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I want to share with you my list of favorite books, each one holding a special place in my heart. These are the stories that have inspired, captivated, and challenged me in different ways. I hope that as you dive into these books, you’ll experience the same sense of enjoyment and discovery that I did.

Buddhism and Mindfulness

• Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill – Matthieu Ricard
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times – Pema Chodron
• Why Meditate: Working with Thoughts and Emotions – Matthieu Ricard
• Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering – Phillip Moffitt
• Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life – Thich Nhat Hanh
• 10% Happier How I Tamed The Voice In My Head – Dan Harris
• The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology – Jack Kornfield
• Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices – Thich Nhat Hanh

Activism

• Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change – Nick Cooney

Personal Finance

• The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs – Jill Schlesinger

Health and Medicine

• Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande

Stoicism

• The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
• Stoicism 101 – Erick Cloward
• Right Thing, Right Now – Ryan Holiday
• The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph – Ryan Holiday

Memoir

• The Choice: Embrace the Possible – Dr. Edith Eva Eger
• When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
• Wave: A Memoir – Sonali Deraniyagala
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

Fiction

• The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Education

• The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – Jonathan Haidt

Philosophy and Psychology

• The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness – Ichiro Kishimi
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness – by Robert Waldinger M.D., Marc Schulz Ph.D
• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing – Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck PhD

 

 

“the biggest prison is in your own mind, and in your pocket, you already hold the key: the willingness to take absolute responsibility for your life; the willingness to risk; the willingness to release yourself from judgment and reclaim your innocence, accepting and loving yourself for who you really are – human, imperfect, and whole…. You can’t change what happened, you can’t change what you did or what was done to you. But you can choose how you live now.” – Dr. Edith Eva Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.” – Mark Twain