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Jun 16, 2015 · 1. 1984, by George Orwell. What it's about: One man's desperate struggle against an all-pervasive state that is committed to controlling people's thoughts as well as their behaviors. Fun factoid:...
Nov 2, 2010 · (Updated 2024) The most up to date and comprehensive list of 30 verified book recommendations from Steve Jobs. Includes quotes and sources.
- Autobiography of A Yogiby Paramahansa Yogananda
- Be Here Nowby Baba Ram Dass
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mindby Shunryu Suzuki
- The Lazy Man’S Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas
- The Way of The White Cloudsby Lama Anagarika Govinda
- Cosmic Consciousnessby Richard Maurice Burke
- Cutting Through Spiritual Materialismby Chögyam Trungpa
- Diet For A Small Planetby Frances Moore Lappe
- Mucusless Diet Healing Systemby Arnold Ehret
- Only The Paranoid Surviveby Andrew S. Grove
Autobiographyplayed such a huge role in Steve Jobs’ life that he arranged to gift a copy to everyone who attended his memorial service. Yogananda was responsible for introducing many westerners to Hindu spirituality, meditation, and yoga, famously including Beatle George Harrison. Jobs read Yoganda’s work for the first time as a teenager, and Autob...
Jobs’ enthusiasm for Eastern spirituality was a defining aspect of his worldview, and Be Here Nowis another seminal text that helped to popularize yoga and meditation in the West. Ram Dass, an American-born academic who had a spiritual awakening after experimenting with LSD, inspired Jobs to visit India– and try LSD himself.
For those interested in the basics of Zen and how to integrate Buddhist practice into daily life, Suzuki’s book is an ideal starting point. Both a deep investigation of Zen philosophy and a clear guide to the practical aspects of meditation, this book is frequently recommended as the first to read on the subject.
A bit lighter than some of the other spiritual guides on the list, this “underground classic” is built around everyday steps a person can take to live a more conscious and joyful life. The author, a noted philosopher and self-proclaimed “lazy man” who hung around San Francisco in the 1960s emphasizes that spiritual development doesn’t have to be th...
Part spiritual guide and part travelogue, The Way of the White Clouds recount the author’s travels through Tibet before the Chinese invasion when pilgrimage to the country became largely impossible. Govinda was a German man who converted to Buddhism when few Westerners were making this journey, and the poetic writing and personal photographs that f...
‘Cosmic Consciousness’ was a term coined by Canadian psychologist Richard Burke to describe a mystical state he attributed to the likes of Buddha, Jesus, and the poet Walt Whitman. Though written before Eastern spirituality was popularized in the west, Burke’s ideas share many underlying themes with the Hindu and Buddhist practices that had a huge ...
Another installment in Jobs’s vast spiritual library, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism warns seekers against the pitfalls of ego in the search for enlightenment. Trungpa, a meditation master, advises that spirituality is not a process of “self-improvement” but rather of abandonment of the self.
As Jobs’s spirituality was a large part of his personal legend, so too were his notoriously strict eating habitsand his enthusiasm for extreme fasts. A lot of this started when he read Lappe’s work in college. One of the first widely successful books to advocate for vegetarianism, Jobs credits Diet for a Small Planetwith inspiring him to fully swea...
This is another early text on the plant-based lifestyle, but with a slightly more graphic premise: mucus-causing foods are the source of most illnesses, and by eliminating them, we can heal the body. Prof Ehret is sometimes referred to as the “father of naturopathy,’ and this book (which also advocates intermittent fasting)is seen as having paved t...
Though a lot of Jobs’s reading was focused on lifestyle, business strategy was of course essential to his thinking. Only the Paranoid Surviveis former Intel CEO Grove’s guide to strategic decision making and, more broadly, the business of leading a tech company – making this a must-read for contemporary entrepreneurs and business people.
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- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.
- Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret.
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass.
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. In this classic bestseller – one of the most influential business books of all time – innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right – yet still lose market leadership.
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it.
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass. Just ten years prior to writing this book, the author was known as Professor Richard Alpert. He held appointments in four departments at Harvard University.
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most?
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