(Part 3) Best products from r/IWantToLearn

Hi! It's great that you want to learn Latin yourself - I was in a similar position not long ago, and can share my experience. Firstly, it's not going to be very easy, but it will be a lot of fun - learning Latin will teach you a lot about linguistics, history, and even English.

It seems to be a consensus at /r/latin that Wheelock's, while being a good textbook, teaches to translate, not to read. It focuses on rote memorization of grammar. Lingua Latina, on the other hand, focuses on reading comprehension and is considered by /r/latin users to be a superior learning method. It's based on the natural method: it is written completely in Latin, beginning with very simple phrases which speaker of any European language can understand, and slowly progresses further. To give you an idea, its first sentence is "Rōma in Italiā est". You can understand it easily, and you've already learned 4 words!

While Lingua Latina is a great textbook, I would advise getting some supplements to augment your studying process. All of them can be bought on amazon, or acquired by other means if you wish to cut your costs. Excercitia Latina, which follow Lingua Latina chapter by chapter, will give you enough practice to get a firm grip on each chapter's material. I would recommend not just filling the gaps in, but writing whole exercises out in a separate notebook - making the mechanical memory help you memorize words and grammatical structures. Latine Disco and Neumann's companion are useful companions, which will help you understand grammar introduced in each chapter of Lingua Latina (you only need one of them).

Finally, memorizing words is necessary with any language, and Latin is no exception. Some students find Lingua Latina's method to be sufficient for spaced repetition of new words, but it wasn't enough for me. I used anki, a spaced repetition software based on flashcards, to study words. There is a Lingua Latina deck available for anki, divided into chapters: thus you can easily add words into your flashcard pool after completing every LL chapter.

I hope this helps! If you'll have any questions on the material, redditors on /r/latin are very nice and are always willing to help.
Good luck with your studies!

Valē, amīce!

Okay, couldn't find my box, but I managed to dreg up what I remember as far as books go.

This book is a good start for coin magic and sleight of hand in general. Be warned though, the coins you will need for this might be slightly hard to find (silver dollars, half dollars) but is worth it. For whatever reason people think that the bigger the coin, the harder it is to work magic with it. This is false. The bigger the easier and the better looking.

This book is a good start for card magic. Sometimes it is a bit hard to understand (as all books are) but this is pretty simple and will give you some good pointers.

This book is my all time favorite. More card magic, but more advanced than the previous one.

And lastly this book which gives some good tricks, teaches some good things. Much of it is based on props and stage magic, and much of it isn't. A good read.

And lastly some advice: if possible find someone who knows how and is already practiced. That makes it MUCH easier. And stick with it. Once you learn something you never unlearn it. I have not practiced in near 5 years and I can still pick up a deck of cards and mess with them. Learn a few versatile tricks and learn some flourishes. The tricks can fascinate, and the flourishes look pretty, but only when used together does it really blow people's minds.

Hey there! I'd like to consider myself a pretty experienced drummer, so hopefully I can be of some help to get you started.

If you aren't too familiar with reading music, I would highly recommend getting Syncopation for the Modern Drummer . It's a great starting book for reading music and familiarizing yourself with common snare & bass drum patterns that can be applied to the drum set.

If you want to learn more how to play the complete drum set, which I'm guessing you'd like to do, check out The Drumset Musician . It provides a basic intro to coordination and ability to use all your limbs separately. (One of my biggest struggles when starting out was forcing my hands and feet to not do the same thing at the same time on the drum set)

Other than those books, YouTube will definitely be your best friend, so don't be afraid to use it!

Best of luck to you, and I hope you end up enjoying the drums as much as I do!

Source: I play piano (3 years of lessons, 2 years self-taught) and have started picking up guitar (6mo self-taught)

Piano and violin can be rough to learn without a teacher. If you just want to play music, there are a lot of free resources available for guitar - justinguitar.com is fantastic. There is a subreddit for learning guitar which has a very helpful and supportive community.

Now, if you maintain that classical piano is really your thing, then I can certainly relate, but I will warn you that the available free video lessons are largely missing. There are tutorials on youtube around specific songs or specific topics, but nothing as structured as justin's site (at least that I've found).

My recommendation is to pick up a method book - I used Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson Book, Level One, which is about 10$ on Amazon - and work through it page by page. Join a forum like the adult beginner forum at pianoworld, where you can post videos of your progress and people can help you with the trickier items like posture and hand positions.

