The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want — Sonja Lyubomirsky Some books try to inspire you; others hand you a manual. The How of Happiness is one of the few that manages both. Sonja Lyubomirsky is a research psychologist who’s spent decades studying what makes people happy. Her message …
Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation — Gabriele Oettingen There’s no shortage of books that tell you to think positive, dream big, and manifest success. Gabriele Oettingen’s Rethinking Positive Thinking takes that familiar idea and turns it inside out. A leading psychologist and researcher, Oettingen challenges the assumption that optimism alone drives …
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Most writing on trauma focuses on damage. Stephen Joseph doesn’t deny the wounds; he widens the frame. What Doesn’t Kill Us is a careful, humane exploration of posttraumatic growth — the genuine, measurable ways people can change for the better after life has been ripped open. It isn’t a fairy tale about silver linings. It’s …
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Why Hope Matters Hope isn’t something fragile. It’s not a candle flickering in the dark, or a naïve belief that things will somehow get better. Charles Snyder, in The Psychology of Hope, reframes it as something sturdier and more deliberate—a mental process that can be measured, built, and used to change the course of our …
Becoming Unbeatable Mark Divine doesn’t write like a self-help guru—he writes like a man who’s been tested. A retired Navy SEAL commander, he built Unbeatable Mind around one simple but profound truth: mental toughness can be trained. The book blends battlefield lessons, meditation, leadership, and philosophy into something that’s surprisingly human. At its core, Unbeatable …
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Nana Korobi Ya Oki & Grit I first came across the phrase Fall 7, Rise 8 (literally meaning fall down seven times, get back up eight times) when listening to a summary of Angela Duckworth’s book Grit. You can read our own summary of that book here. Duckworth has famously said if she were ever …
Use Hal Elrod’s “5 Minute Rule” to deal with negative emotions when you suffer setbacks. When to use The 5 Minute Rule: When something “bad” happens, set a timer for 5 minutes and use that time to experience every emotion that comes up. Once your time is done, take a deep breath and say out …
The Dance Between Emotion and Action Most of us are taught to manage our emotions by either bottling them up or trying to “fix” them. Susan David’s Emotional Agility offers a third path—one that’s gentler, wiser, and far more effective. David, a Harvard psychologist, reframes emotions not as problems to be solved, but as data …
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joyby Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant When Life Changes Without Asking No one plans for Option B. It’s what arrives when life breaks the script—when loss, illness, failure, or heartbreak shatters Option A. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg found herself living in that …
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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at Itby Kelly McGonigal Rethinking the Enemy Most of us have been taught that stress is poison—a silent killer to be minimized, avoided, or “managed.” Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, turns that idea on its head. In The …
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