Tag: #BookReview
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Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today
Why We Fail Our Future Selves Hal Hershfield opens Your Future Self with a simple but haunting observation:we all want a better future — but we rarely act like it. “We treat our future selves as if they were strangers.” This paradox defines modern life.We know we should save more, eat better, exercise, or plan…
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again
The Attention Crisis You Didn’t See Coming Johann Hari begins Stolen Focus with a confession:he can’t pay attention anymore — and neither can we. “I could still read, but I couldn’t sink into reading.I could still think, but I couldn’t stay with a thought.” What starts as a personal struggle turns into a global investigation.Hari…
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The Modern Philosopher of Silicon Valley Naval Ravikant is not your typical entrepreneur.He’s part investor, part philosopher —a man who built startups, backed unicorns, and then questioned the very idea of success. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, curated by Eric Jorgenson,is a distilled map of his ideas about wealth, happiness, and leverage. “Seek wealth, not…
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The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
The Freedom Hidden in Being Misunderstood The Courage to Be Disliked begins with a paradox:to be truly happy, you must be willing to disappoint others. “Freedom is being disliked by other people.” Through a Socratic-style dialogue between a wise philosopher and a restless young man,the book dismantles the most common trap of modern life —…
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The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
When Comfort Becomes a Cage Michael Easter opens The Comfort Crisis with a simple observation:we are the most comfortable generation in human history —and the most anxious. “Comfort used to be rare. Now it’s everywhere — and it’s killing us.” From thermostats to food delivery to digital entertainment,we’ve engineered discomfort out of our lives.But in…
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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
When Grace Finds the Broken Brennan Manning begins The Ragamuffin Gospel with a confession, not a sermon.He doesn’t speak as a preacher looking down at the sinner,but as a sinner who has been found by grace. “Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all…
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
When Joy Becomes Worship John Piper begins Desiring God with a dangerous idea —dangerous not because it is wrong,but because it turns religion on its head. He writes: “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” With that one line, Piper reframes the entire Christian life.Faith is not about duty,…
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The Screwtape Letters
Whispers from the Shadows C.S. Lewis once said that the greatest trick the devil ever playedwas convincing the world he didn’t exist.In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis makes the unseen visible —not through fear, but through wit and piercing irony. Written during the chaos of World War II,this book imagines a series of letters from Screwtape,…
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The Pursuit of God
When Faith Becomes a Fire Few Christian classics burn with the quiet intensity of A.W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God.Written in a single train ride across the American Midwest in 1948,it reads less like a theological treatise and more like a prayer whispered in the dark. “To have found God and still to pursue Him…
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The Four Agreements Review: How Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals the Ancient Path to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements — The Ancient Path to Personal Freedom When you first open The Four Agreements, it doesn’t read like a typical self-help book.There are no checklists, no quick fixes, no promises of instant transformation. Instead, Don Miguel Ruiz begins with a revelation —that most of what we call life is not freedom, but…