There is a subreddit for piano here as well, which is worth subscribing to as well.

If you're science/detail minded, The Food Lab is a great cookbook. You'd learn not just the basics, but also how small changes in ingredients, timing and technique have significant impacts on the end result. Lots of recipes and cookbooks just give you a series of steps to follow, and more often than not you'll be alright with just that. But having a book that details how different ingredients work by themselves and with each other is a huge help in getting started.

It's also important to note that cooking is combination of art & science (in contrast with baking, which can be very specific in its process...don't get too experimental with baking until you have more experience). A recipe may ask to cook for 20 minutes, but based on the heat you're applying it was already done in 18 minutes. Do you leave it in there longer just because the recipe said so? It's not always about following a specific set of steps, you have to be able to look at the process and identify the necessary changes to achieve the result you want. And that knowledge only comes through practice and experience.

So yeah, there may be some mishaps. I like to say, "eat your mistakes". Rarely is something so badly cooked that it's completely inedible. Every mistake is a lesson on what to improve upon, and there's always room to improve.

It sounds daunting at first, but it's like learning a new language or riding a bike. Eventually, the general knowledge from all the different recipes you cook compounds and you'll "just know" how the process is going without even looking at it. Have fun with it, it's a really useful skill.

Hi, I just graduated from Ringling for Computer Animation despite that fact there was lots and lots of drawing involved, storyboards, character designs, etc.

Tablet specific help: I tape paper to my tablet, so it actually feels like I'm drawing on paper also there should be felt tip nubs for your pen, if not you can buy them on the wacom site, it further makes it feel like you are drawing on paper.

By block it could be either lack of ability to draw what you see in your head. Which is a straight forward things to solve. Buy Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain Read it, do the all the exercises more then once if you feel up to it. Then apply those ideas to what you see in your head.

If you are like me and have a blank slate when it comes to drawing, it's still possible to be a good artist but it's much harder.... but still possible! The above book will also be very helpful but there's still the issue of "blanking out when you draw" That's where lots and lots of reference images come in. Body types, hair styles, face shapes, expressions, poses and so on. These will give you a good jump off point for whatever you want to draw. And eventually you'll build up a data base of images in your head and won't need to use reference as much.

Also, check out conceptart.org's forum, there's tons of amazing information on drawing and some amazing artist to gawk at.

Also also, I'm not sure if you can send private messages on reddit but if you can I'll be happy to take a look at some drawings of yours and help in any way I can.

I haven't read all of it and I'm sure it's probably a simplification of more nuanced ideas, but check out Josh Kaufman's The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything Fast. It seems to be about how to maximize certain skills and habits to create an ideal brain environment for processing new information. Other books that may relate to the goal you described include How We Learn, Make It Stick: The Science of Successfully Learning, or perhaps even something like Robert Greene's Mastery. There's even a Coursera course out called "Learning How to Learn" that probably delves into a lot of the ideas explored in the aforementioned books, and a guy named Cal Newport has a whole blog that investigates what study habits are actually useful and which are not.

Also, I don't think the idea should be to obtain knowledge as much as have a solid foundation in thinking critically and learning how to learn. Your original post implies that you seem to view learning as stuffing your brain full of (hopefully factual) ideas to produce something recognizable as "knowledge"; a better way to conceptualize this process is that you develop skills in learning, processing information, and thinking in general with the hopes that it will enable you to draw on a wider range of knowledge and ideas when they crop up. Hence why I suggested books that are about learning and information processing; if you can end up making learning, studying, and reflecting a habit that you naturally come to do, perhaps you can begin a fuller mental life in general instead of simply becoming a walking encyclopedia.

The best route is to take up a course on Logic.

Study introductory predicate logic. Break statements into predicates - identify their antecedent and consequent. Identify the differences between a predicate's negation, inverse, converse, and contrapositive; more importantly, how they can be used to derive logical Truth. Familiarize yourself with Gödel's completeness theorem.

Next, learn to identify a fallacy; study up on logical fallacies.

Cognitive Biases are the next most important step. Being aware of your own cognitive biases will help you identify when your analyses are being skewed.

Study everything about everything. More information about your domain of concern will granter you further insight for analysis.

Lastly, take care of yourself. Get lots of sleep, eat healthy, and exercise; your judgement will be impaired if you don't.


