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13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
4.0
I think people need to watch Amy Ted talk before truly appreciating her book. Otherwise, it would become more or less cliche advice. These habits backed with stories from history and her own life could help strengthen anyone going through their hard times. Highly recommend.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
5.0
4.5
There are some fillers in the end but otherwise it's a great read.
There are some fillers in the end but otherwise it's a great read.
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
5.0
The man that wrote 1000 words every day since the age of 12 wrote about where he got his ideas. I also learned to appreciate poems from him.
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
5.0
"In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream-
Lingering in the golden gleam-
Life, what is it but a dream?"
Lewis Carroll's poems are so beautiful.
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream-
Lingering in the golden gleam-
Life, what is it but a dream?"
Lewis Carroll's poems are so beautiful.
Design Your Work: Praxis Volume 1 by Tiago Forte
2.0
2.5
Oh my god. This book is too much for me. Too many ideas left undeveloped. Tips are taken from the author's own system which is much different from mine so those are inapplicable. The author tone is also too enthusiastic, which is a turn-off for me considering this is a self-help book.
Having said that, I can't deny I still managed to get some useful ideas from this book. However I won't recommend this to anyone. System Thinking and Deep Work do a much better job in helping improve system.
This book is a nice collection of ideas but nothing more.
Oh my god. This book is too much for me. Too many ideas left undeveloped. Tips are taken from the author's own system which is much different from mine so those are inapplicable. The author tone is also too enthusiastic, which is a turn-off for me considering this is a self-help book.
Having said that, I can't deny I still managed to get some useful ideas from this book. However I won't recommend this to anyone. System Thinking and Deep Work do a much better job in helping improve system.
This book is a nice collection of ideas but nothing more.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
5.0
This story is beautifully written. I love the author style of putting the boys' after-Nickel lives and their lives during it chapter after chapter. It keeps me engaged. I couldn't wait to find out how the boys ended up where they were in the next chapter.
The moral of this story is painful. Elwood - the boy that kept Dr. King words in his heart got shot while running away, as if the plot twist of his future wasn't harsh enough (he was about to be a college student but because of an imbecile charge he found himself in Nickel. However, this is just an example of injustice miscarriage for black people).
I can't help feeling resentful for the black. Meanwhile, I also remind myself that life doesn't owe me anything, including fairness. Realizing this helps me acknowledge that I have power to control how I react to situations, not the situations themselves. Am I being over-optimistic like Elwood here? Can shift in attitude result in shift in one's life like how it's claimed to be? I'm dying to know. Or maybe Elwood's death already hints me the answer.
The moral of this story is painful. Elwood - the boy that kept Dr. King words in his heart got shot while running away, as if the plot twist of his future wasn't harsh enough (he was about to be a college student but because of an imbecile charge he found himself in Nickel. However, this is just an example of injustice miscarriage for black people).
I can't help feeling resentful for the black. Meanwhile, I also remind myself that life doesn't owe me anything, including fairness. Realizing this helps me acknowledge that I have power to control how I react to situations, not the situations themselves. Am I being over-optimistic like Elwood here? Can shift in attitude result in shift in one's life like how it's claimed to be? I'm dying to know. Or maybe Elwood's death already hints me the answer.
Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
5.0
What I learned from this short book is to be more purposeless, as if a child with no intention, to get rid of willful thinking, to pay attention not on the goal but the arch. Now to some people these might be well-known advice. But reading these from this one somehow makes it sink deeper inside me. Other books made the same attempt but they were all futile.
Honestly, it's hard to rate this book. However I believe in order to describe something so abstract like artless art and zen while still managing to keep readers from being skeptical is a truly amazing work.
Highly recommend for those that don't mind Zen way of thinking.
Honestly, it's hard to rate this book. However I believe in order to describe something so abstract like artless art and zen while still managing to keep readers from being skeptical is a truly amazing work.
Highly recommend for those that don't mind Zen way of thinking.