While in college, I dabbled a fair amount in philosophy. I did your requisite Plato, Sarte, Camus (a personal fave) ect. I even ended up writing a paper refuting St. Anselm's ontological argument, which...didn't go over well at all with the professor. Anyway, I would say that, while I liked philosophy, I had trouble focusing on specifics. But then I came upon a book. Not just a book but the literary holy grail of all things philosphical. It was such a powerful cocktail of logic and wisdom that I felt humbled just reading it and haven't looked back since. What book, you ask? Why that book is Crazy From the Heat by David Lee Roth.