Some books to help:

• Aristotle's Organon: Amalgamation of Aristotle's work on logic and reason. The starting point for most Logisticians.
  
• Critique of Pure Reason: Kant's works on logic and reason are pretty much mandatory - but require careful study.
  
• Critique of Practical Reason: Another of Kant's works. Read this after the critique of pure reason.
  
• Science of Logic: Hegel's work is an extension of Kant and Aristotle - also mandatory.
  
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Hume's works are a much easier read, but aren't as explicitly stated.
  
• Informal Logic a Pragmatic Approach: The best introductory logic book I've read.
  
• LANGUAGE, COGNITION, AND HUMAN NATURE: Steve Pinker has an unique perspective as a psychologist, linguist, and cog. scientist. This book highlights some of his more interesting insights.
  
• Thought and Language: Offers interesting insights into some innate biases in language and culture.
  
• A Rulebook For Arguments: This provides nice introductory reference material for fallacies and argumentation.
  
• Thank you for Arguing: Exploits fallacies and cognitive biases to pursuade an audience in an argument. Witty and easy to read.
  
  Edit: Added book suggestions.

Personally, this is the book I started with. Remember, I started in sixth grade, so of course the stories are censored. But it's a good primer of Greek myths, and it provides pictures which might make them a bit more memorable. In any case, I used that book for the majority of my Latin classes, so I got pretty well-versed in it. Later on, I was given other sources like Metamorphoses. Personally, I'm doubtful that poetry would be as easy to learn the myths from though: I got a lot more from plain-spoken prose than I did from my attempts to translate Latin poetry. The language is pretty and all, but it doesn't make the meaning as clear as other media might.

One other thing to consider is that certain stories didn't cross over as easily from Greek to Roman. Greek myths focus a lot more on the gods. Heroes are usually tragic heroes, and a lot of the stories are how those heroes end up getting screwed over by the gods for being stupid and trying to show up one of the gods. Roman myths start to give more credit to the heroes. They're less flawed, and at times the gods become less relevant. If you ask me, it's a cultural shift, since Rome was getting pretty confident in the power of mankind to master the world around them. So Ovid probably wouldn't cover as much of the myth as you'd like.

If you want to look into greek plays, they tend to portray some of the more classic stories pretty well. The structure may be a little weird at first. The style is usually something like this: there's a chorus of generic people, like soldiers or handmaidens or whatever. The hero struts in and explains the backstory up to this point (Agamemnon brags about the Trojan War, Oedipus explains that his kingdom is freaking out over something). The chorus, or else another character who's introduced, warns the protagonist to be careful and he naturally ignores them. Then tragic events unfold revealing that the protagonist has unknowingly ruined things for himself because he didn't leave well enough alone.

Most piano teachers will give you this book to start:

http://www.amazon.com/Alfreds-Basic-Adult-Piano-Course/dp/0882846167

I spent a long time learning as a child, went back to teachers a couple of times as an adult to get a refresher. If you can get through book 1 and book 2 in the series, you can pretty much play any pop song, and holiday type song and it allows you to start to gauge tracks at an intermediate level. From there it's how much you want to practice.

1 hour a day every day for 2 years will do more for your ability than any number of lessons. Teachers are a guide, it's all about your willingness to work at a new skill. If you can't do an hour, do 30 minutes, or even 15. But daily practice is the key. If you can't commit to 15 minutes a day, you should consider what else you're prioritizing if you really want to learn to play.

Also, the whole 10,000 hours to mastery is especially true for any kind of music. an hour a day means 30 years to mastery. 8 hours a day means 5 years. This is why musicians typically get really good in high school - by around 6th grade most people are crossing over from hobby to passion, and then start committing real time to their passion before real world problems get in the way ( like work, marriage, kids, etc.).

I don't know a lot about baking, but one of my friends does and she recommended the below book.

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393081087/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CkmZxb6RN2F39

Also, there is a great show called Good Eats I recommend for this. :)

You know what? I have an awful memory. My SO gets mad at me all the time because she'll tell me things and I'll inevitably forget them.

Which is to say that your memory isn't holding you back. It's the way you interact with information you want to retain that is the problem here, much like it was for me.

My background is that I wanted to "become smarter". Didn't know wtf that meant but I figured reading book was important to that goal so that's what I did. I've read some really awesome books and I can tell you that I don't remember a lot of them.

