I want some logic and math books that help me think more clearly and strategically in general, maybe some books about game theory. Post books that did that for you.
This is a waste of time. Stop trying to have a successful life, you're going to die. Prepare for death not life. (If you are mostly just trying to prepare for death, life becomes extremely easy. That's the big secret).
Euclid's elements. Then Graham Priest's Logic. Then le Bon's the crowd. Then Isaac Watts on Logic. Then grab a copy of Fanged Noumenon and read it - if FN comes across as anything but the ravings of a methed out lunatic, or even in the slightest profound, you did it wrong and have to read the entirety of the The Tempest in old dutch before starting again.
>>25364220I believe in eternal life.
>>25364212How to Solve ItThe Art of Problem Solving Volumes 1 and 2
>>25364220Please kill yourself.
>>25364212I read the basic: Dale Carnegie and your book "how to make friends and influence people in digital era", "The Art of War" from Sun Tzu and some catholic books. If you get it and understand the ideas and how create your own version of it for your life, you will have friends and more light your way. A good idea is use it to create the habit of read books too!
>>25364212just read realist IR books, thats all you need in life. plus books on game theory and fpa works too, my decision making improved significantly after reading about the poliheuristic theory and applying it to real life instead of just my analysis. But yeah, Thucydides would actually be a good start if you dont mind the 2 millenia gap. ''The strong do what they will while the weak must suffer what they must'' is the only strategy you need in life
>>25364212Socratic Logic by Peter KreeftHistorians' Fallacies by David Fischer - mentioned by Kreeft in Socratic Logic for learning about logical fallacies.
It's cool see anons helping an other anon. The life is good.
>>25364872This sounds great thanks
>>25365088That’s a tradcath meme dude, read this instead and do the exercises in them >>25364457
>>25365106How to Solve It sounds good but the other too look like advanced math.
>>25364212Read old war strategy books like Caesar, von Clausewitz, etc
>>25364220>billions must prepare
Here u go papi
>>25365319Yup stupidass answer
>>25364212>logic and math books that help me think more clearly and strategically in generalA completely retarded approach and expectations, as expected of frogniggers.>>25364220Denounce vishnu.
>>25365937Not him, but I denounce vishnu and hindu rape rats And the tanakh. Just on general principle, you understand.And the quran, even if I like the idea of people biting their hands in grief or the random letters of arabic scattered in it where someone had clearly just copied a palimpset or whatever.
>>25365304>other too look like advanced math.The two AoPS books don’t go past precalculus. They are hard but I wouldn’t call them advanced math
>>25364212For me it was not one specific book, but happened naturally over time when consistently reading good books, non-fiction and fiction alike
>>25364212Socratic Logic - Kreeft
>>25364212The people posting on lit do not have those skillsYou should unironically try strategy video games and hard mathematicsIn the branch of mathematics, I would recommend: Winning ways for your mathematical plays
>>25364212Spinoza’s Ethics. Don’t worry about game theory it only works within closed systems where all potentials are known
I'm a tourist from /sci/. In my own experience with physics and math, it's don't transfer well to my own daily life. Even to do mental arithmetic I needed specific training. And that's the way. You have to target what skill you want and then work it. Imagine specific situation where you want to be like a cool headed logician. Maybe write some hypothetical dialogue and work it until it's enough rational for you. When you are in the process of working your rational responses in the imaginary situation, you will know what you need to know or being capable to do. If you want to read critically text published in media, do the same exercise first reading the piece then looking how to understand it. Of course you need some knowledge before critically assess a lecture. Any general level textbook in the subject will be fine. If you want to read some Quantum mechanics issue you don't need to work a entire treatise on Quantum mechanics, some intro to physics for science students is enough.
Varufakis' book on Game Theory
>>25364212Tiled notebook and a penLearn how to count numbers and do arithmeticsWork at it
>>25364212>think more clearly
>>25367217Thanks for the effortpost. I recommend you study some English grammar along with or otherwise some classical English literature
>>25367490>Varufakislike the greek ex politican?
>>25364220Pathetic.>>25364212If you want to think better you have to frame your mind better actively. Far transfer shows learning Latin or chess or geometry doesn't give you general wisdom, it just makes you better at chess-shaped problems etc etc.
