What strategy books influenced your worldview?

Machiavelli

This book changed my life. I used to always charge uphill to fight my enemies and I would consistently try to confront chariots on the open and flat field but this book finally set me straight. No more executing spies for me, now I give them money to turn double agent and set them free.

The Selfish Gene

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>>9025231
I-i don't understand.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

>>9025010
The Quran

>>9025010

Marcus Aurelius, to be sure.

>“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

After reading this, I started gobbling down a fat piece of opium every time I had a problem, just like good old Marcus, and my problem would disappear. Such an alpha male.

The Prince
Since I read it, I havent built a single fortress in any of my tenuously held Italian provinces, not only do I spent less money on Swiss Condottieri but I dont have to worry about them being used against me

>>9025252
It illustrates how different genotypes/phenotypes reach balance within nature. Or you could read the Tao Te Ching, if you like to be spoonfed.

>>9025349
I've read it. I'm confused about how it's changed your worldview; being that it's a modestly interesting pop-sci book by a militantly atheistic autist.

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>>9025274
kek'd pretty hard at that

>>9025375
I dug the concepts of people as gene vehicles and meme machines. I think that's also where I started developing a flexible perspective in respect to scaling ideas and systems along the axes of time and space.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman was pretty dope, too.

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Arms and Influence

>>9025267
>>9025267
>“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
what's Marcus Aurelius end game here? what did he mean by this?

>>9026730
You don't have to be stressed by anything external. You can simply stop worrying by choosing to.