你读过的最好的书是什么?为什么（三）

Harnaaz Sikand, B.A. Programme from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi (2024)

Harnaaz Sikand，德里大学圣斯蒂芬学院学士课程(2024年)

To tag any one book as the best book would be very unfair on my side. Books are storehouses of knowledge. The moment you open a book, you are bombarded with gallons and gallons of information, irrespective of the genre. However, there are so many books which inspired me to the core, like many other people.
The Alchemist: This book inspired me emotionally. I read it because it was pretty famous, but I never knew that it really would have such a big impact. I'm not being hyperbolic, but that book is fabulous even though it's simply written. It has a very simple story but it gives you a whole new perspective to life.

在我看来，把任何一本书列为最好的书都是非常不公平的。书籍是知识的宝库。当你打开一本书的那一刻，你就会被大量的信息轰炸，无论你读的是什么类型的书。然而，有那么多的书就像许多其他人一样启发了我。
《炼金术士》：这本书在情感上启发了我。我读它是因为它很有名，但我从未知道它真的会产生如此大的影响。我没有夸张，但那本书写得很简单，却很精彩。它有一个非常简单的故事，但它给你一个全新的视角来看待生活。

The White Tiger: This book is seriously a masterpiece. But I'm very sure I have different reasons. The white tiger, for me, revealed the basic mentality and psychological set up of a driver or say any random person on the street. It says a lot about a person who is observant and whose mind works in ways which we can't think of or as in most cases, we don't pay heed to. So the depiction of the mindset was outstanding.
Why I assassinated Gandhi: From the time I was a little child, adulation for Mahatma Gandhi floated in the air. However, this book gave me a chance to probably think about the shortcomings of Gandhiji. This book didn't really make me detest him since I was pre-warned , not to get anguished or radicalised or biased. Although, the book made me form a balanced opinion. It taught me that even celebrated figures aren't very right always and we shouldn't listen to one side of the story, we should also search for the other.

《白虎》：这本书真是一部杰作。但我很确定我有不同的原因。白虎，对我来说，揭示了一个司机或者说是街上的任何一个人的基本心态和心理设置。它讲述了一个善于观察的人，他的思维方式是我们想象不到的，或者在大多数情况下，我们不会注意到的。所以对心态的描述非常出色。
《我为什么刺杀了圣雄甘地》：从我很小的时候起，对圣雄甘地的崇拜就随风飘荡。然而，这本书给了我一个机会去思考甘地的缺点。这本书并没有真正让我讨厌他，因为我被预先警告过，不要变得痛苦、激进或有偏见。然而这本书让我形成了一个平衡的观点。它教会我，即使是著名的人物也不总是非常正确的，我们不应该听故事的一面，我们也应该寻找另一面。

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: I know, I know, the title is not too pleasant, maybe even odious to some, but this book is really life changing. It's written by a man who didn't have a life as that of a bed of roses. He did not have a very good life but he transformed it into a magnificent one! And the way he wrote the book it's truly appreciable and amazing. I strongly recommend it to people from all walks of life. The title might sound vulgar, also to some, but don't judge it. Trust me on this.
How to Memorise Anything: It's by Aditi Singhal. She's phenomenal. She tells you in the beginning, how she was a forgetful housewife and how she went through a metamorphosis to become a Guinness World Record Holder. She gives you great techniques to improve memory. Some of them might appear kiddish but they sure work. (Now I look forward to read her book 'How to Become a Human Calculator'. Since I'm a math-o-phobic, I really need to read it!!!) Honestly, Its a great great great book.

《不在乎的微妙艺术》：我知道，真的知道，这本书的标题不太讨人喜欢，甚至有些人觉得恶心，但这本书确实改变了生活。这是一个没有过着幸福美满的生活得人写的。他过得并不好，但他把它变成了一个美好的生活！他写这本书的方式真的很可观，令人惊叹。我强烈推荐给各行各业的人。这个标题可能听起来很粗俗，对一些人来说也是如此，但相信我，不要妄下定论。
《如何记忆》：作者：阿迪蒂·辛格。她是非凡的。她一开始就告诉你，她是一个健忘的家庭主妇，她是如何蜕变成为吉尼斯世界纪录保持者的。她给了你很多提高记忆力的技巧。其中一些可能看起来很幼稚，但它们确实有效。（现在我期待着读她的书《如何成为一个人类计算器》。因为我是一个数学恐惧症患者，我真的需要读它！）老实说，这是一本很棒的书。

