37 Best Quotes from “Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare”
“Although clinical research has been conducted on narcissism as a disorder, less is known about its effects on victims who are in toxic relationships with partners with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Individuals with this disorder engage in chronic...Top 12 Best Quotes from Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
What is Toxic Positivity? Toxic positivity (#Ad) is the belief that we should always maintain a positive outlook, even when we are struggling. Life can be hard, and bad things happen. People experience loss, pain, and challenges in their lives, and those problems...Top 60 Best Quotes from “Essentialism” by Greg McKeown
Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less (#Ad) Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your...Top 45 Best Quotes From “The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled (#Ad) The Road Less Traveled A New Psychology of Love, Values, and Spiritual Growth, published in 1978, is Peck’s best-known work, and the one that made his reputation. It is, in short, a description of the attributes that make for a...Top 140 Best Quotes from “101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think” by Brianna Wiest
(#Ad) 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, the global bestseller and social media phenomenon, is a collection of author Brianna Wiest’s most beloved pieces of writing. Her meditations include why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative...Top 40 Best Quotes from “Effortless” by Greg McKeown
Not everything has to be so hard. In our modern world we try to be high-achievers because we have been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. If we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. If...Best 70 Quotes from Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
Overview Peterson’s original interest in writing his last book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, grew out of a personal hobby of answering questions posted on Quora; one such question being, “What are the most valuable things everyone...95 Best Quotes From The Laws of Human Nature
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene, is “the definitive book on decoding the behavior of the people around you”. Even though we are all human, we often don’t understand what drives people to feel and behave the way they do. In The Laws of Human...Top 30 Best Quotes from “The Organized Mind”
Daniel Levitin The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestselling popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published in the United States and Canada in 2014. It is...Top 40 Best Quotes from “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World”
In his book, Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, former Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy argues that loneliness is the basis of the current crisis in mental wellness and is responsible for the increase in...Top 42 Quotes from Think Again by Adam Grant
Photo by Rob Schreckhise on Unsplash “Think Again is a must-read… In an increasingly divided world, the lessons in this book are more important than ever.” –Bill and Melinda Gates Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know is...How Not to Take Things Personally? | Frederik Imbo
I loved this Ted Talk about not taking things personally by Frederik Imbo About Frederik Imbo Frederik Imbo studied theatre at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and has acted in lots of television series. He founded Imboorling and now has over 15 years’ experience...Top 85 Best Quotes from “Quiet: The Power of Introverts”
In her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so
David Epstein’s BYU Speech “The Path of Most Resistance: How to Learn For a Changing World”
I read Davis Epstein’s book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World last summer and I really liked it a lot. The book makes you rethink about the prevalent idea that specialization is the right way to build your career. Perhaps for some it actually...WHEN COLLABORATION MAY KILL CREATIVITY
If you had gathered the same people who created Linux, installed them in a giant conference room for a year, and asked them to devise a new operating system, it’s doubtful that anything so revolutionary would have occurred.
Top 40 Quotes from The Coddling of the American Mind
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the authors make the case that our culture has embraced three Great Untruths in the past ten years or so: The Untruth...13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin
Everyone has the ability to build mental strength, but most people don’t know how or don’t give enough importance to it. People spend a lot more time talking about physical strength and physical health, but much less time on mental strength and mental health.
If You Regularly Say “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way” You May Lack Empathy
According to an article on Inc.com if you regularly say “I’m sorry you feel that way” or some variation of this phrase, you may lack empathy, because “you can’t actually be sorry for the way someone else feels. You can only be sorry for...35 Best Quotes from Atomic Habits by James Clear
“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.” ― James Clear
Top 26 Quotes from “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam M. Grant
“Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam M. Grant. How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In...Top 45 Quotes From “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein is a research-driven study about learning, education and jobs. Range is a book about the value of being a generalist rather than a specialist. Epstein argues that many of the most effective people...Optimism and Pessimism: Two Ways of Looking at Life
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
Top 60 Quotes From “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csíkszentmihályi outlines his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow—a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation.
Top 22 Quotes from When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing By Daniel H. Pink
Pink sets out to “unearth the hidden science of timing” – to uncover it as a significant but unrecognized player in our lives.
Top 32 Quotes from Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates US, which draws on 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation
34 Best Quotes From Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Thinking Fast and Slow is about the two systems in your brain that are constantly fighting over control of your behavior and actions, and explains how this leads to errors in memory, judgment and decisions, and what can be done do about it.
30 Great Quotes From The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business is a book by Charles Duhigg who takes a unique look into the human mind to explore the science behind habit making.
Coronavirus Panic May Be Worse Than The Disease Itself
I am obviously not an expert in infectious diseases, but I wonder whether we aren’t perhaps exaggerating. It is like suddenly people forgot about all the other problems we have in our world and all they can think about is the coronavirus.
Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
According to Gardner’s definition of intelligence, people can have different strengths and the learning experience can be tailored to those differences.
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