📚 5 Books mentioned in "The Most Valuable Skill In The Modern World – George Mack" of Modern Wisdom

So it start it's a it's called don't tell me I can't. It's written by a 14-year-old at the time called Cole Summers and essentially just to contrast it to the Department of Education.

The guest introduces this book as an example of high agency, written by a young person who achieved remarkable things.

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I know we've uh spoken about this before of the um uh How to Know a Person, that book.

The guest refers to a previous conversation about this book, mentioning it in the context of understanding others and social interaction.

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Uh, in fact, I'm reading a book at the moment by Martin Seligman, uh, that has a quiz, and much of the quiz is asking you questions about agency.

The host mentions reading a book by Martin Seligman that contains a quiz about agency, relating it to the concept of internal/external locus of control.

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Uh, the forgotten Highlander, Alistister Urkhart, you know, uh, Victor Franklman, Search for Meaning in some ways, too.

The guest lists examples of high agency people and includes Victor Frankl and his book "Search for Meaning".

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There's a beautiful line in the sovereign individual where he talks about the Roman Empire falling and he said that for example it's an easy question right now which is when did the Roman Empire fall and people can just give the specific date that it fell when did the Roman society recognize that the Roman Empire fell for the mo the majority of people it was not on that date some day for some people it was weeks after it was months after some people it was centuries after that they fully realized that the Roman Empire had fallen.

The guest quotes or references a line from this book about the fall of the Roman Empire and how its recognition lagged the actual event, using it to illustrate viewing the present with a historian's frame.

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