Tarun Aggarwal
Rich Dad And Poor Dad by Robert Kyosaki
It is one of the best book i have ever read. It deals with the financial problem that we all face due to the lack of financial education. Sir has explain this with the help of a story. A story of two boys who are willing to fulfil their wishes which everyone desire in adolescence. One boy dad is poor so he rely on one basic principle. Accademic study leads to a wealthy and happy life. He think getting a higher paid job will solve all their problem. But other boy dad is rich and he has another perspective toward life. He thinks accadmeic knowledge is important but financial knowledge is also important to survive and led a wealthy life. He explain why many rich men unable to handle their money finally get corroded. People think getting a high value job will solve their bill problems but one must learn how to spend money. Everyone know how to earn money but very few of them knows how to spend that money so that they wont trap in a Rat race. He explain difference between assets and liabilities. He expain all this facts in a realistic way to the kids. This book is meant for everyone.

《富爸爸和穷爸爸》作者：Robert Kyosaki
这是我读过的最好的书之一。它处理了我们由于缺乏金融教育都面临的财务问题。先生用一个故事解释了这一点。这是一个关于两个男孩的故事，他们愿意在青春期实现每个人都渴望的愿望。一个男孩的父亲很穷，所以他依靠一个基本原则。学院式学习会带来富裕和幸福的生活。他认为找到一份薪水更高的工作可以解决他们所有的问题。但另一个男孩爸爸很有钱，他对生活有另一种看法。他认为会计知识很重要，但财务知识对生存和过上富裕生活也很重要。他解释了为什么许多富人不能管理他们的钱最终被腐蚀。人们认为找到一份高价值的工作可以解决他们的账单问题，但必须学会如何花钱。每个人都知道如何赚钱，但很少有人知道如何花这些钱，这样他们就不会陷入“你死我活的竞争”。他解释了资产和负债之间的区别。他以现实的方式向孩子们解释了所有这些事实，这本书是写给每个人的。

Jan penko, Freigeist at nitefall, Penthus in daylight, teary Heimat
The most complete and perfected account of rationality I have read, and I hold almost no hopes to ever read a better and a more systematic book, Ethics by Baruch Spinoza. If one is warmhearted man of faith, the book will drop you cold, but the faith will remain.
This quote bears enormous weight for anyone who has chewed his way through: "I do not presume to have discovered the best philosophy, but I know that I understand the true one." —It may seem arrogant and pompous, but, in truth, it is nothing of the sort and indeed it is hard to refute. The sheer order, rationality and systematicity is unparalleled. One just has to embrace the first few steps and the road will be clear there on, and the first steps are nothing but sensible, so shall your stride determine to where you will come. Also, the books is fairly linear and easily followed with concentration and diligent reading.
Clear your mind before, —if you have and idea of Abrahamic God, let it rest for the time being, or read some presocratics as in introduction to get a sense of what a word God means here, so the mind will formulate an opinion independent of your current view, and compare them afterwards.

巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎的《伦理学》是我读过的关于理性的最完整、最完善的论述，我几乎不指望能读到一本更好、更系统的书。如果一个人是有信仰的热心人，那本书会让你心寒，但信仰依然存在。
这句话对于任何一个历经磨难的人来说都具有巨大的分量：“我不认为自己发现了最好的哲学，但我知道我理解了真正的哲学。”这句话可能看起来傲慢自大但事实上，它不是那样的，而且确实很难反驳。其纯粹的秩序、合理性和系统性是无与伦比的。一个人只需要拥抱最初的几步，道路就会清晰，第一步是明智的，所以你的步伐将决定你将来到哪里。此外，书是相当线性的，很容易集中注意力和勤奋的去阅读它。
如果你对亚伯拉罕的上帝有一个想法，先把它放一放，或者读一些苏格拉底之前的引言，了解一下上帝这个词在这里的意思，这样你的头脑就会形成一个独立于你当前观点的观点，然后再把它们进行比较。

“God is immanent in the rational order of the universe; the rational order which is expressed through the natural world and in human thought. If something exists other than God, it is either within and dependent upon God, in which case it is merely a finite expression of God.” —As Spinoza puts it: "God is, and acts solely by the necessity of His own nature; He is the free cause of all things."
Read these lines, writ in 17. century. "…men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined."
He also sets out to refute Descartes, arguing the mind and the body are the same thing, two aspect but of a single reality, of single substance, as previous demonstrated as God. God is therefore the reality of extended things and thinking/mental things. And in this differs from strict materialism, insofar as it recognises both, one cannot be the other, but both are manifestation of the same, —God. It also means his rationality is in no competition with empiricism.

