Learn" that probably delves into a lot of the ideas explored in the aforementioned books, and a guy named Cal Newport has a whole blog that investigates what study habits are actually useful and which are not.

Also, I don't think the idea should be to obtain knowledge as much as have a solid foundation in thinking critically and learning how to learn. Your original post implies that you seem to view learning as stuffing your brain full of (hopefully factual) ideas to produce something recognizable as "knowledge"; a better way to conceptualize this process is that you develop skills in learning, processing information, and thinking in general with the hopes that it will enable you to draw on a wider range of knowledge and ideas when they crop up. Hence why I suggested books that are about learning and information processing; if you can end up making learning, studying, and reflecting a habit that you naturally come to do, perhaps you can begin a fuller mental life in general instead of simply becoming a walking encyclopedia.

This book, Level up your life might be helpful. It's about treating your life like a video game. You complete quests, fight bosses, and level up.

Oh yeah, and 4 Hour Workweek might be up your alley. I haven't read this one, but my best friend loves it and I've read some of his other books, which were very good.
It wasn't the best read - I felt like I was getting a sales pitch the entire time - but it definitely had some good ideas in it.

The best route is to take up a course on Logic.

Study introductory predicate logic. Break statements into predicates - identify their antecedent and consequent. Identify the differences between a predicate's negation, inverse, converse, and contrapositive; more importantly, how they can be used to derive logical Truth. Familiarize yourself with Gödel's completeness theorem.

Next, learn to identify a fallacy; study up on logical fallacies.

Cognitive Biases are the next most important step. Being aware of your own cognitive biases will help you identify when your analyses are being skewed.

Study everything about everything. More information about your domain of concern will granter you further insight for analysis.

Lastly, take care of yourself. Get lots of sleep, eat healthy, and exercise; your judgement will be impaired if you don't.


Some books to help:

• Aristotle's Organon: Amalgamation of Aristotle's work on logic and reason. The starting point for most Logisticians.
  
• Critique of Pure Reason: Kant's works on logic and reason are pretty much mandatory - but require careful study.
  
• Critique of Practical Reason: Another of Kant's works. Read this after the critique of pure reason.
  
• Science of Logic: Hegel's work is an extension of Kant and Aristotle - also mandatory.
  
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Hume's works are a much easier read, but aren't as explicitly stated.
  
• Informal Logic a Pragmatic Approach: The best introductory logic book I've read.
  
• LANGUAGE, COGNITION, AND HUMAN NATURE: Steve Pinker has an unique perspective as a psychologist, linguist, and cog. scientist. This book highlights some of his more interesting insights.
  
• Thought and Language: Offers interesting insights into some innate biases in language and culture.
  
• A Rulebook For Arguments: This provides nice introductory reference material for fallacies and argumentation.
  
• Thank you for Arguing: Exploits fallacies and cognitive biases to pursuade an audience in an argument. Witty and easy to read.
  
  Edit: Added book suggestions.

Aerthe has some solid points, but let me add a few. I really like to use /r/kickassday as an online to do list. I've used lots of stuff like my phone's calendar, or Remember The Milk, but since they're never easily right there in front of me, publicly, I don't use them. Talking about your daily agenda sometimes helps you get them done. There is also /r/getmotivated.

And another one is a book, that I highly suggest reading: The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. It's mostly about freeing yourself from the standard style workforce, but I've found it extremely helpful in determining what you want out of life. His way for setting goals and working to achieve them is excellent.

You know what? I have an awful memory. My SO gets mad at me all the time because she'll tell me things and I'll inevitably forget them.

Which is to say that your memory isn't holding you back. It's the way you interact with information you want to retain that is the problem here, much like it was for me.

My background is that I wanted to "become smarter". Didn't know wtf that meant but I figured reading book was important to that goal so that's what I did. I've read some really awesome books and I can tell you that I don't remember a lot of them.

However, there is a book that you should absolutely read to learn to how correctly interact with the information you're trying to retain: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler. The book is an instruction manual on how to read books effectively, so as to learn from them and really really understand them.

Nowadays, I can't say that I remember specific parts of books that I read, but I absolutely can recall the general idea of a book (which is often helpful in conversation) and whereabouts in the book I read something so I can look it up again if I need to.

And this information can be applied to literally anything you read.

As far as learning in general, Make It Stick was alright. Would recommend, but it's pretty basic.

I was discussing with a friend about computers as I'm a Computer Engineer and learned all about the design and ground up construction from the principals of electronics up through logic gates operating systems and programming as a part of my college curriculum. He said he read through this book and it was very insigtful and was able to have a good proper discussion about it. I'm not sure if linking is allowed but here it is on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Computing-Systems-Principles/dp/0262640686

It's The Elements of Computing System Principles by Noam Nisan.

