I'm doing some personal research on this topic - and there are three sources I trust heavily.<p>Quora, HN and Reddit.<p>I scraped Quora and made a spreadsheet of their recommendations from the most popular threads about life changing and mind expanding and so on books [1].<p>[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnfzjyWu4aYwdGh2amdDTkJzUlktdVlLVXNoZTVDX2c&output=html<p>Now I'd like to ask HN the same question.
It's been asked quite a few times already :) (I remember answering a few times before) and some links on the subject too.<p>For example:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228683" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228683</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700602" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700602</a><p>One of my own recommendations is Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...</a><p>It's also Paul Graham's recommendation: he recommends it on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas[1]"
If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [1] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself."
[1] <a href="http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n</a>