Recommended books

Self-discovery

Journey, developing your meaning-making compass

1. Strangest Secret, 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

  • Ruth Chang — How to make Hard Choices

  • 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

• Avatar unusual bending styles

• Water Divination Test in Hunter x Hunter

• Sorting Hat in Harry Potter

Creative

Getting better

• Context

  • Expression

    • Three Steps to Becoming a Better Artist Immediately, 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, 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, Eisenstein

Career

Learning

• Learning Houdini: You're Doing It Wrong and How to do it Right | Matt Estela | SIGGRAPH 2019

• Framed Ink Vol.1 , Mateu Marcos

Positioning

• On Pitching yourself, Jodi Glickman

• Should You Specialize or Be a Generalist?, 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, Dot Lung