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Show moreπ Analytical overview of Telegram channel Books
Channel Books (@books) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 213 094 subscribers, ranking 48 in the Books category and 75 in the USA region.
π Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on Π½Π΅Π²ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎ, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 213 094 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 26 July, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 2 313 over the last 30 days and by 130 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 13.56%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 3.46% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 28 896 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 7 373 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 52.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as geopolitic, recommendation, perspective, tonne, discipline.
π Description and content policy
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Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 27 July, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Books category.
1. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 2. The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter 3. The Joys of Compounding by Gautam Baid 4. The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier 5. Awareness by Anthony de Mello 6. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver BurkemanRead the full article
Q: Where does first-principles thinking come from? βWhen you want to do something new, you have to apply the physics approach. Physicists discover counterintuitive new things, like quantum mechanics. They do that by thinking from βfirst principlesβ: building their reasoning from the ground up.β βI would encourage people to use the mental tools of physics and apply them broadly in life. They are the best tools.β βThe normal way we conduct our lives is reasoning by analogy. That means we do something because itβs similar to something else, or what other people are doing.β βWhen you think this way, you only get slight iterations. Itβs easier to reason by analogy rather than from first principles, so thatβs what we do most of the time.β β βYouβre not going to create revolutionary cars or rockets in forty hours a week. It just wonβt work. Colonizing Mars isnβt going to happen on forty hours a week.β βNobody ever changed the world on forty hours a week.βBook: The Book of Elon by Eric Jorgenson
βIs the tape on?β he said suddenly, his eyes still closed. βYes, yes,β I quickly said, pressing down the play and record buttons. βWhat Iβm doing now,β he continued, his eyes still closed, βis detaching myself from the experience.β βDetaching yourself?β βYes. Detaching myself. And this is importantβnot just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach.β He opened his eyes. He exhaled. βYou know what the Buddhists say? Donβt cling to things, because everything is impermanent.β βBut wait,β I said. βArenβt you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?β βYes.β βWell, how can you do that if youβre detached?β βAh. Youβre thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesnβt mean you donβt let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. Thatβs how you are able to leave it.β "As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on-in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.β His voice was raspy, which usually meant he needec to stop for a while. I placed the plant back on the ledge and went to shut off the tape recorder. This is the last sentence Morrie got out before I did: βDeath ends a life, not a relationship.βBook: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Imagine being so intrinsically compelled by what you do that it feels almost unfair to receive rewards and recognition for doing it. Imagine being so compulsively engaged that you wish there were more hours in the day, and more days in a life, so that you could do even more of it. Imagine the thing you are doing feels almost more important than life itself. Imagine doing something you love so much that no amount of money could entice you to give up doing it. Imagine having such an unquenchable enthusiasm for what you do that you might seem childlike to those around you. Imagine that focusing the inner fire with great intensity does the exact opposite of causing burnout: It feeds the fire. Imagine you are able to sustain the fire for days, weeks, months, years, decades, maybe even the rest of your entire life. Luck is something that happens to you, largely out of your control. Return on luck is what you make of your luck (good or bad) when it comes. The question is not whether you will get luck, both good luck and bad, but what you do with the luck that you get.Book: What to Make of a Life by Jim Collins
One of the most important skills for learning to deal with thoughts and their impact on our mood is getting some distance from them. Sounds difficult when those thoughts are inside your own mind, but humans have a powerful tool that helps us to put thoughts at armβs length and give us the distance we need. Itβs called metacognition, which is a fancy name for thoughts about your thoughts. Metacognition is the process of stepping back from the thoughts and getting enough distance to allow us to see those thoughts for what they really are. When you do this, they lose some of their power over you and how you feel and behave. You get to choose how you respond to them rather than feeling controlled and driven by something. Metacognition sounds complicated but it is simply the process of noticing which thoughts pop into your head and observing how they make you feel. Rumination is like a thoughts washing machine. Itβs the process of churning thoughts over and over for minutes, hours or days at a time. We already know that the depressed brain is more likely to focus on the thought biases that can make you feel worse. If you combine those thought biases with the psychological equivalent of rumination, then you have a recipe for more intense and prolonged distress. In fact, we know from the research that rumination is a key factor in maintaining depression. The more you ruminate, the more you stay stuck. It works to intensify and prolong any sadness or depression that may be there.Book: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith
