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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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Dustin Moskovitz American internet entrepreneur
I’m an Audible guy, so I never give a physical book to people, but something that’s come up a lot lately is this book, The Road Back to You , which is about the Enneagram. And I’ll just say up front, it’s written by a former preacher, and he’s got some religious tones. And that doesn’t really appeal to me, but I just found the descriptions of the Enneagram types to be just really spot on, especially the one of my type, type five. And yeah, it felt like reading my diary. And I’ve recommended it to a few other people who had similar experiences. And I had read a bunch about Enneagram before, and it was like, “Oh, this sort of fits. It sort of doesn’t.” And then, this one really spoke to me,
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 10 August 2023 source ↗

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