Things That Make You Go Hmmm Book Review Podcast

Things That Make You Go Hmmm Book Review Podcast episodes:

• 09.18.2021

  Book Review of Hello, Habits by Fumio Sasaki

  The internationally best-selling author of Goodbye, Things shares insights and practices to help you become the best version of yourself.Fumio Sasaki changed his life when he became a minimalist. But before minimalism could really stick, he had to make it a habit....

  
• 07.24.2021

  Book Review of Master Your Emotions by Thibaut Meurisse

  Struggling to let go of negative emotions? Discover a step-by-step process to living a happier, more fulfilling life. Weighed down by negativity? Are painful emotions keeping you from doing the things you love? Author and founder of WhatIsPersonalDevelopment.org Thibaut Meurisse...

  
• 03.21.2021

  Book Review of Small Habits Revolution by Damon Zahariades

  Finally! Develop Good Habits That Stick!Do you find yourself trying to adopt good habits only to abandon them down the road? Are you frustrated because you seem unable to develop them in the first place?You're not alone!Most people fail when they try to incorporate...

  
• 03.07.2021

  Book Review of The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)

  In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life.During her multibook investigation into understanding human...

  
• 02.07.2021

  Book Review of The Cult of Smart by Fredrick deBoer

  Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Preposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a...

  
• 01.24.2021

  Book Review of Break'Em Up by Zephyr Teachout

  Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the...

  
• 01.10.2021

  Book Review of The Art of Saying No by Damon Zaharaides

  Stop Being A People Pleaser! Learn How To Set Boundaries And Say NO - Without Feeling Guilty!Are you fed up with people taking advantage of you? Are you tired of coworkers, friends, and family members demanding your time and expecting you...

  
• 12.13.2020

  Book Review of Never Eat Alone

  Do you want to get ahead in life?Climb the ladder to personal success?The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else...

  
• 11.15.2020

  Book Review of Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat

  Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he...

  
• 11.01.2020

  Book Review of How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us...

  
• 10.19.2020

  Book review of How To Be an Imperfectionist by Stephen Guise

  What’s the New Way to Cure Perfectionism?From an early age, kids are taught to color inside the lines, and any color that strays outside the lines is considered to be a mistake that must be avoided. Perfectionism is a naturally...

  
• 10.05.2020

  Book Review of Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy

  If you’re relying on willpower alone to help you lose weight, improve your relationships, or achieve more at work, you’re doomed to fail. The environment around us is far too powerful, stimulating, addicting, and stressful to overcome by white knuckling....

  
• 09.21.2020

  Book Review of Everything is Fucked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson

  From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counter-intuitive guide to the problems of hope.We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and...

  
• 09.06.2020

  Book Review of Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

  Most of us spend our days handling a deluge of pressing issues. We’re so accustomed to managing emergencies as they strike that we often don’t stop to think about how we could prevent crises before they happen. Why stop at treating the...

  
• 08.14.2020

  Book Review of The Motivation Myth by Jeff Haden

  It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-worker loses 20 pounds, or a friend runs a marathon while completing a huge project at work, we assume...

  
• 07.26.2020

  Book Review of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

  From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful,...

  
• 07.13.2020

  Book Review of Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin

  Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives. So if habits...

  
• 07.02.2020

  Book Review of Me and White Supremecy by Layla Sayad and So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeomo Oluo

  Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. In So You Want to Talk About...

  
• 06.14.2020

  Book Review of Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

  Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling...

  
• 05.31.2020

  Book Review of indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

  You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At...

  
• 05.17.2020

  Book Review of #Influencer: Building Your Brand in an Age of Social Media

  Every one of your favorite influencers started with zero followers and had to make a lot of mistakes to get where they are today--earning more money each year than their parents made in the last decade. But to become a...

  
• 05.03.2020

  Book Review of I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

  At last, for a generation that's materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi's 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want...

  
• 11.17.2019

  Book Review of The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer

  Introducing the practical and inspirational guide to incorporating Kaizen and its powerful principles into one's daily life. Rooted in the two thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching--"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"--Kaizen is the...

