book review
Book reviews for the self-help enthusiast to help you conquer obstacles and achieve goals.
Best Reads of 2020
I can confidently say that 2020 certainly did not go the way any of us expected it to go. As this turbulent year finally comes to end, it is important to look back on one of the positives that came out of everything that happened over the last twelve months. One of the biggest things that I’m grateful for is the amount of time that I was able to dedicate to reading. Although 2020 wasn’t perfect (not even close to perfect, if I’m being honest), I was able to find my enjoyment in reading again. I read more than 30 books this year, and I want to take some time to give you my Best Reads of 2020.
By Kurt Mason5 years ago in Motivation
Stop Sabotaging Yourself and Overcome Anxiety and Fear
When Napoleon Hill starts the chapter on how to outwit the six ghosts of fear in Think and Grow Rich, he suggests to the reader to take inventory on the fear(s) holding him back and cure himself of these fears.
By Sarah Nderi5 years ago in Motivation
Beware The Double-edged Sword of Literacy
When I grew up, everyone in my family was an avid reader, so I believed in the power of the written word. In our house, if you had a problem that you didn’t know how to solve, you went to the library and found the solution in a book. That’s probably why I’m so fond of self-help books.
By Tree Langdon5 years ago in Motivation
The power of habits
I've been racking up some habits lately during the Coronovirus epidemic, one of them being watching and gorging on Netflix -- the movies I've been meaning to watch and the new shows that have recently come out ("Tiny Pretty Things," anyone?). With my mind numb from about three hours of digesting Netflix shows, I sit down in front of my computer today and as I am filled with part-ennui, excitement, uncertainty, tiredness, and ambivalence, I look to 2021 and reflect back upon this past year.
By Susan Lee5 years ago in Motivation
4 Must-Read Books to Help You Prepare for 2021
First, let me confess to you that I no longer read that many books as I used to. I just read a bunch of articles here in Medium. I know I have to start again soon because I feel like I’m not learning as much anymore.
By Anggun Bawinur5 years ago in Motivation
Book Review - 'Greenlights' by Matthew McConaughey
In a year of ‘red lights’, it’s been both enlightening and refreshing to read a book by a man who has spent his first fifty years on the planet chasing ‘greenlights.’ That phrase of catching ‘greenlights’ is also the formal title of Matthew McConaughey’s memoir / autobiography / personal growth tale that draws the reader in. I first heard about Mr. McConaughey’s book when he appeared on the ‘Joe Rogan Experience’, Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. Mr. Rogan coined the book as being ‘whiskey philosophy’ with McConaughey being the philosopher over a glass of whiskey.
By Ben W5 years ago in Motivation
The Girl Gets To Choose
When I was a young girl, I fell in love with stories. Our family was made up of readers and our favorite weekly outing was to the library where we would spend hours, browsing the stacks. I remember the first time I discovered a series. The series was about a farmer’s field and a rabbit and then all of the other animals that lived in the surrounding meadow and waterways.
By Tree Langdon5 years ago in Motivation
Things Florence Given has taught me about being a woman in a patriarchal world
For the past few months, I've been following Florence Given quote closely on Instagram. Like many social activists, she uses her instagram platform to raise issues of awareness of sexuality, race and gender and has created some pretty incredible artwork embedded with sharp and witty slogans about the above issues, one of which is my desktop background. Florence recently published a book called Women Don't Owe You Pretty, which broke a bunch of records after its publication and is probably one of my favourite reads of 2020. It's definitely my favourite feminist manifesto and opened my eyes to many behavioural, emotional and psychological things that I was subconsciously (or consciously) doing to myself and additionally, what norms living in a patriarchal society inflicts upon women. So I thought I'd share a few points which stood out for me and made me ponder on my own internal and external thoughts, actions, lifestyle and tendencies. I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, some of them will resonate with you too. They are as follows:
By Virag Dombay5 years ago in Motivation
I Experimented on Myself Using “The Secret”
It was in the summer of 2013 when I got hold of The Secret book by Rhonda Byrne. It is a self-help book containing a lot of stories on the workings of the Law of Attraction. The book claims that we can change our circumstances just by changing our thoughts. Be positive, be specific on what you want, and the universe will arrange the events to deliver it to you – that's the basic instruction contained in the book.
By Olivia Marlene5 years ago in Motivation
Curb Your Instincts: It’s All Gravy
“Before modern medicine, one of the worst imaginable skin diseases was syphilis, which would start as itchy boils and then eat its way into the bones until it exposed the skeleton. In Russia, it was called Polish disease, in Germany, the French Disease, in France, the Italian disease.” — Hans Rosling, Factfulness
By Akarsh Nalawade5 years ago in Motivation
Book Review: Silence The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
It reminds us that beauty is all around us, yet we do not pay attention rather visually or sound. To hear the beauty is through silence. Yet, if we don't have silence, we can't hear the beauty around us. The noise that we hear in our day to day lives drowns out the beauty around us. In my opinion, this may not be true for all people, but the majority of us live to survive, not living to live. We can not hear beauty, the call of life, or the call of love. As humans, we do not have the time to listen to this during our daily lives in tunnel vision. The easiest thing to hear is all the negative, what you could have done differently, focusing more on our past mistakes or life lessons versus focusing on the present and making our future moves worth something to be proud about.
By Nia on Air5 years ago in Motivation
