Non-Investing book that changed the way you view investing?

Compiling Brandon Beylo’s tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing, linking and categorizing people’s favourite non-investing books they’ve read that completely changed the way they view investing.

Suggestions from Brandon Beylo’s tweet. What is one NON-Investing book you’ve read that completely changed the way you view investing?

Brandon Beylo @marketplunger1

What is one NON-Investing book you've read that completely changed the way you view investing? I'll start: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely Lesson: Consumers are WAY less rational than traditional economic theory would have you believe.

Business, Probability etc

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer

• A Course in Game Theory by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein

• Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Increasing Returns and the New World of Business by W. Brian Arthur

• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics Paperback by Richard H. Thaler

• The Great Rebalancing by Michael Pettis

Psychology, Behavioural, and Self Improvement

• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler

• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

• Sources of Power by Gary Klein

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Fiction

• JR by William Gaddis

• The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Science and Tech

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Misc

• Picking Winners: A Horseplayer’s Guide by Andrew Beyer

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

• Stray Reflections by Jawad Mian

• The Tao Jones Averages: A Guide to Whole-Brained Investing by Bennett W. Goodspeed

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