However, there is a book that you should absolutely read to learn to how correctly interact with the information you're trying to retain: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler. The book is an instruction manual on how to read books effectively, so as to learn from them and really really understand them.

Nowadays, I can't say that I remember specific parts of books that I read, but I absolutely can recall the general idea of a book (which is often helpful in conversation) and whereabouts in the book I read something so I can look it up again if I need to.

And this information can be applied to literally anything you read.

As far as learning in general, Make It Stick was alright. Would recommend, but it's pretty basic.

I was discussing with a friend about computers as I'm a Computer Engineer and learned all about the design and ground up construction from the principals of electronics up through logic gates operating systems and programming as a part of my college curriculum. He said he read through this book and it was very insigtful and was able to have a good proper discussion about it. I'm not sure if linking is allowed but here it is on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Computing-Systems-Principles/dp/0262640686

It's The Elements of Computing System Principles by Noam Nisan.

From there if you're further interested you'll know which topics might be more interesting to you and you'll be able to better investigate it. It's really a lot of material, and after 4 years of school, I know quite a bit about it, but people tend to specialize due to the sheer amount of material there is to learn about each specific topic. Lifetimes have been devoted to singular aspects of computer design so don't feel bad if some of it is overwhelming.

Whatever you do, don't turn your nose up at children's books.

I recommend D'Aulaires' Books of Norse Myths and Greek Myths immediately, they are amazing. My husband and I have been collecting books that meant a lot to us to share with our future family, these were among the first we sought out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0440406943?pc_redir=1407906902&robot_redir=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/159017125X/ref=pd_aw_sims_1?pi=SL500_SY115&simLd=1


Edit: You should also study Arthurian mythology. TH White's "The Once & Future King" is great, I'll try to find the beautiful book my husband wants to find from his childhood -- it was strangely comprehensive.

Source: We both studied classic literature, I'm a teacher. :)

Check out The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal -- Amazon Link -- 56 reviews averaging 5/5 stars (EDIT: I rounded, its 4.8/5 stars... still impressive). Pretty good right?

I'm honestly a pretty big skeptic when it comes to self-help books but she attacks the entire process scientifically and allows you to take the changes one step at a time. It's at the very least an interesting read. It should help you put together some steps to attack your lack of willpower though. You can't get anywhere without a plan and sometimes simply figuring out the steps to that plan is more difficult than executing it.

Just getting up and doing it doesn't help me everyday. It helps some days but not all. Check out the book or at least figure out your long term goals and the steps you'll need to take to achieve them and then live your day accordingly.

A philosophy I live by (started recently and if someone has said this before, I apologize for making it seem like my own... but if no one has - then it's mine :) haha) -- Live today as a better person than yesterday and I don't mean the person you were a week ago, or a year ago... I mean literally yesterday. Be better than that guy (or girl). If you fail at it today, it's okay. It'll make tomorrow that much easier but just continue to be better than yesterday.

K my two cents.

my favorite book was "Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer"

It's been probably 10+ years since I bought that book, and I'll still pull it off the shelf and play through pages.

Another really fun thing to do is to go through the Syncopation book and play the quarter note and eighth note pages with just your left hand and kick drum while playing jazz time with your right hand and hi hat

I used to work in sales. I was pretty good at it according to the awards I won.

The first step is know your product. You should be able to answer every question. You need to be confident that you can answer those questions. That's just a lot of reading.

For the soft skills I recommend reading both of these books.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Penetrating-Secret-Society-Artists/dp/0060554738

Edit: Formatting.

Here's some books and YouTube videos I've found helpful.

The Charisma Myth is easily my favorite.

Anything by Leil Lowndes, but particularly Goodbye to Shy and How to Talk to Anyone

Charisma on Command YouTube videos

The 5 Languages of Love is pretty much for marriages but it is helpful for developing empathy in general and relating to people better.

What aren't you confident about?

My suggestion would be to practice meeting new people regularly. Just get out there and start talking to people. Talk to anyone, men or women, young or old. Especially talk to beautiful women. Be friendly and kind and go out of your way to start conversations with total strangers. It'll probably be awkward at first, and you'll definitely get shut down a few times and it will hurt, but it will get better. You'll start to realize that getting turned down is the worse thing that could happen and it won't kill you, and the conversations that do go well will really boost your confidence and make you feel empowered. You might want to check out The Game by Neil Strauss.

