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The Courage to Be Disliked
DEEP & PHILOSOPHICALThe Courage toBe DislikedKISHIMI & KOGASHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.ICHIRO KISHIMI & FUMITAKE KOGA
Ichiro Kishimi is a Japanese philosopher, author, and certified counselor based in Kyoto. He has spent decades studying and translating the works of Alfred Adler — an Austrian psychologist who was largely overshadowed by Freud but whose ideas are arguably more practical and hopeful. Kishimi beca…
Ikigai
DEEP & PHILOSOPHICALIkigaiHECTOR GARCIA & FRANCESC MIRALLESSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.HECTOR GARCIA & FRANCESC MIRALLES
Hector Garcia is a Spanish software engineer who moved to Japan in his late twenties and simply never left. He's been living in Tokyo for over fifteen years and runs a popular blog under his Japanese pen name, Kirai. He writes about Japanese culture, technology, and life in a way that fee…
The Happiness Advantage
SELF-HELPThe HappinessAdvantageSHAWN ACHORSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.SHAWN ACHOR
Shawn Achor grew up in Waco, Texas, and ended up at Harvard — not just as a student, but eventually as one of its most popular teachers. He taught the famous "Positive Psychology" course there, and the waiting list for his class reportedly stretched into the hundreds. That alone tells you something about the man.
What makes Achor in…
Flow
DEEP & PHILOSOPHICALFlowMIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYISHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "cheeks-sent-me-high" — yes, really) was a Hungarian-American psychologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago and later at Claremont Graduate University. He's considered one of the founders of positive psychology, alongside Martin Seligman. But he ar…
The Magic of Thinking Big
SELF-HELPThe Magic ofThinking BigDAVID SCHWARTZSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.DAVID SCHWARTZ
David J. Schwartz was a professor of marketing at Georgia State University and a management consultant who spent much of his career studying one question: why do some people consistently achieve more than others? He wasn't a celebrity or a tech billionaire. He was a professor who paid close attention to how people thought — and no…
Grit
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTGritANGELA DUCKWORTHSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.ANGELA DUCKWORTH
Angela Duckworth grew up in a household where her father regularly reminded her that she was "no genius." That kind of upbringing could go either way — and for her, it went somewhere remarkable. She studied neuroscience at Harvard, then went on to teach math in public schools in New York and San Francisco before realizing she …
The One Thing
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTThe One ThingGARY KELLERSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.GARY KELLER
Gary Keller co-founded Keller Williams Realty in 1983, and today it's the largest real estate company in the world by agent count. That didn't happen by accident. He started with a single office in Austin, Texas, during one of the worst real estate downturns in American history. Most people would have quit. He didn't.What'…
Start With Why
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTStart With WhySIMON SINEKSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.SIMON SINEK
Simon Sinek is a British-American author and speaker who grew up in multiple countries — England, South Africa, Hong Kong — before eventually landing in the United States. He studied law at City University London before switching to anthropology at Brandeis University. That background in human behavior shows up everywhere in his work.Hi…
The Miracle Morning
SELF-HELPThe MiracleMorningHAL ELRODSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.HAL ELROD
Hal Elrod's story is one of the more remarkable ones you'll come across. At 20, he was hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70 mph. His heart stopped for six minutes. Doctors told his parents he would likely never walk again. He was in a coma for six days. When he woke up, he had permanent brain damage and 11 broken bones. He walked out of the ho…
Essentialism
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTEssentialismGREG MCKEOWNSHORTISNEWMORE.IN This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.GREG MCKEOWN
Greg McKeown is British, which somehow makes his argument about doing less feel more credible. He studied at Stanford, where he also got his MBA, and spent years researching why some incredibly talented people seem to go nowhere while others with less raw ability build remarkable careers and lives. His answer, more or less, was that the…
The Prophet-Summary
This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.KAHLIL GIBRAN
Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 in Bsharri, a mountain village in what is now Lebanon. His family emigrated to Boston when he was twelve, which put him in the position of being an outsider almost everywhere he went — too Arab for America, too Americanized when he went back. He spent his life writing in both Arabic and English, which is unusual enough on its own.He moved to New York in his twenties a…
Siddhartha-5 Min Summary
This post may contain affiliate links — at no extra cost to you.HERMANN HESSE
Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany, to a family of missionaries. He ran away from seminary school at fifteen, worked as a bookseller, and basically taught himself everything he knew about literature and philosophy. He spent years quietly writing while Europe tore itself apart in two world wars, and in 1946 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature — though by then he'd already retreated…
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