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# Recommended books

## Self-discovery 

### Journey, developing your meaning-making compass

1. [Strangest Secret](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBHR_CD56M\&t=3s), Earl Nightingale
2. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
3. Start with Why, Simon Sinek
4. Ikigai

### **Framework**

1. *12 Rules for Life,* Jordan Peterson

#### Spiritual

1. *The New Earth*, Eckhart Tolle
2. *The Power of Now*, Eckhart Tolle

### Ubermansch / Transcendence

* Thus Spoke Zarathustra 
* Brave New World, Huxley
* 1984, Orwell
* Donnie Darko
* Ecology of the Mind, Bateson
* Stealing Fire

## Development

### Making the best out of your life

* Defining Decade, Meg Jay
* **On making Meaningful Choices**
  * [Philosophy of Mr Nobody — How to make meaningful choices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANUunK6kiqU)
  * [Ruth Chang — How to make Hard Choices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GQZuzIdeQQ)
  * Tatami Galaxy - how different decisions do not affect your reality
* *Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age*, Marty Neumeier

### **Mindset**

1. James Clear
2. Give and Take, Adam Grant
3. *Thus spoke Zarathustra*, Nietzche

### Unlearning

1. Midnight Gospel, Episode 5, Annihilation of Joy
2. Think Again, Adam Grant

### Element

* Ken Robinson

#### **Media references**

* [Kakashi Explains Chakra Natures, Naruto Starts Rasenshuriken Training, Naruto Shippuden ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROoCV-aQ_sw)
* Avatar unusual bending styles 
* [Water Divination Test in Hunter x Hunter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUuLUjBlqg)
* [Sorting Hat in Harry Potter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZFWA2KDbw)

## Creative

### Getting better

* Context
  * Expression
    * [Three Steps to Becoming a Better Artist Immediately](https://youtu.be/amlwcI8dh_g), ArenaNet's Horia Dociu

### Rose-colored + Mindset

* *On Making Money vs Quality Work*, Saul Bass
* *On the creative process*, Ira Glass
* *Art & Fear*, David Bayles

### Rethinking

* [Why working harder is not getting you to closer to your goal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtDiO5lH-kE\&list=PL1TQbviAEvf0E3SJD1MF1ybptvOcadXaG\&index=7), Chris Do

### **Design thinking and seeing** 

* *Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers*, Marcos Mateu-Mestre
* *Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers*, Marcos Mateu-Mestre
* Ge Wang, Artful Design
* Start with Why

### Science

* *Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures*, Eric Kandel
* *Understanding Comics*, Scott McCloud
* [Intellectual montage](https://youtu.be/NtnTs90knro), Eisenstein

## Career

### Learning

* [Learning Houdini: You're Doing It Wrong and How to do it Right | Matt Estela | SIGGRAPH 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y22rYfJE64o\&t=2060s)
* *Framed Ink Vol.1 ,* Mateu Marcos

### **Positioning**

* [On Pitching yourself](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/jodi-glickman-on-pitching-yourself), Jodi Glickman
* [Should You Specialize or Be a Generalist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCPbPMRNnvk), Tim Ferriss

### Teamwork and culture

* Culture Code, Daniel Coyle

## Business

### Freelancing

* Freelance Manifesto, Joey Korenman 
* Company of One, Paul Jarvis 
* Win Without Pitching, Blair Enns 
* Ask, Ryan Levesque 

### Pricing

* *Implementing Value Pricing,* Ron Baker
* *Burn Your Portfolio*, Michael Janda 

### Marketing & Advertising

* *Storybranding*, Donald A. Miller
* [*Instagram Strategy for Business Growth*](https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/1102-instagram-strategy-for-business-growth), Dot Lung