Honestly, though a lot of the information wouldn't be applicable to you, I highly recommend the book On Writing Well by William Zinsser. It helped me with my writing (across all uses) tremendously. My novels, non-fiction articles, personal letters, and even my reddit comments have improved! Hope I helped a little bit :)

Hopefully OP is still checking in on this thread.

You'll need to start with the basics by registering for 100 level courses at your school whether or not you're already familiar with the subject, so Intro to Microecon, Macroecon and International Economics would be a start.

If you'd like to do some independent reading (which I personally recommend), here is the recommended reading list from /r/Economics. Their wiki lists books by increasing difficulty starting form the basics.

I'd also like to throw in some non textbooks I've read (and are reading) that helped me get an understanding of important fundamentals and obtain an idea of how economists think.
Both of these authors do a great job of grabbing the reader with their outlandish and interesting examples to explain various theories.

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt
Naked Economics - Charles Wheelan

I haven't read the new updated edition yet but the original "An Incomplete Education" was brilliant and very entertaining. http://www.amazon.ca/An-Incomplete-Education-Learned-Probably/dp/0345468902

Like /r/falafel_eater says, check into nand2tetris. Here is the companion book: The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.

This is really good stuff. The book uses Java, but you can use another language (I used python). It starts by implementing a nand gate, and using that to implement and, or, xor gates. These gates are used to implement simple chips, then simple cpus. Further abstractions include a simple machine language, assembler, and finally a compiler for a high level language and a simple graphics library that is used to implement a Tetris game. Hence, nand2tetris.

This stuff is awesome. You will have a great time!

Further things you can look at (sorry I am to lazy to provide links) are 'Bebop to the Boolean Boogie' and 'How Computers do Math', both by Clive Maxfield, and 'Code' by Charles Petzold.

How to DJ Right is probably the single greatest book I have ever read on the topic. It's cheap too, only about 10 USD. Almost all of my dj friends have a copy for reference. The book covers a lot, gear, set up, the basics, the generals and the master class of techniques as well as various other things. It's great. I can't recommend it enough.

I've had my copy for ages, and still regularly refer to it.

The Book Thank you for arguing is a good start.

But if you would like to focus more on clearly articulating your thoughts, rather than comparing your thoughts with others (i.e debate), I would suggest reading up on the following topics:

• Khan Academy: Focus on the "logic" lessons under the mathematics category.
  
• Understand the differences between converse, inverse, and contrapositive; Then, practice using them.
  
• Read up on Logical Fallacies.
  
• Study the differences between subjectivity and objectivity under as many contexts as possible.
  
• Practice swapping the context of a conversation in such a way that the previous dialogue is still consistent with the new, unrelated context.
  
• Keep posting on reddit and continue to facilitate a platform for rigorous intellectual discourse.

Admittedly I have only had one feature produced, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt, but IMHO the only two books you need are Ray Frensham's TY Screenwriting book and Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. In addition I would recommend reading all of the columns at wordplayer.com.

That's true I guess, I could just buy one from the same publishers/stores that colleges get them from, if I can actually find them.

Also, I think that /u/kavaler_d took care of that for me, mostly. According to the seller of Lungua Latina, they're the most popular Latin textbook for universities (although, I bet some others also claim that...).

If you’re willing to spend a little money, buy The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez Alt. It is amazing. It’s a beautiful book with detailed documentation of experimentation with various methods / times / ingredients.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393081087/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_.GhIAb1F6S6CG

Edit: misspelled dude’s name

Practice, practice, practice, practice. Getting good at maths is 90% equal to the practice you put in. People who seem "naturally" good at maths, most of the time, are just used to trying everything in their head and thus get more practice. Also, they may have done more in the past, and gotten used to using the smaller concepts they need to solve a bigger problem.

2 good books about learning: Waitzkin, The Art of Learning and Polya, How to Solve It.

Dr. Jordan Peterson wrote a pretty good template on it. Also if you have have time you could read On Writing Well by William Zinsser.

https://www.scribd.com/document/317511611/Template

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497275862&sr=8-1&keywords=On+writing+well

I'll be the second person to recommend the following book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386[1]

It has all you need to know. Read it slowly, surely, and follow the clear, practical advice.

My dad is an art professor, and he recommended this book to me when I asked him for a good book on drawing: http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Brain-Betty-Edwards/dp/0874775132/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321622952&sr=1-2 Get the one from 1989, he said the newest eddition is not as good. He uses these techniques in his drawing classes and gets amazing results.