“上帝在宇宙的理性秩序中是内在的；理性:通过自然界和人类思想所表达的理性秩序。如果上帝以外的东西存在，它要么在上帝内部，要么依赖上帝，在这种情况下，它只是上帝的有限表达。——正如斯宾诺莎所说:“上帝存在，上帝的行为完全出于他自己本性的需要;他是万物的自由事业。“
读一下17世纪写的这些台词。“……人们相信自己是自由的，仅仅是因为他们意识到自己的行为，而没意识到这些行为决定的原因。”
他还开始反驳笛卡尔，认为精神和身体是同一事物，是同一现实的两个方面，是同一实体，就像之前论证的上帝一样。因此，上帝是扩展事物和思维/心理事物的真实。在这一点上，它不同于严格的唯物主义，因为它承认两者，一个不能成为另一个，但两者都是同一上帝的表现。这也意味着他的理性不能与经验主义竞争。

I still have my share of problems with it, like emotions, of which he says: "We feel strongly because we understand dimly." — I am not ready for reconciliation, not yet. And, ultimately: "So every man, according to his emotions, judges a thing to be good or bad, useful or useless."
If I were send to live in a cave, I would took two books with me, Ethics and Keats. One to disturb, to think and challenge, the other to feel and muse. I still have miles to go, and my acceptance with it is not final. —But it is the closest thing of which I can say I have come to something, and it is something.

我仍然有自己的问题，比如情绪，他说：“我们感觉很强烈，因为我们理解得很模糊。”-我还没有准备好和解，还没有。最后：“所以每个人都会根据自己的情绪来判断一件事是好是坏，是有用还是无用。”
如果我被送到山洞里，我会带上两本书，《伦理学》和《济慈》。一个用来干扰、思考和挑战，另一个用来感受和沉思。我还有很长的路要走，我的接受并不是最终的。但这是我所能说的最接近于某种东西的东西，而且它确实是某种东西。

The Books Space
I read a lot of novels be it fiction, non fiction, webnovels, philosophical, history. Here are my top picks:
× The Alchemist- My first pick. This book is simple but profound. To tell the truth I didn't understand it when I first read.
×The Rise and Fall of the Third Riech- A really great history book, chronicling 2nd World War and Nazi Germany written in a really interesting way.
×World War Z- Written by Max Brooks, one of the most realistic zombie documentary books ever written. Reading the accounts makes me feel I am transported to a zombie apocalypse!
×The Da Vinci Code- My first book ever read in the series. It redefined historical fiction. The story is a quasi historical thriller that one on the search of truth of the mythic Mary Magdaline.
×The Tale of Two Cities- The starting line “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair” says a lot about the magnificence of Charles Dickens.
The Lord of the Mysteries- One of the best Steampunk Victorian era fantasy ever written. Though it's a webnovel the quality of writing and the stroyline says it all.

我读了很多小说，无论是小说、非小说、网络小说、哲学、历史。以下是我的最佳选择：
《炼金术士》：我的第一个选择。这本书简单而深刻。说实话，我第一次读的时候读不明白。
《第三帝国的兴衰》：一本非常伟大的历史书，以非常有趣的方式记录了第二次世界大战和纳粹德国的情况。
《World War Z》：由马克斯·布鲁克斯（Max Brooks）撰写，是有史以来最真实的僵尸纪录片之一。阅读它们让我感觉自己被带到了僵尸世界末日！
《达芬奇密码》：我读过的这个系列的第一本书。它重新定义了历史小说。这个故事是一部准历史惊悚片，讲述了神话人物玛丽·马格达琳的真相。
《双城记》：开头的一句话“那是最好的时代，那是最坏的时代，这是智慧的时代，是愚蠢的时代，它是信仰的时代，也是怀疑的时代，这个是光明的季节，这个是黑暗的季节，这是希望的春天，这个是绝望的冬天”说明了查尔斯·狄更斯的伟大。
《神秘之王》有史以来最好的蒸汽朋克维多利亚时代幻想之一。虽然这是一本网络小说，但写作质量和故事情节都说明了这一切。

Prabhat Kumar Sahu, Machine Learning Engineer (2019-present)

普拉巴特·库马尔·萨胡，机器学习工程师(2019-至今)

Following 3 books:
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Here’s some quote from this book:
“Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.”
“Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”
“Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.”
“Our task today is to find singular ways to create the new things that will make the future not just different, but better—to go from 0 to 1… The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.”

