Renaissance Man's Reading List - 5 Books You Must Read 

Feels like a really energetic TED talk

Just came across your channel randomly last night. Really nice to hear someone put into words some thoughts I've been having regarding learning, self-study, and increasing the desire to read. Love it and I'm planning on watching quite a few more of your videos.

Sapiens is one of my favorite books!

As an 18-year-old teenager in 1971, I read two books by Dale Carnegie. They were 'How To Stop Worrying And Start Living' and 'How To Win Friends and Influence People' both extremely helpful in negotiating life as was Norman Vincent Peale's book The Power of Positive Thinking. I’ve read these books several times over the years. All of these books were written in the early to mid C20 and are timeless classics. NVP seems to be a controversial character but his book is worth a read. Have been meaning to read Marcus Aurelius must get a copy. Thankyou R.C. for the list of books and will look into them to find out what they are about. Kind Regards

Great video man, you have a great charisma, you're going to get very far with this channel

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of my favorite books ever

Instead of 7 Habits, I'd recommend The Slight Edge. I've read quite a few self-improvement books and that was definitely in my top 3. It's a really simple philosophy, easy to incorporate and creates huge changes!

Hey your video made me pickup my copy of "Meditations" to actually finish it, and I just ordered 7 Habits of Hghly Effective People. Deep Work will be next on the list. Thanks a lot for the great video man! Hope your channel keeps growing.

Wow I’ve read two of the books, and like your tastes. I will certainly have to pick up the others.

If you liked Meditations, then read the sayings of Epictetus. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinkerton The Art of Logic - Eugenia Cheng Influence - Robert Cialdini Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan Sapiens is good.

Your voice is ✨perfect✨

What an amazing voice! 😰. Nice video.

This deserves so much more attention.

Sapiens is really good! I love the humor in it too.

Please, ad more videos with book recommendations.

I love your channel sooooooo much!

I’m laughing bc he’s so much more chill than this now. In just 3 years mind you.

Great list of books.

You make wanting to know genuinely interesting.

A life-transforming book I would recommend especially to all artists and creatives is "ART & FEAR" by David Bayles and Ted Orland. I was just starting community college back in 1995 when I found this slim volume in a used book shoppe, and it altered the course of my life. It goes into the factors that hold us back as artists, and ways to overcome them, in such an empowering way. The attrition rate for working artists is tragic; multiple times I have given my copy away to a fellow artist in crisis. I can trace my rewarding career as an artisan and illustrator back to this one powerful little tome.

Inspiring!

I need to check out these. I may check out the Newport book.

You have the voice of a radio host, bud. NPR should create a segment called R.C. Waldun's Book Corner. I know I would listen up. Keep going, man. Cheers.

Someday , I hope meet you, cause enjoy so much these videos

I first heard about the term 'homo universalis' during history class on the Renaissance when I was an early teen. Ever since I've been wanting to become this 'homo universalis', a person who understands everything in the universe. Now I'm a PhD student in Japan and I realise that I can't learn 'everything' and that is it an impossible feat. However, I subscribed myself to a life-long learning philosophy where I would try to learn things outside of my comfort zone and keep looking for new, even small, challenges that keep me on my toes. I really like your list. The Meditations lives permanently on my bedside table and I re-read parts of it now and again. Another great Stoic philosophy book is the Discourses by Epictetus.

Thanks!

0:53 hey isn't that Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche?

many thanks.

Thanks💓

I really didn't like Sapiens, it started off really well but I became less engaged with it in the latter chapters. Maybe thats just me though (?)

Influence by Robert B Cialdini The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond Do it.

I noticed and clicked a notification just before you mentioned how easily distracted we all are in the 21st Century.. *feels guilty* :P

Currently reading deep work and came across this

Recently I have finished one book naned Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak. Now I'm reading Politics, Gender and Islamic past. I was searching some book on History of civilization. Then somehow your video popped up. I'm going to read all of these books. Thank you.

Can you make your own must read novels list

Awww... He is such a baby here

You should read 'Why we sleep' by Dr Mathew Walker. Super interesting.

The five books are: the demon haunted world, by Carl Sagan. Just this. 5 times. Per year.

Here's my Meditations right at my side, so the video started off well.

OMG I love your voice haha

Re Marcus Aurelius, at our disposal, not at our disposition.

I want to help you grow this channel. Let me know how I can help. Also, do you know what book the idea of “ego is the enemy” originally came from?

Not even close: The Republic - Plato; Nicomachean Ethics By Aristotle ; Essais by Montaigne; Paradise Lost by Milton; Ulysses by Joyce - if you read these five then you will, via Modus Ponens, have read the world

Ok, in the whole scheme of things two years isn’t terribly late. But I am here - Sept 4-2020 - and I and have bought ALL of these - however, I did already have Sapiens.

Someone once told me read 100 books to forget 100 books. some one else told me read 100 books to remeber 1 book. It looks inpresive to read 100 books a year on paper but after that much reading, how much of that reading do you remember, how much of that reading has stuck with you, and how much did it blur togther. Reading 10 books a year is dosnt look inpressive on paper but i have retaned more from the 10 books

Deep work is boring, another one of those 2 page ideas bloated to 250 pages to fit the self help/pop psych genre

D: I haven't finished Godel Eschur Bach

Whenever someone says Sapiens is long. I just question my entire reading history. That book felt like 10 minutes of pure joy.

I have heard in numerous places anthropologists cringe at the book sapiens. They say it has some truth in it but is mostly fiction.

Kinda late, but if you read this, what's the book at 0:54?

wow you changed a lot

Here are some of the GREATEST books ever written 1) The richest man in Babylon. 2) Can't hurt me. 3) One thing.

Your channel must be protected at all costs

Okay, you guys get this for free b/c I like you. But I'll give you the top 5 most important books to read before you die. Now, I have it on good authority (it is not my list goddammit, I'm just the fucking messenger) that this is the end-all and be-all of Top 5 most important books in the world lists. The paper list itself actually contained 100 books, but that was lost in a fire. Luckily, I committed all 100 titles to memory. Behold "The Top 5 of the most important 100 books ever written: 1. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare 2. The Bible (KJV) 3. Don Quixote 4.The Illiad 5. The Odyssey

It's actually "Cal" Newport, not "Carl."

SAPIENS is a must read for everyone.

What's your intagram? And facebook ?

“So to speak” me: immediately thinks of Slavoj Zizek

You honestly read those books?

Guess what book put me on this journey? A doctrine of the bible.

All well and good, but your list is incomplete if it omits this classic: www.amazon.com/Swingers-Danger-Drew-Palmer/dp/B00J89MBQ0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=swingers+in+danger&qid=1587938481&s=books&sr=1-1

The bible with a focus on truly understanding what it means from Christian sources.

You're being quite corny in this video😂

Anyone have a Renaissance Women? :) not SJW please

Dude, work on your malapropisms. It's "at our disposal" not "at our disposition." Disposition means something akin to "mood" or "character." Disposal, in the context of what you are talking about, means what is available to be used. Also, it's "incomprehensible" not "incomprehensive." The first means "not capable of being understood" the second is not a real word, though "comprehensive" means "all encompassing." Also, "Sapiens" is a garbage book. Other than that, good video.

Shit recommendations