From there if you're further interested you'll know which topics might be more interesting to you and you'll be able to better investigate it. It's really a lot of material, and after 4 years of school, I know quite a bit about it, but people tend to specialize due to the sheer amount of material there is to learn about each specific topic. Lifetimes have been devoted to singular aspects of computer design so don't feel bad if some of it is overwhelming.

This looks like a good book

http://www.amazon.com/MAKE-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/0596153740/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279769926&sr=8-3

This IS a good book but deals with advanced theories.


http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279769926&sr=8-16


And this looks pretty good.

http://www.amazon.com/Circuitbuilding-Yourself-Dummies-Ward-Silver/dp/0470173424/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279769941&sr=8-21


Go to the book store, pick up some books. Go the the library and see what they have. Pick up old radios and junk off of the street take them home and pull them apart but be careful of the capacitors, if you dont know what a capacitor is then read one of the above books.

Look on craigslist for free electronics and start taking them apart. Be careful of anything that uses Alternating current, anything that plugs into a wall deals with large voltages so be sure to start small.

I highly recommend Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, which is basically a simplified and actionable version of his more popular book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

Note: I have not read the latter book.

PsyBlog is also great (not related to Cialdini).
And of course, How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic and is still relevant.

Check out The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal -- Amazon Link -- 56 reviews averaging 5/5 stars (EDIT: I rounded, its 4.8/5 stars... still impressive). Pretty good right?

I'm honestly a pretty big skeptic when it comes to self-help books but she attacks the entire process scientifically and allows you to take the changes one step at a time. It's at the very least an interesting read. It should help you put together some steps to attack your lack of willpower though. You can't get anywhere without a plan and sometimes simply figuring out the steps to that plan is more difficult than executing it.

Just getting up and doing it doesn't help me everyday. It helps some days but not all. Check out the book or at least figure out your long term goals and the steps you'll need to take to achieve them and then live your day accordingly.

A philosophy I live by (started recently and if someone has said this before, I apologize for making it seem like my own... but if no one has - then it's mine :) haha) -- Live today as a better person than yesterday and I don't mean the person you were a week ago, or a year ago... I mean literally yesterday. Be better than that guy (or girl). If you fail at it today, it's okay. It'll make tomorrow that much easier but just continue to be better than yesterday.

K my two cents.

I used to work in sales. I was pretty good at it according to the awards I won.

The first step is know your product. You should be able to answer every question. You need to be confident that you can answer those questions. That's just a lot of reading.

For the soft skills I recommend reading both of these books.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Penetrating-Secret-Society-Artists/dp/0060554738

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What aren't you confident about?

My suggestion would be to practice meeting new people regularly. Just get out there and start talking to people. Talk to anyone, men or women, young or old. Especially talk to beautiful women. Be friendly and kind and go out of your way to start conversations with total strangers. It'll probably be awkward at first, and you'll definitely get shut down a few times and it will hurt, but it will get better. You'll start to realize that getting turned down is the worse thing that could happen and it won't kill you, and the conversations that do go well will really boost your confidence and make you feel empowered. You might want to check out The Game by Neil Strauss.

read books, good salesmanship is simply understanding who you're selling too. There's plenty of good books on negotiation and psychology etc that you can read to understand the mindset of the people you're selling to.

Read it all. There's books about the power of yes, trying to get them to agree to little things and get used to saying yes before you ask them the big thing. There's another book about the power of no, how getting people to say no can help you get a final yes at the end. It's very interesting to read both sides of the argument and you can use your knowledge of both sides to craft your sale pitches.

And finally since i don't want to seem like i'm a long winded person that just throws out words, here's two book recommendations -Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

links: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847941494/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006124189X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I would highly suggest investing the time and money in Lessons. You will improve much faster under the guidance of a teacher (even just once or twice a month) than by yourself. If you absolutely refuse to go this route, however, I would suggest getting "Alfred's Basic All-In-One Piano Course Book One" (https://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic/dp/0882848186). Go through this book and the others in the series (I think there are 3 total) and by then you should have enough technique under your fingers to be able to learn whatever songs/tunes/pieces you want.

Speaking as a professional musician (classical trumpet player) I can't stress enough the value of practicing scales and other "boring" technical exercises. These fundamentals are the building blocks of virtually all the music you'll ever play and the more you practice them, the easier it will be to learn new music. Good luck and happy practicing!

You’ve got to have a piano or at least a keyboard. Once you get one I’d recommend this piano book: Adult All-In-One Course: Lesson-Theory-Technic: Level 1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882848186/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_.hRQAb5KQXXJC. It covers a lot of the basics and is pretty straightforward. Teaches chords, hand positions, note names, different styles, and etc. if you ever need any help shoot me a pm! Best of luck.

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. First, what are you selling? A product you make? Ebook? Or are you selling something wholesale that's produced elsewhere? Dropshipping?

