Ray Dalio’s 2017 Reading List
The 5 books Ray Dalio recommended in 2017, with the reasons in their own words. See all the books Ray Dalio recommends.
5 books recommended in 2017
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Leonard Mlodinow, in his excellent book Subliminal, writes, “We usually assume that what distinguishes us [from other species] is IQ. But it is our social IQ that ought to be the principal quality that differentiates us.”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The book I’d give [every graduating senior in college or high school] would be [...] Joseph Campbell’s 'Hero of a Thousand Faces'. It's little bit dense but it’s so rich, so it’s a good one.
The Lessons of History
The book I’d give [every graduating senior in college or high school] would be 'Lessons From History'. This is the Durants, they were maybe the greatest historians of all time. Anyway, of 5,000 years of history, probably wrote 5,000 pages on it, and they took… Read the full quote
The book I’d give [every graduating senior in college or high school] would be 'Lessons From History'. This is the Durants, they were maybe the greatest historians of all time. Anyway, of 5,000 years of history, probably wrote 5,000 pages on it, and they took this book - I think it’s 104 pages - and they took the themes of history, it could be from religion, natural resources, who knows, each one of these things, and they looked at it for themes of history through history. I think that, that would be great.
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
The book I’d give [every graduating senior in college or high school] would be [...] 'River From Eden' by Richard Dawkins. Another very short book on evolution, it just really puts things in perspective.
Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
The book was given to me, ‘cause people know that I like that stuff.