Which books have fundamentally changed the way you think?

[Coert Visser]

I am curious about this: what 2 or 3 (or 4) books have fundamentally changed the way you think about yourself, your work, people, life? What was it about those books that changed the way you think and how did it influence you, to what did it lead? Hope to hear from you and, of course, soon I'll share which books changed my way of thinking, too.

Here are the lists (for full explanations read the comments section):

Gwenda Schlundt Bodien:

1. Eline Vere by Louis Couperus 2. J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourier by Christine Arnothy 3. Le Deuxième sexe by Simone de Beauvoir

4. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 5. Abolishing performance appraisals by Tom Coens & Mary Jenkins 6. Interviews with brief therapy experts by Michael Hoyt
7. One small step by Yvonne Dolan
8. Doen wat werkt by Coert Visser

Paul Avard

- The Road to Freedom by Jean Paul Sartre

- The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass

- Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Anna M. Vos

1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Bill O' Hanlon:

1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. 2. A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis. 3. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge.
4. The Structure of Magic by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
5. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

Anton Stellamans:

1) Wegmarken by Martin Heidegger

2) Violence et Metaphysique by Jacques Derrida

3) Ethica by Baruch Spinoza

4) Words Were Originally Magic by Steve De Shazer

5) De pathologie van de veldslag by Eelco Runia

6) The long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

7) Tao Te Ching I Tjing & Lao Tzu

Mark McKergow:

1. Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter

2. Shifting Contexts by Bill O'Hanlon and James Wilk

3. Complexity by Mitchell Waldrop

4. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn (in conjunction with the original)

Kirsten Dierolf:

1. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

2. On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein

3. Languages of Art by Nelson Goodman

4. Process and Reality by Whitehead

My list:

1. Your Erroneous Zones - Wayne Dyer.

2. Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter.

3. The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence by Don Tapscott.

4. Interviewing for Solutions by Peter De Jong and Insoo Kim Berg.

Peter Damoc:

1. The Kingdom of God is within you by Leo Tolstoy.

2. Awareness by Anthony de Mello.

3. The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.

4. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

5. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Phillip Ziegler:

1. Be here now by Ram Dass

2. The Heroic Client by Barry Duncan & Scott Miller

3. The Great Psychotherapy Debate by Bruce Wampold

Peter Millecam:

1. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho 2. How full is your bucket? by Tom Rath & Donald Clifton

3. Levensregel voor beginners by Wil Derksen.

Christopher Laney:

1. You'll See It When You Believe It by Wayne Dyer

2. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Bertrand Weegenaar:

1. The Hite Report by Shere Hite

2. Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky

3. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

4. Keres' Best Games of Chess by Fred Reinfeld & Paul Keres.

Michael Klingenstierna Hjerth:

1. Disney's illustrated book on Nuclear Physics

2. Tree of Knowledge by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela

3. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

4. Google links to neuroscience labs.

5. Emotional Awareness by Paul Ekman and Dalai Lama

Peter de Kock:

1. The dance of wounded souls by Robert Burney

2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3. The artist's way by Julia Cameron

4. Non violent communication, a language of compassion by Marshall Rosenberg

Gerard Finnemore:

1. The Emotional Brain by Joseph Ledoux

2. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

Riccardo Benardon:

1. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Paolo Terni:

1. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

2. The Nurture Assumption by J.R. Harris

3. Interviewing for Solutions by Peter De Jong & Insoo Kim Berg

4. Chaos by J. Gleick I know the question is hard, but let's hear it folks, what are the books that changed you?

[Neil Usher]

Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky