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Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?

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  1. The power of the mind 1 mention

    Josef Morphy

    The power of the mind — Josef Morphy: 1 mentions, rank 1
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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 13 Arts and letters 28 Politics and public life 9 Business and finance 19 Technology 8 Sport 4
Read by age Any age Before thirty 3 In their thirties 7 In their forties 10 In their fifties 21 In their sixties 14 Seventy and beyond 8
Reid Hoffman Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
Obvious I give out my own books fairly often: The Startup View , The Alliance . Recently I’ve been giving out another book of friend of mine, Joshua Cooper Ramos, The Seventh Sense .
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 June 2018 source ↗
Tony Fadell Engineer and designer; led the iPod and iPhone teams at Apple, founder of Nest Labs
I regularly gift the book called In Praise of Shadows .
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 27 January 2020 source ↗

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