Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By: Celeste Headlee
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human…
Want to Read $ 14.99"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "inactive" - idleness offers an opportunity for Play, something people rarely indulge in these days."-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "inactive" - idleness offers an opportunity for Play, something people rarely indulge in these days."-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
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1. Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar
By: Amy Ahlers
3.68
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Most of us have a nonstop chorus of criticism in our heads -- voices not unlike those of the mean g… read more
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2. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
3. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more
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"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
4. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
5. Four Thousand Weeks
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.22
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more
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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
6. I'm Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World
By: Milan Kordestani
4.26
Format: 272 pages, ebook
A straightforward look at the history and the art of maintaining courteous communication in an incr… read more
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"Honest self-reflection is true self-reflection."-Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World
"Self-reflection improves civil discourse by pushing you toward reason."-Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World
"In a sense, trust is simply a stronger, more grounded version of faith."-Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World
"Without active listening, you can not adequately contribute to civil discourse."-Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: The Art of Civil Discourse: A Guide to Maintaining Courteous Communication in an Increasingly Divided World
7. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
By: Ronald M. Razmi
4.28
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more
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"It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify."-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including mo…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
9. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
10. How to Keep House While Drowning
By: K.C. Davis
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more
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"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
12. The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
By: Catherine Price
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, t… read more
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"One of the many great things about taking breaks from screens and devices is that it forces you to be still. This stillness can be very uncomfortable, but it also gives your brain a chance to breathe…"-Catherine Price, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
13. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
By: Simone Stolzoff
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more
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"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
14. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By: Celeste Headlee
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more
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"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
15. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
16. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
By: Katherine Morgan Schafler
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more
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"Energy management beats time management."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
17. Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living
By: Holly Trantham
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful, full-color guide to living with money, not for money, packed with fun, tangible advice… read more
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18. The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
By: Emily Ballesteros
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings … read more
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19. The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience
By: Aditi Nerurkar
4.11
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
“The key is managing stress, so we can lead healthier, happier lives. The 5 Resets will help you do… read more
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20. 50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain: Simple Skills to Soothe Anxiety and Create New Neural Pathways to Calm
By: Catherine M. Pittman
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A take-anywhere toolkit to short-circuit anxiety and rewire your brain for lasting calm. Do you str… read more
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21. Let's Talk About Aging Parents
By: Laura Tamblyn Watts
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Caring for an aging parent can raise a host of tricky questions, but these conversation-starting sc… read more
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