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About Self-Improvement and Better Conversations
Dale Carnegie is changing yet an other life. He just collected an other soul through his How to Win Friends & Influence People. Throughout this classical piece of thorough research I couldn't help but think how wrong I have behaved my entire life. Why, just why did I not read it in high school?! It... Continue Reading →
The Lost Lady of the Amazon by Anthony Smith
I came to read this book, because somehow it caught my attention two years ago at the uni library when they were giving some books away. Travel story. I'd like to read that! And then it sat in my shelf for years. It was a short read so finally I figured, it's time to go... Continue Reading →
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In his second essay of his first series, Emerson disputes how great men make themselves. What makes them great is their trust in their own minds, and by that trust they dare the novelty created in their minds to be revealed to wider audiences. Insist on yourself, never imitate. Your own gift you can present... Continue Reading →
Fear – Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life by OSHO
I'm afraid. I'm afraid of the volume of Donald Drumpf's media coverage and sharp items flying. Osho provokes a healthy mindset. It is similar to getting rid of spiritual materialism, telling us we are just energy. We just exist and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously. We are part of a bigger existence and "I"... Continue Reading →
The Pathology of Normalcy by Erich Fromm
Is an individual sane when he or she is adjusted to an insane society? Probably this question is what most describes how pathological it is to be normal, to blend in. Societies we live in are to us, humans, like water to fish - swimming our entire lives in the same pond we never notice... Continue Reading →
Nature; Addresses, and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson is madly in love with the world, the life, the nature and it glows out of every word, sentence, comma, letter he has written. He loves life and respects the nature and human intelligence that much, he praises them in every way possible. His style is impeccable, yet hard to grasp at once. It... Continue Reading →
Eye of the Revival by Pyotr Levin
The Russian author tells his story from the nineties how coincidence took him to a monastery in Tibet. There, a lama taught him ancient exercises that preserve one's energy. The monks living there practice them to be immortal. He mentions of people over one hundred and fifty years, looking no more than fifty. The western... Continue Reading →
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Our world is embedded with the glorification of rational thinking - every business must have a plan, every war a strategy, every decision an explanation. As Gladwell shows in Blink, though, things rarely go according to plan, especially when following the plan depends on various uncontrollable factors, such as the weather, other people or our own feelings. We... Continue Reading →
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Why do we do the things that we are used to doing? If, so far, you have identified some of your bad habits, chances are it has slipped through your mind before. The Power of Habit answers that and explains through colourful range of examples how habits are embedded in our lives, how to change them and how to create... Continue Reading →
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