Whether we were trying to fit in with our peers as children or hoping our coworkers will like us as adults, we’ve all felt the desire to belong. It can also feel impossible to find acceptance while being yourself. Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown explores the need to belong and teaches us that to truly belong, we must be comfortable being our most authentic selves. Using…
How do we generate more wealth? Through her own experimentation, Buenostar has devised a deceptively simple two-step method to inviting abundance in our lives. She calls it the Happy Money method and it only takes five dollars to get started. Financial literacy education is going the way of the dodo. Children are growing up with no idea how to gain or manage money and it…
Want to change your life? In her book The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins shows you how with two simple methods: First, she explains what’s holding us back from doing the things we want to do. Then, she offers a solution to help us overcome those obstacles and help us take the first step toward getting everything we want in life. Think about what you…
The key to success is developing genuine, meaningful connections. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi is a self-improvement book focused on helping the reader sharpen their networking skills and nurture their professional and personal relationships. Because ultimately, to sum up the book’s overall message, if you’re eating alone, you’re missing out on an opportunity to…
In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcom Gladwell explores the psychology behind decision making and its correlation with our subconscious biases. Gladwell incorporates scientific studies and findings with a series of stories about judging by first impressions to help the reader understand why we make these decisions before taking the time to carefully consider the facts. Have you ever had a feeling that…
In Michael Lewis: The Undoing Project, he explores the partnership of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, two of the most famous psychologists you’ve never heard of. Though the pair live in obscurity outside of academia, their work—often considered the scientific community’s first foray into behavioral economics—includes some of the most often-cited academic papers of all time, and have completely changed the way we understand and…
Shauna Niequist seemed to have it all. She had a successful career, a loving family, and wanted for nothing. But, despite how good her life looked on the outside, she was exhausted and deeply unhappy. She spent her entire adult life working longer, pushing harder, and striving to meet the expectations set by the world around her… or, rather, the expectations she thought had been…
Gary Chapman is a marriage counselor who, over years of helping couples work toward healthier relationships, has found that one consistent problem in unhappy relationships is miscommunication. Not just failing to talk to each other, but failing to express love in the same language. If one partner expects to be loved through quality time but the other expects gifts, neither are going to feel fully…
Gabourey Sidibe was told by three different psychics on three different occasions that she would someday become famous. They didn’t know how, when, or why, only that she would someday be a household name, even famous enough to meet Oprah. There was something in her eyes, they said, something about the confidence with which she carried herself, that would someday make her a superstar. As…
When Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama met in Dharamsala for a week in 2015, they set out to accomplish two things. The first (and arguably more important) was to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday, and spend precious time together for what may be the two friends’ final meeting. The second was to write The Book of Joy. Teamed up with…
