"Read this book. It'll help." Maybe. You can probably name books, articles, poems, lectures, interviews, or films that shaped you in a big way. But memory is a funny thing; when we think back on something that moved us emotionally or intellectually, we remember it changing our lives when it may have done nothing of the sort. I know a woman who gushed about a seeing a play that she called "life-changing." Her sarcastic friend said (behind her back), "Name one thing in your lif