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No specific book changed my thinking on "almost everything." Mostly old age did that, and the process of attaining old age. Some of that process included books, and some of those are listed here.

> every action humans take can be traced back to an incentive

It's not enough to know that an action traces back to an incentive. You also need to know which of multiple possible incentives might be the incentive. The obvious incentive is often not the actual incentive, as we're seeing demonstrated in current American and British politics.




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