>>25369585>>25364212To expand on this, >>25366117 has the right approach. Building the discipline to do hard things is as close as you can get to actual wisdom, and while reading about math can act as that, there isn't much inherent to geometry or calculus that intrinsically makes you better at life more so than any other thing, contrary to the common thought. This is essentially the opposite of the /lit/ consensus, but most cognitive research is harsh to the thought of learning Latin to be wise, and I suggest you actually look into why instead of taking my word for it, because there's a century of research into the topic with various shifting concepts.So what actually makes you wise? You probably have to define what wise is to you in your own life first. Doing hard things itself can help, just by making your brain do the hard work and building an appreciation for difficulty. But the important thing to take away is that you shouldn't expect to read a book on critical thinking and become enlightened from it. It's largely an active process you have to mold rather than letting it passively do "work". Think of it like wrestling with a book while reading it versus passively reading without any thought put into it.Strategy games are an interesting point like >>25366345 pointed out. RTS games are shown to help with cognitive tasks, multitasking, and performance under stress, which are all things someone would think of as "wisdom" in the sense that it helps in daily life. But the transfer isn't 100% and it risks falling into the "chess-shaped task" problem againI could go on for hours, but the final answer is to first find out what you mean by clear and strategic thought, because holding all of cognition as a single word means you won't ever get to actually improving all of it. When it comes to this topic, specifics matter
>>25368648OK but I have one more thing to say. The name of this board is a big lie. It's not /literature/ a place for people all over the world to discuss literature writing in any language but a much more parochial version. It's /english/ a place where student of some english degree discuss literature which may be written in another language. of course, in /sci/ we are a better people. we discuss science besides arbitrary constraints like language, nationality, race and the other ghosts /english/ thoroughly believe. After all in 500 years english will be a dead language while Maxwell's equations will be still studied
>>25369599What I mean is simply to be more successful get better grades plan my life better know how to manage my finances etc.
take a course a CMU
>>25364212Math books won't help you at all when it comes to strategic thinking (whatever you mean by that). Learning logic would be good for clarity of thought and you it might be good to learn basic proof tehniques. For logic that is math flavoured Tarski's Introduction to logic (https://alexandrianlibers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20377572-tarski-introduction-to-logic-and-to-the-methodology-of-the-deductive-sciences-4ed-oup-1994-1-copy.pdf) is good, albeit a bit overkill). For an introduction to proofs, The Book of Proof is the standard text (https://richardhammack.github.io/BookOfProof/Main.pdf). Polya's How to solve it is good to learn how to tackle problems. If you just want to be a deeper thinker, that is more than enough. More math will just make you better at math.
>>25364212Not really answering your question. Just want to talk a bit about creative problem solving books.Some math problem solving books try to teach general problem solving. Not just mathematical problem solving. Like Polya’s books, or Paul Zeitz’s. Mathematical puzzle books also try to promote more creative out-of-the-box approaches. Like in Martin Gardner’s books, Peter Winkler’s. I have seen domain-specific books. Like problem solving books for physics problems (like Belikov’s), for engineering (design), and so on. Of course there’s also TRIZ. I think that makes sense. Each field would have their own approaches when solving problems.There are more generic (self-help) books, usually under “creativity” or “lateral thinking” label.——-To think more clearly, probably meditation and physical exercise will help most. Good diet too. Then mental health workbook, like those CBT workbooks. And those logical thinking fallacies collection, like Rolf Dobelli’s. I like Scott Adams’ style affirmation. Writing a diary probably works similarly.——-For tactical and strategic thinking, you can internalize the most important tip in traditional games. You need to think 3 moves ahead. Your move -> your opponent’s possible counter -> your counter to that counter. Easier said than done. It’s a huge search space.——-I think “systems thinking”, “mental models”, and other bullshits like that are silicon valley’s grifts.
>>25364212Reverend Insanity.
I'm so tired of self improvement. Give me some good self-destructive books that improve my ability to become everyone's problem.
>>25369866>years english will be a dead language while Maxwell's equations will be still studiedHeh, based.
>>25367217What would you say is the most practical branch of mathematics? Statistics?
>>25364212If you want some cool math literature you should check out the book Flatland.
There's no point in trying to educate yourself beyond your intelligence.
>>25364212https://www.readthesequences.combonus: a lot of the social science cited got raped by the replication crisis, so you get to practice an aspect of the skill you're being taught against the text you're learning it from. whenever he mentions a finding from social science, you can try to figure out whether it's a real finding, a phantom that didn't replicate, or an outright fraud!
>>25371047Great recs thanks.
>>25372429But how will I know limits from liesIf I never try?
>>25364212Plato
>>25372463>the sequences in 2026ngmi
>>25364212The Art of the Checkmate
>>25364212Statistics and probability, maybe chaos theory and complexity theory