Some good places to start are by reading the 4 Hour Work-Week. Tim is great at showing how this is done, and how to start a successful e-commerce biz by filling in a gap in the market. I also appreciate his time management suggestions. I also turn to a lot of other places on the web for suggestions... Here's a few to get you started!

Entrepreneur.com

r/Ecommerce

r/SmallBusiness

I'd agree with all of this, I honestly can't remember how I learned the notes myself. I think it just came naturally from playing.

In terms of finger exercises a really good book I have is "The Virtuoso Pianist" by Charles-Louis Hanon. As you can see by that link it seems to have a good few criticisms but I found it really good myself. I'd say you should go over them with your piano teacher now and again just to ensure you aren't drilling them incorrectly. A possible way you could learn the notes as well could be by saying them out loud as you are doing the exercises.

You can check it out on IMSLP here anyway and decide for yourself, or if you'd prefer a hard copy of it there are plenty on amazon too.

Stephen King wrote a book a while back called ON WRITING that, while being more focused on writing novels and short stories, details many of the pitfalls that new writers will encounter when starting a new story. It's a fantastic tool, written by somebody that knows a thing or two about telling good stories, and it can help you get a leg up. I highly recommend it!

As for formatting a document to conform to screenplay requirements, try this wonderful software called Trelby

For thinking like a mathematician, try this book. May be a bit simplistic in the beginning, but it is clear and may offer you a different perspective.

Another issue may be with your study or practice habits. Try this course on Learning How to Learn (or this book, which is by the teacher of that course and essentially the same material).

Finally, this dude's site has some good descriptions of difficult concepts.

Good luck. You can do it with effort.

A dream journal is definitely the way to go. Also, try to give yourself time when you wake up to stay still and remember your dream. The sooner you start to move around, get coffee, shower, etc. it'll slip away.

There are a few good books on the subject. It's good to saturate yourself with the topic. Read books, visit forums, re-read your journal. I began lucid dreaming 4 years ago or so, and my room mate had a lucid dream without trying anything at all just because I talked about it so much. So the more you're thinking about it/exposing yourself to it, the more likely it will be to be in a dream and think "Am I dreaming?"

http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-World-Dreaming-Stephen-LaBerge/dp/034537410X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1312955635&sr=8-2

Best online resource: All about circuits

Best Book: Art of Electronics

Best starting projects: Working with the basic stamp (though any other microcontroller kit would work just as well)

Like /r/falafel_eater says, check into nand2tetris. Here is the companion book: The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.

This is really good stuff. The book uses Java, but you can use another language (I used python). It starts by implementing a nand gate, and using that to implement and, or, xor gates. These gates are used to implement simple chips, then simple cpus. Further abstractions include a simple machine language, assembler, and finally a compiler for a high level language and a simple graphics library that is used to implement a Tetris game. Hence, nand2tetris.

This stuff is awesome. You will have a great time!

Further things you can look at (sorry I am to lazy to provide links) are 'Bebop to the Boolean Boogie' and 'How Computers do Math', both by Clive Maxfield, and 'Code' by Charles Petzold.

Then I cannot recommend this enough
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

And the book by the author of the course
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra-ebook/dp/B00G3L19ZU

Really invaluable and easy to follow. Works great for me and I hope for you as well.

The Book Thank you for arguing is a good start.

But if you would like to focus more on clearly articulating your thoughts, rather than comparing your thoughts with others (i.e debate), I would suggest reading up on the following topics:

• Khan Academy: Focus on the "logic" lessons under the mathematics category.
  
• Understand the differences between converse, inverse, and contrapositive; Then, practice using them.
  
• Read up on Logical Fallacies.
  
• Study the differences between subjectivity and objectivity under as many contexts as possible.
  
• Practice swapping the context of a conversation in such a way that the previous dialogue is still consistent with the new, unrelated context.
  
• Keep posting on reddit and continue to facilitate a platform for rigorous intellectual discourse.

There's a Hanon book of exercises, I used it when I was taking lessons. It will help primarily with dexterity, but it can help you learn to read music as well.

edit: http://www.amazon.com/Hanon-Exercises-Acquirement-Independence-Schirmers/dp/0793525446

cheap, worth it.

I had great success with some of the advice in this book:

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming https://www.amazon.com/dp/034537410X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_t-8WAbXJAM1DX

Check the “Learn to Learn” course I’m Coursera. One of the instructors is an author of books that are related to improve learning of science subjects. The course link is: Learn to Learn. One of the books is A mind for Numbers. I really recommend you to do this course or read the book. If it makes it easier, get the audiobook. Audible has 1 month trial that you can use.

I'll be the second person to recommend the following book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386[1]

It has all you need to know. Read it slowly, surely, and follow the clear, practical advice.

