{"id":390,"date":"2007-06-24T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T07:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-06-24T02:15:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T07:15:45","slug":"10-books-that-shaped-my-life-and-40-others-i-love-zen-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/10-books-that-shaped-my-life-and-40-others-i-love-zen-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love | zen habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/zenhabits.gif\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-390];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/zenhabits.gif','popup','width=343,height=139,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/zenhabits-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"246\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Zenhabits\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2007\/06\/10-books-that-shaped-my-life-and-40-others-i-love\/\" >10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love | zen habits<\/a>:<br \/>\n10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love<br \/>\nReader Ed from Ireland recently asked:<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still really only a beginner into the Zen Habits lifestyle and your site as given me a great deal of helpful information instantly. Do you think there are any books, sites you could suggest that really made an impression on you?<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tough one. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a book lover, to be honest, and to choose just a few books that have influenced me is like choosing among your babies. However, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to share a few books that have shaped the way I think, and that I would highly recommend. These are not in order:<\/p>\n<p>Simplify Your Life and Living the Simple Life by Elaine St. James. I listed this first because it is one of the books that most influenced the simple philosophy behind this site. I began simplifying my life when I first read these books a decade ago, and though I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had some ups and downs, I credit my love for simplifying to these books. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an easy read and there are some great tips in t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love | zen habits: 10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love Reader Ed from Ireland recently asked: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still really only a beginner into the Zen Habits lifestyle and your site as given me a great deal of helpful information instantly. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/10-books-that-shaped-my-life-and-40-others-i-love-zen-habits\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Books That Shaped My Life, and 40 Others I Love | zen habits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}