Actually, this question is one of the major topics in Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life.

Long story short, there are some countries that will grant you citizenship if you buy a home there, or make an equivalent investment. You probably want someplace cheap and politically stable, where they can speak English, and where you won't have to renounce your US citizenship at the same time. There are a few options listed in the book, sorry to say I can't remember all their names.

The book Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning should be helpful to you.

I enjoyed reading Naked Economics. It talks about the big concepts in economics (mostly macro) in an intuitive way, and it's a pretty quick read, although it's lacking in math as a result.

I'm a former physicists The way I felt I got smarter over the years as an undergraduate and graduate student was by continuing to solve hard and harder math and physics problems. Throwing yourself at increasingly difficult problems forces you to think systematically (so that you aren't considering the same solution again and again) and creatively (bring in other concepts and apply them to new situations) and perhaps, most importantly, to not give up. I found myself just being able to solve technical problems in other areas faster. My brain naturally got faster just like how someone who continually runs a slightly greater distances or just a little bit faster everyday is going to just naturally develop the muscles to make that possible. Also having a repository of solved problems as reference helps you solve future problems.

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I found this book useful for problem solving:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Science/dp/069111966X

The best way I found so far is to do this guys lessons in order : https://www.youtube.com/user/Lypur

I supplement with
http://www.amazon.com/Alfreds-Basic-Adult-Piano-Course/dp/0882846167

I absolutely loved "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan. The book provides great real-world context for so many fundamental economics concepts.

EDIT: Whoops; someone already mentioned this text. Apologies for the repeat, but 100% co-sign this suggestion.

If you mean going off grid in the personal sense, you could check out the book Emergency by Neil Strauss. It's not perfect, but it has some unusual ideas and funny stories.

If you mean going off grid in the home sense, Check out Elon Musk's solar system or build an Earthship.

Check out ellusionist and theory 11.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mismag822

https://www.youtube.com/user/howtoDisturbReality

https://www.youtube.com/user/DecksAndContests

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486242587/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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Enjoy!

Check out https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnetism/dp/1591845947
For me, it was a pretty big influence. I think also for me generally it boiled down to think less feel more. Most interactions with people aren't an information exchange as much as an exchange of emotion. But that just helped me get more dialed in. If you're coming from a different starting point though, probably different results.

practice is most important. When looking at anatomy, don't just try and memorize what goes where, really think about the bones as the foundation, and how the muscles wraps around it, etc. Understanding > memorization. Also, I realize this book is fairly well known, if you aren't familiar, could change your life

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-DJ-Saved-Life/dp/0802146104

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How To DJ Right
https://www.amazon.com/How-DJ-Right-Science-Playing/dp/0802139957/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541779724&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+dj+right

I highly recommend reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386

"On Writing Well," by William Zinnser may help you out.

I was interested in the same topic, I purchased this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262640686

I haven't gone all the way through it yet, but it helps you learn where assembly code came from, and low loevel interactivty between hardware and software.

Marching or Concert Snare?

Either way, buy this book and work through it, varying the stickings and tempos. Also, learn these rudiments. The absolute best thing you could do is get a teacher.

As far as concert vs. marching. They are very similar, but concert snare is much more subtle. Concert snare utilizes a lot more buzz rolls whereas marching snare uses open rolls or diddles.

This is my go-to recommendation. It's a great book that focuses mainly on DJing, but also has a small section on remixes and production. It was written in 2003 so it's not up to date as far as software/equipment goes, but as far as mixing techniques it's still very relevant. I really think anyone who wants to get into DJing should spend the $10 and read that book.

The Game suggests putting on a smile before you enter a crowded room. You never know who's watching the door.

If you have the time check out the book 'Thank You for Arguing':
http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Arguing-Aristotle-Persuasion/dp/0307341445/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321562253&sr=8-1

Lingua latina per se illustrata.

Learn using the natural method.

Read. The book to start with is An Incomplete Education. Build from there, reading widely in many fields and using your reading to find new areas of inquiry. Be curious. Talk to smart people, follows the news and cultural criticism, read The Atlantic, The Economist, The New Yorker, and a dozen other magazines, read a few papers every day, etc etc. etc. Do this for a couple of decades and you'll have a start.

> http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386[1]


http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Matters/dp/1583334386

FTFY

Check out a book called "The Charisma Myth" for starters.

I'd also suggest Make it stick!