Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A
ISBN: 9788427911758
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Drew Houston
Business & Entrepreneurship"[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm, or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about that question."
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Ev Williams
Business & Entrepreneurship"One of the few novels I’ve ever read twice (though it’s been about 20 years, so it might be time for a reread). A philosophy book in the form of a novel that has very little to do with motorcycle maintenance. Instead, it has a lot to do with the elusive aspects of “quality,” and the importance of attitude in your approach to life."
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Josh Waitzkin
Sports"Inspired my cultivation of dynamic quality as a way of life."
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Bryan Johnson
Technology"Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter."
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Fred Wilson
Finance & Investing"A great one."
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Jordan Peterson
Philosophy & Religion"Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website."
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Paul Graham
Business & Entrepreneurship"Paul Graham mentioned this book on Twitter."
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Joshua Waitzkin
Sports"One of the most important books in the world to focus on quality than inequality, learning to find art in anything, deeply, deeply brilliant, philosophical book."
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Phil Jackson
Sports"Phil Jackson recommended this book on Twitter."
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Entertainment"Yeah. Game changer. At in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Great book for other reasons too."
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Austen Allred
Business & Entrepreneurship"Didn’t get it first time."
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