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Books That Changed My Life!

Books That Changed My Life  If you want your life to be different… READ! Words are thoughts that when shared are accepted as good ideas or bad ideas. Every single word you hear or read consciously or subconsciously shapes your beliefs and therefore they shape your life. Below you will find seventy-seven books from my personal recommended reading list. These books have changed my life. I am grateful to each author whose words shaped my soul. If you want your life to be different… read! Allyson Lewis’ Top 10 Must Read Books Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Acct of Operation Redwing & the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10  by Marcus Lutrell Man’s Search for Meaning  by Victor Frankle Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage  by Alfred Lansing The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science  by Norman Doidge Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience  by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi How to Win Friends and Influence Peo...

7 Famous Quotes About the Future That Are Actually Fake

Here at Paleofuture, we love failed predictions. It’s kind of our bread and butter. But shockingly, some of the failed predictions being passed around on the internet are often misleading, frequently taken out of context, or sometimes completely fabricated. Fake quotes on the internet? Unbelievable,  I know . But today we have seven predictions you may have seen recently as examples of “bad predictions.” They sound too good to be true. And that’s because they are. 1) “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US patent office in 1899 This is perhaps the most popular “failed prediction” of our age. I think it’s now technically illegal to make a Powerpoint presentation about business innovation without this quote in your first slide. The only problem? It’s totally fake. There’s no evidence that Duell ever said it. It gets debunked from time to time in books like  Future Hype (2006) and  Atomic Aw...