以下3本书：
彼得·蒂尔的《从0到1》
以下是本书中的一些引用：
“商业中的每一刻都只有一次。下一个比尔·盖茨不会开发操作系统。下一个拉里·佩奇或谢尔盖·布林不会做搜索引擎。下一个马克·扎克伯格不会创建一个社交网络。如果你只是模仿这些人，你就不能从他们身上学到东西。”
“聪明的想法很少见，但勇气比天才更稀缺。”
“客户不会关心任何特定的技术，除非它以优越的方式解决了特定的问题。如果你不能垄断一个小市场的独特解决方案，你将陷入恶性竞争。”
“我们今天的任务是找到独特的方法来创造新事物，使未来不仅不同，而且更好地从0到1……关键的第一步是独立思考。只有重新看待我们的世界，对于最先看到它的古人来说，它既新鲜又奇怪，我们能否重新创造它，并为未来保存它?”。”

“Leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won’t help you find the global maximum.”
The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee’s one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would uate him only on that one thing.”
“What valuable company is nobody building? Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable. If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started.”
“You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of chance. You are not a lottery ticket.”
These are my fav ones.

“精益是一种方法论，而不是目标。对已经存在的东西进行微小的改变可能会导致你达到局部最大值，但这不会帮助你找到全局最大值。”
作为PayPal的经理，我做的最好的事情就是让公司的每个人都只负责做一件事。每个员工的负责的那件事都是独一无二的，每个人都知道我只会在这件事上评价他。”
“哪个有价值的公司不是由人创建的？每一个正确的答案都必然是一个秘密：一些重要而未知的事情，一些很难做到但可行的事情。如果世界上还有很多秘密，那么可能还有很多改变世界的公司尚未成立。”
“你不仅可以支配你自己的生活，还可以支配世界上一个小而重要的部分。它从拒绝不公正的机会暴政开始。你又不是彩票。”
这些是我最喜欢的。

2.Connect The Dots Quotes by Rashmi Bansal
Here’s some quotes from this book:
“You don't need a fancy degree to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head , your heart , your hands.”
“Some people discover who they are and what they want to do at 18, others discover the answer at 26. Still others never figure it out all their lives. We all germinate (or fail to) at different times.”
“I am a dreamer. I do a lot of things which people consider illogical but for me there is a very clear logic to what I do and why I do. I live by my convictions.” The”
“The truth is, there is a plan. A bigger plan. Every experience in your life – whether ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – has made you what you are.”
“Spread happiness among people. Ultimately, that’s the most valuable thing. Whatever amount of money you have, if you do not have peace, it is of no use.”
“asking the right question is more important than having the right answer.”

2.Rashmi Bansal的《连点成线》
以下是本书中的一些引用：
“你不需要一个华丽的学位来拥有伟大的梦想。这一切都在你的头脑、你的心和你的手上。”
“有些人在18岁时发现自己是谁，想做什么，另一些人在26岁时发现答案。还有一些人一辈子都不知道答案。我们都在不同的时间发芽（或失败）。”
“我是一个梦想家。我做了很多人们认为不合逻辑的事情，但对我来说，我做什么以及为什么要做都有一个非常清晰的逻辑，我以我的信念为生。”
“事实是，有一个计划。一个更大的计划。你生活中的每一次经历——无论是“好”还是“坏”——都让你成为了现在的你。”
“在人们之间传播快乐。归根结底，这才是最有价值的事情。无论你有多少钱，如果你不安宁，那都是没有用的。”
“提出正确的问题比得到正确的答案更重要。”

3.The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck” by Mark Manson:
I saw this book on the E-Com website Amazon once, and i was pretty impressed by the summery of this book. So i googled it and found a PDF.
Here’s some quotes from this book i would like to share
“Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation but you. Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you.”
“It’s growth that generates happiness, not a long list of arbitrary achievements.”
“Fuck positivity,” Manson says. “Let’s be honest; sometimes things are fucked up and we have to live with it.”
“Giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health. It causes you to become overly attached to the superficial and fake, to dedicate your life to chasing a mirage of happiness and satisfaction. The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important.”