If you haven't read it already, Stephen King's book On Writing offers a lot of advice. Some of it's interesting, some of it is... odd, but there are some good pointers in there. It's a decent book, as well.

http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Chef-Learning-Anything/dp/0547884591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368200006&sr=8-1&keywords=4+hour+cookbook

I've heard very good things about that book, and concerning money, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, when u use vegetables as your main part of a meal its pretty easy to get a cheap meal, at least cheaper than all the frozen pizza and other crap

The book Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning should be helpful to you.

Have a look at this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intelligent-Investor-Benjamin-Graham/dp/0060555661/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300704487&sr=8-1. It is written by the guy who taught Warren Buffet to invest and mostly covers the general approach and mechanics of investing in fundamentals. It's the bible of personal investing. I would check out the links other redditors provided for the very basics, then read this book to understand the overarching concepts. Good luck!

I recently bought The 4-Hour Chef and it's pretty amazing. Not only does he teach you to cook in minimal time but I'm using his technique to learn a new language quickly. Highly recommended (1,348 reviewers can't be wrong).

Spend $10 on a copy of I Will Teach You to Be Rich. The title is mostly a joke, but it offers very good, practical advice for anyone but particularly those in their early twenties.

Cultural Literacy is the the foundation of the second book Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.

It's the Reader's Digest Condensed version of what you seek, but it could be a good springboard for you so that you're able to find things you might want to learn more about.

To add to this reading list:

When I say No I feel Guilty

And

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Very generally, both books helped me understand that I was looking to others for approval, rather than finding approval from myself. I think it would be worth reading for any man, but especially what OP is describing.

this book was kinda like the engineering bible when I was in school. Explains things in an easy to understand manner:

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1426750522&sr=8-2&keywords=the+art+of+electronics

Some great books for learning Scheme are The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman.

The course teacher also has a companion book: A Mind for Numbers that is a great reference too.

Even if you aren't a fan of King's work, this is the single best place to start for anyone who fancies writing. See here.

If you already have the piano this is the book my piano class used.
http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All---One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic/dp/0882848186/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458688360&sr=1-1&keywords=learning+piano

Go through it begining to end, practice each song until you have it down and be sure to look up musical examples of concepts such a syncopated notes.

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Pawn shops will have plenty of cheap keyboards that will be good enough. A proper piano has 88 keys, but in the beginning a 64 key keyboard will work just fine.

Read this from start to finish: Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Also read encyclopedias in your free time. I have done this for a while and have found it to be enjoyable. Retention is still a problem.

I've looked around online and never found anything satisfying. Just decided to go old school and bought You Can Draw in 30 Days (a physical book!) and it's been awesome so far. Can't recommend it enough.

If you want a book to learn from, the Alfred All-In-One Course is good for adults.

Buy the Hanon book, it's a really good exercise/method book for 6 dollars. Every pianist has a copy of this.

No More Mister Nice Guy -Beta to Alpha

If you've got the time consider reading The Intelligent Investor.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060555661/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0060155477&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1J2N6M1MFGN3E805691P

I highly recommend Ramit Sethi's book I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

I highly recommend reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386

Acquire knowledge of different cognitive biases, logical fallacies, and philosophies.

Read up on factoids. Read The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Read through the answers to this question.

Check out Mentat, a site devoted to all sorts of cognitive skills.

I was interested in the same topic, I purchased this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262640686

I haven't gone all the way through it yet, but it helps you learn where assembly code came from, and low loevel interactivty between hardware and software.

The Game suggests putting on a smile before you enter a crowded room. You never know who's watching the door.

Before you invest, your finances need to be in order. For that reason, I recommend I Will Teach You To Be Rich. It covers the basics and is very sound advice.

If you have the time check out the book 'Thank You for Arguing':
http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Arguing-Aristotle-Persuasion/dp/0307341445/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321562253&sr=8-1

Not any online guide, but I bet you won't be disappointed.

http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Draw-30-Days/dp/0738212415

Read "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by, Robert A. Glover.

This book used to be/still is what people swear by.

This should NOT be the first book you buy and open, it is too intense to start with. However, it should be something you look at in your quest to understand it all.

> http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386[1]


http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386

FTFY

start by reading Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.

Try this book

http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Chef-Learning-Anything/dp/0547884591

It uses cooking as the main example when teaching you to learn anything quickly.

I'd also suggest Make it stick!

Read

• http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Business-Essentials/dp/006124189X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348295985&sr=1-2&keywords=persuasion
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Dianetics-Modern-Science-Mental-English/dp/140314446X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348296015&sr=1-1&keywords=dianetics
  

Check this book: http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Draw-30-Days/dp/0738212415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371607474&sr=8-1&keywords=you+can+draw+in+30+days
Try to draw for a least half an hour everyday

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