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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
Andrew Ng Co-founder of Coursera and of Google Brain; founder of DeepLearning.AI
Over the years, I have found a few resources for developing personal productivity that I love. My top picks include Getting Things Done by David Allen, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, and Learning How to Learn Barbara Oakley (I recommend the Coursera course). I'm tempted to add Tiny Habits to this list.
Recorded Ng's own newsletter, The Batch, DeepLearning.AI, 2020 source ↗

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