Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?

Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by fiskeben on Monday March 12, 2018 @01:19PM (#16569661)

The War of Art - about overcoming that nagging resistance to getting stuff done that we all feel.

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by tombrm on Monday March 12, 2018 @02:43PM (#16570351)

Have you seen this video? It is basically the war of art book illustrated with movie scenes: https://youtu.be/1lTcgSzf0AQ

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by turingcompeteme on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:53PM (#16577547)

Wow, that video was much better than the book in my opinion. The book spends chapters and chapters repeating the exact same thing over and over. And then the last third of the book is about divine inspiration and other things I just couldn't get into.

I always thought the book would have been better as a blog post or two, but the video format was perfect. It presented the ideas and gave advice on how to achieve them. I took a lot more from that video than I did from the book.

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