17 Books To Become A "Dangerous" Thinker

reading is the only way you can stretch your brain to its full capacity. While documentaries or educational content can be good, they don't force your brain to focus and comprehend as much as reading does. So I thought i'd make a video on the 17 books I found to personally stretch my mind and increase its ability to comprehend hard topics, ideas and concepts. I've tried to include a bit of everything from philosophy, to literature to biographies to educational history. Some of the writers included in this video essay are J.R.R. Tolkien, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Niccolo Machiavelli. I hope you enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - Nietzsche 'The Geneology of Morals' 01:43 - The House of Morgan 03:01 - Karl Marx 04:27 - The Prince 05:59 - Goethe's Faust 06:59 - Plato's Symposium 07:49 - Crime and Punishment 08:42 - A Good Man is Hard to Find 09:32 - The Lord of The Rings 11:10 - The Remains of the Day 13:04 - The Bible, Quran & The Dhammapada 14:26 - Winston Churchill: My Early Life 15:54 - Thomas Jefferson biography 16:58 - The Book of Elon 18:42 - The Intellectual Life #literature #philosophy #videoessay