Summary of 20 Amazing Recommendations by Anand Gandhi

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Anand Gandhi provides 20 amazing recommendations for living a fulfilling life. These include listening to music only when necessary, seeking peer reviews, and being open to new ideas. These are excellent advice for young people seeking to develop their lives and reach their potential.

• 00:00:00 Anand Gandhi recommends books, music, and poetry, among other things, to his audience. He discusses the first book that impacted his life, which was a children's encyclopedia called "Children's Knowledge Bank Volume 2." The book had questions about science and philosophy that he found intriguing at the age of seven. He recommends three books to his audience that explore these topics further.
• 00:05:00 Anand Gandhi recommends books on philosophy and biology. He recommends Lives of a Cell, Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene, and Lynne Margulis' Evolutionary Theory.
• 00:10:00 Anand Gandhi recommends a variety of books and poetry, including Gujarati poetry which has a strong Urdu influence. He also recommends contemporary Kajati poetry. He says that he reads a journal every day and that he reads scientific journals.
• 00:15:00 Scholar.google has made it easy to read anything, and because I was having this conversation with my dear friend, Kunal Shah, yesterday about the biology of money, about how money has transformed our lives in more ways than we think it has, that was what I was reading or reading upon. I was brushing up my skills on economic theory and things that I haven't necessarily spent as much time doing, which is reading a lot of Richard Taylor's papers. My favorite book cover is David Mitchell Burke's "A Thousand Autumns of Jacob Deemer". My favorite dedication at the beginning of any book is Leonard Cohen's "Note to the Chinese Reader". My favorite monologue is from "Angels in America", the lawyer who gives this monologue about when he says "I'm not gay, I am you know who I am." And then he talks about categories and he talks about how "I'm a man who likes to other man, but I'm not gay." It is in this monologue that he talks about the politics of these categories and what these categories mean. I think it is a very well crafted piece of writing. My final question for this rapid fire was, what is the best book adaptation in terms of films, and my answer
• 00:20:00 Anand Gandhi provides 20 amazing recommendations for living a fulfilling life. These include listening to music only when necessary, seeking peer reviews, and being open to new ideas. These are excellent advice for young people seeking to develop their lives and reach their potential.