Tag: #Happiness
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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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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Review: Why Mark Manson’s Brutal Honesty Might Be the Key to Real Happiness
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — The Freedom of Caring Less, Living More When I first opened Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck*, I expected sarcasm — a humorous take on modern self-help clichés.What I didn’t expect was philosophy. Behind the profanity and the bright orange cover lies…
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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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Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins
A Radical Question: What If the Goal Isn’t to Save, but to Spend Well? What if the ultimate goal of money isn’t to die rich —but to die with nothing left unexperienced? Bill Perkins opens Die With Zero with a provocative premise:Most people spend their entire lives trying to accumulate wealth,but forget that wealth is…
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
Why This Book Hits So Close to Home Scroll. Click. Like. Repeat.In a world where pleasure is one tap away, Dopamine Nation feels less like a science book and more like a mirror. Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, takes readers into her clinic—and into their own habits—to reveal how we’ve all become…
