Nate's Guide to Self Help Books that will Actually Help you Help Yourself

[Nate North]

A lot of what people need to succeed in film overlaps with what they need to succeed in life, and this is just a collection of that. It's a huge amount of information, and I'm just leaving it here as a reference guide for people that wish to improve their foundational knowledge base, and gain a clearer perception of how logic and knowledge can empower you to make more effective decisions in film, and elsewhere. None of this is specific to filmmaking, but rather a series of compressed books on subjects such as habits, reasoning, psychology, etc.

I'd note here that none of this is my work, it's just a collection of work by nobel prize winners, bestselling authors, and the like, that collectively echoes my internal understanding of the world. I would say that these people have all done a better job than I do of giving a focused explanation of core concepts, so it makes sense to refer people to them.

There are no mood crystals, belief systems, or wish your way to success strategies here. These are the self help books that actually help you help yourself. Would you like to be a little smarter 5 hours from now? Take the time to understand the concepts in these videos, and there's a good chance that it will happen. Credit to this brilliant youtuber who compiled and redirected the videos I'm posting here. This guy is a genius.

 

[Dean Jay]

A lot of what people need to succeed in film overlaps with what they need to succeed in life, and this is just a collection of that. It's a huge amount of information, and I'm just leaving it here as a reference guide for people that wish to improve their foundational knowledge base, and gain a clearer perception of how logic and knowledge can empower you to make more effective decisions in film, and elsewhere. None of this is specific to filmmaking, but rather a series of compressed books on subjects such as habits, reasoning, psychology, etc.

I'd note here that none of this is my work, it's just a collection of work by nobel prize winners, bestselling authors, and the like, that collectively echoes my internal understanding of the world. I would say that these people have all done a better job than I do of giving a focused explanation of core concepts, so it makes sense to refer people to them.

There are no mood crystals, belief systems, or wish your way to success strategies here. These are the self help books that actually help you help yourself. Would you like to be a little smarter 5 hours from now? Take the time to understand the concepts in these videos, and there's a good chance that it will happen. Credit to this brilliant youtuber who compiled and redirected the videos I'm posting here. This guy is a genius.

What you think about the book: Thinking Fast, and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Why am I so intrigued to just follow the reviews to 'only' read a portion of the book instead of the whole book?

Thanks for Assessment!

 

[Nate North]

What you think about the book: Thinking Fast, and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Why am I so intrigued to just follow the reviews to 'only' read a portion of the book instead of the whole book?

Thanks for Assessment!

It's a brilliant book! Worth reading the whole thing.

 

[Dean Jay]

Focused/Diffused

 

[Spike]

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Guilt But Were Too Ashamed To Ask.

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex But Have Been Forced to Find Out.

-- Oolon Colluphid

(Douglas Adams RIP)

 

[Nate North]

I hope there is another Douglas Adams some day, but there will never be another Douglas Adams.

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

 

[Spike]

More from Oolon Collluphid, his great philosophical trilogy:

Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?.

And, like Douglas Adams, had had a fourth book in the trilogy: Well, That About Wraps It Up For God.

And yes, Douglas Adams.

 

[Nate North]

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

This is my from my number one self help trilogy, lol.

And in part, Save Point is based on the following quote from him (the main storyline, not the org)-

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe