1)Only homo sapiens can speak about the things that don't really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
2)Myth and fictions accustomed people, nearly from the moment of birth, to think in certain ways, to behave in accordance with certain standards, to want certain things, and to observe certain rules.
3)Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If feel that somethings is missing or not quite right, then we probably need to buy a product.
4)Once a real gap in ability opens between the rich and the poor, it will become almost impossible to close it.
5)Stories serve as the foundations and pillars of human societies. As history unfolded, stories about gods, nations and corporations grew so powerful that they began to dominate objective reality.
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13)Man's Search For Meaning
14)A Short History of Nearly Everything
15)The Four Agreements
16)The Power of Habit
17)21 Lessons for 21st Century
18)Homo Deus
19)Alchemist
20)War and Peace
21)Factfulness
22)The Lessons of History
23)The Power of Now
24)I Will Teach you to be rich
25)Einstein
26)Autobiography of Yogi
27)Leonardo da Vinci
28)Benjamin Franklin
29)Why We Sleep 30)5 am club
31)Built to Serve
32)The Go Giver
33)Meditations
34)Ego is the enemy
35)Stillness is the key
36)Lives of the stoics