My favourite books.
About giving meaning.
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Emotional Agility – Susan Davis
If you want to get unstuck, embrace change, and to thrive in work and life, Susan David helps you to better relate to yourself and the world around you in this practical and science-backed book about emotions.
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Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
We cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
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Everything is fucked - Mark Manson
Don’t hope for better. Just be better.
This is a book about values and how to utilize suffering for growth.
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Ikigai - Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
If you’re looking for your reason to live, Ikigai may be the place where you find balance. It’s the place where your needs, desires, ambition’s, and satisfaction meet.
About change of habits and becoming more effective in life.
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The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday
Inspired by stoicism, this book focusses on the things you can control, let go of everything else, and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher.
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Atomic Habits - James Clear
If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system.
Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits. -
Getting Things Done - David Allen
Having difficulty with managing your attention and productivity?
This book gives you practical advice on how to be appropriately engage with what’s going on.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
A step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
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The Upside of Stress - Kelly McGonigal
Get insights about how to cultivate a mindset that embraces stress, and activate the brain's natural ability to learn from challenging experiences. This book is not a guide to getting rid of stress, but a toolkit for getting better at it—by understanding, accepting, and leveraging it to your advantage.
About relationships.
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Culture Map - Erin Meyer
Learn how to decode how people think, lead, and get things done across cultures.
Get an understanding of how to navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
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Attached - Amir Levine
Discover how an understanding of adult attachment can help us find and sustain love.
Determine what attachment style you, and your partner (or potential partner) have, and follow a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections with the people you love.
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The Road Less Traveled - Scott Peck
Timelessly written in 1986 yet still applicable.
This book recognises that life is difficult. It enables you to explore the nature of loving relationships with yourself and others while leads you toward a new serenity and fullness of life: the road less traveled.
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The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity - Esther Perel
Esther Perel invites readers into an honest, enlightened, and entertaining exploration of modern marriage in its many variations.
Fiercely intelligent, The State of Affairs provides a daring framework for understanding the intricacies of love and desire.
About millennials.
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Twintigerstwijfels & dertigersdilemma's - Nienke Wijnants
A book about the important choices millennials have to make from their 20s onwards: Study further, have a career, start your own business, or take that trip around the world first? Living together, getting married, having children, or not (yet)?
(Only available in Dutch)
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Crazy Busy: Keeping Sane in a Stressful World - Thijs Launspach
Why are our lives so hectic? Have we all become workaholics? Why are we so susceptible to FOMO (the Fear Of Missing Out)? And most importantly, what can you do to cope with the stress in your life and prevent a burnout?
In this book you’ll learn 10 practical ways, how you can cope with stress and create more peace in your life.
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MillenniALL - Sean Purcell
Abou the challenges and opportunities facing millennials, and why we are entering The Age of the Millennial.
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The Conflict: woman and mother - Elisabeth Badinter
Modern mothers are bombarded by advice. The pressure to be a perfect mother is overwhelming, and it's scaring women away.
In The Conflict Elisabeth Badinter, France's foremost feminist thinker, questions why our ideas of motherhood have been skewed by unachievable expectations that compromise notions of self and womanhood.