What I Just Read

Two pamphlet-length works here: the first,  Speculation as a Fine Art, is a foundational old-school text for investors, cited repeatedly in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator . The second, Thoughts on Life , contains short chapters of quotes and sayings in the style of Baltasar Gracian or Epictetus (see The Golden Sayings of Epictetus , a wonderful book, and it's free and in the public domain.). Recommend ingesting the first and skimming the second. As with most books of sayings, there's gold in there if you dig for it, and in the notes section below I copy-pasted some of the quotes that grabbed me. Maybe you can even skip skimming Thoughts on Life and instead skim my notes! [A quick  affiliate link to readers to the book here . You can support my work here by buying all your Amazon products via any affiliate link from this site, or my sister site  Casual Kitchen . Thank you!] As for Speculation as a Fine Art : it talks through some blunt ideas, some of which inves...

This is a blatantly repetitive and poorly-organized book, and yet it's still highly useful: filled with good tactics and reminders to observe and control your thinking--and more importantly, to be attentive to the implications of your thinking. Thoughts are things! How you think and the beliefs you hold play an enormous role in your reality. And so, despite its flaws, I think The Power of Your Subconscious Mind is still worthwhile. Think of it as a book-length practice of autosuggestion, or even a sort of extended mantra. The book's repetitiveness then becomes a benefit: it helps you practice and build good mental habits, it gives you plenty of examples of affirmations and mental scripts to apply to various life situations, and so on. A minor warning: if you consider NLP , autosuggestion or visualization and affirmation techniques to be useless woo-woo silliness, do not read this book. It's not for you. [A quick  affiliate link to readers to the book here . You ca...