Blog / ChangeThis

The Influence of Optimism: From Good Parenting to Great Leadership

By Kelly Rippon

Living optimistically requires practice. Pausing and intentionally searching our brains for the best-case scenario can be frustrating at first, but over time and with repetition, we naturally gravitate toward the most hopeful outcome, and it eventually becomes a pattern.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | May 25, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros

Blog / Staff Picks

The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Author and natural navigator Tristan Gooley passes down the wisdom of the weather, decodes the clouds, defines the many shades and densities of fog, and much more in his new book, The Secret World of Weather.

Blog / Book Giveaways

Be Who You Want: Unlocking the Science of Personality Change

By Porchlight

From cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Christian Jarrett, a fascinating book exploring the science of personality and how we can change ourselves for the better.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

A wonder-filled survey of the world humans have inhabited and created for ourselves in which many disparate elements of the author’s personal life come together with our collective past and present.

Blog / ChangeThis

Big Little Breakthroughs: How Everyday People Become Everyday Innovators

By Josh Linkner

The very act of playing it safe has become the riskiest move of all. … To fight back, everyday innovators push themselves to explore the unexpected. They discard obvious ideas in favor of unorthodox ones.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | May 18, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros

Blog / Book Giveaways

A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain Into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

By Porchlight

The New York Times bestselling author and renowned clinical psychologist teaches women how to transcend their fears and illusions, break free from societal expectations, and rediscover the person they were always meant to be: fully present, conscious, and fulfilled.

Blog / Editor's Choice

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Being able to frame the problems we face as sentient beings in an often hostile world has been a key ingredient in human evolution, and may still be the most important ability we have today.

Blog / Staff Picks

The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Something as simple as a bakery string tied around the wrist can be the most romantic gesture just as easily as a trip to Ikea can induce someone to consider driving both parties into the East River. Authors and podcast hosts Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink describe both in this ten-year-long love story told from alternating perspectives.