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Which book changed the way you think, and what did it change?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 8 Arts and letters 8 Politics and public life 14 Business and finance 2 Technology 3 Sport 1
Read by age Any age In their thirties 3 In their forties 2 In their fifties 4 In their sixties 7 Seventy and beyond 3
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
When I was 19, my boss in the circus – I worked in the circus for 10 years. I was, like, a ringleader, MC of a circus – and my boss at the circus really cared about me and she said, "I read this book called 'Awaken the Giant Within' by Tony Robbins.
Recorded Srinivas Rao, podcast transcript, Unmistakable Creative, 9 September 2015 source ↗
Jason Portnoy Investor; early finance executive at PayPal and Palantir
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. That book changed my life, blew my mind. If you’re going to read that book, take it slow in my opinion.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 16 June 2022 source ↗

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