3.马克·曼森的《不在乎的微妙艺术》：
我曾经在电子商务网站亚马逊上看过这本书，这本书的概要给我留下了深刻的印象。所以我在谷歌上搜索了一下，找到了一个PDF版本。
下面是我想分享的这本书的一些语录：
“除了你，没有人会对你的处境负责。你的不快乐可能要归咎于很多人，但除了你，没人会为你不快乐负责。”
“是成长带来幸福，而一长串任意的成就带不来幸福。”
“去他妈的积极，”曼森说。“老实说，有时候事情搞砸了，我们不得不忍受。”
“太多的事情对你的心理健康是有害的。它会让你过度依赖于表面的和虚假的东西，把你的一生奉献给追求幸福和满足的幻象。美好生活的关键不是他妈的多，而是他妈的少，只关心那些真实、即时和重要的东西就好。”

“Self-improvement is really about prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems, you get a better life.”
“Most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many fucks in situations where fucks do not deserve to be given.”
“No matter where you go, there’s a five-hundred-pound load of shit waiting for you. And that’s perfectly fine. The point isn’t to get away from the shit. THe point is to find the shit you enjoy dealing with.”
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.”
“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”
“If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have.”
“The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement. And that obsession with improvement stems from an unerring belief that they are, in fact, not that great at all. People who become great at something become great because they understand that they’re not already great – they are mediocre, they are average – and that they could be so much better.”

“自我改善实际上是优先考虑更好的价值观，选择更好的事情去做。因为当你做得更好的时候，你会遇到更好的问题。当你遇到更好的事情时，你会得到更好的生活。”
“我们中的大多数人在一生中都在挣扎，在不值得的情况下付出了太多的爱。”
“无论你去哪里，都有500磅重的狗屎在等着你。这很好。重点不是远离狗屎。重点是找到你喜欢处理的狗屎。”
“我们痛苦的原因很简单，痛苦在生物学上是有用的。它是大自然激发变化的首选媒介。”
“如果你困在一个问题上，不要坐在那里思考它；即使你不知道自己在做什么，只要开始解决它就好。解决它的简单行为最终会让正确的想法出现在你的脑海中。”
“如果有人在某方面比你更好，那么很可能是因为他在这方面比你经历更多的失败。”
“极少数能在某件事上真正出类拔萃的人，并不是因为他们相信自己是出类拔萃的。相反，他们变得惊人是因为他们痴迷于进步。这种对进步的痴迷源于一种正确的信念，即他们实际上根本没有那么伟大。在某件事上变得伟大的人之所以伟大，是因为他们明白自己还不够伟大——他们很平庸，很普通——他们可以做得更好。”

“Commitment makes decision-making easier and removes any fear of missing out; knowing that what you already have is good enough, why would you ever stress about chasing more, more, more again? Commitment allows you to focus intently on a few highly important goals and achieve a greater degree of success than you otherwise would.”
Travelling To Newer Places Changes Your Perception About Living A Certain Lifestyle
“Much as the pain of touching a hot stove teaches you not to touch it again, the sadness of being alone teaches you not to do the things that made you feel so alone again. Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.”
“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
So, that’s it. I suggest you to read the 3rd one, it’s really good.

“承诺让你更容易做决定，消除对错过的恐惧;知道你已经拥有的已经足够好了，为什么还要去追求更多、更多、更多呢?承诺可以让你专注于几个非常重要的目标，获得更大程度的成功。”
去新的地方旅行会改变你对某种生活方式的看法
“就像触摸热火炉的痛苦教会你不要再触摸它一样，独处的悲伤教会你不要做那些让你再次感到孤独的事情。情绪只是一种生物信号，旨在推动你朝着有益的方向前进。”
“你和你认识的所有人很快都会死。在这和那之间的短暂时间里，你能做的事是有限的。事实上，很少。如果你在没有有意识的思考或选择的情况下，对每件事和每一个人都不屑一顾——那么，你会被骂娘的。”
就这样。我建议你读第三本，它真的很好。