  
• 10.20.2019

  Book Review of The War On Normal People by Andrew Yang

  From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic...

  
• 08.25.2019

  Book Review of 80/20 Your Life! How To Get More Done With Less Effort And Change Your Life In The Process! By Damon Zahariades

  Achieve More, Create More, And Experience More Success And Joy - While Taking Less Action!Do you often feel like you're spinning your wheels without getting anything done? Do you feel tired, overwhelmed, and frustrated that you're not accomplishing your goals?If so,...

  
• 06.03.2019

  Book Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

  Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying our...

  
• 12.17.2018

  Book Review of Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki

  Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he’s just a regular guy who was stressed at work, insecure, and constantly comparing himself to others—until one day he decided to change his life by reducing his possessions to the bare...

  
• 07.30.2018

  Book Discussion of The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph

  In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make “personal success” virtually meaningless....

  
• 06.18.2018

  Book Discussion of Better by Atul Gawande

  The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the...

  
• 03.25.2018

  Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

  inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?The...

  
• 02.12.2018

  Book Discussion of Ignore It!: How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction

  With all the whining, complaining, begging, and negotiating, parenting can seem more like a chore than a pleasure. Dr. Catherine Pearlman, syndicated columnist and one of America's leading parenting experts, has a simple yet revolutionary solution: Ignore It! Dr. Pearlman's four-step...

  
• 01.28.2018

  A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

  One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the...

  
• 12.04.2017

  Book Discussion of America the Anxious by Ruth Whippman

  After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly perplexed by the American obsession with one topic above all others: happiness. The subject...

  
• 03.26.2017

  Book Discussion of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  In a series of essays, written as a letter to his son, Coates confronts the notion of race in America and how it has shaped American history, many times at the cost of black bodies and lives. Thoughtfully exploring personal...

  
• 03.12.2017

  Book Discussion of Urban Monk by Pedram Shojai

  We all struggle to discover satisfaction and contentment in the modern world and yet the more gadgets we buy, the more things seem to get worse. What are we all missing? What will it take for us to find our...

  
• 08.28.2016

  Book Discussion of 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

  After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. After learning about research that suggests meditation can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain, Harris...

  
• 06.05.2016

  The Great Courses: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  Why is it so hard to lose weight, stop smoking, or establish healthy habits? Why do couples argue about the same issues over and over? Why do so many people lie awake at night, stricken with worry and anxiety? Why...

  
• 02.29.2016

  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.  The...

  
• 02.01.2016

  Why Marriages Succeed or Fail by John Gottman

  Psychologist John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last. Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, and maintain your own long-term relationship.This breakthrough book guides you through a series of self-tests designed to...

  
• 11.27.2015

  Book Discussion of Talking to Crazy

  In his book, Just Listen, Mark Goulston shared his bestselling formula for getting through to the resistant people in your life. Now, in his breakthrough new book Talking to Crazy, he brings his communication magic to the most difficult group of all—the...

  
• 10.26.2015

  Book Discusstion of The Blank State by Steven Pinker

  "In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: the Blank Slate (the...

  
• 10.12.2015

  Book Discussion of Mindset Carol Dweck

  Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but...

  
• 09.28.2015

  Book discussion of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Shell

  From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the...

  
• 08.31.2015

  Book Discussion of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion by Sam Harris

  For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From multiple New York Times bestselling author, neuroscientist, and “new atheist” Sam...

  
• 08.03.2015

  Book Discussion of Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman

  When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. Yet,...

  
• 07.19.2015

  Book Discussion of The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely

  In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing...

  
• 07.05.2015

  Book Discussion of Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax

  Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from...

  
• 06.21.2015

  Book Discussion of The Social Conquest of Earth by E.O. Wilson

  Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the...

  
• 06.07.2015

  Book Discussion of The End of Men by Hanna Rosin

  In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how this new state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or...

  
• 05.25.2015

  Book Discussion of The Willpower Instinct

  The first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. After years of watching her students struggling with their choices, health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., realized that much...