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The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

Book Review by Emily Porter

In her new book, The Awakened Brain, Miller shares the results of the scientific research she has conducted finding that individuals with a spiritual or religious belief or practice have happier and healthier lives, as well as healthier brains.

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I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

The pressures associated with poverty and discrimination are more widespread, and more urgent, but that doesn’t mean that the pressures placed on more privileged children aren’t a problem or that they don’t have societal consequences—or that they shouldn't be talked about.

Blog / ChangeThis

Debunking and Dismantling Disempowering Beliefs

By Shirley Davis

Overcoming our disempowering beliefs isn’t easy. It takes a significant amount of work, introspection, and time. Moreover, it isn’t a “one and done.” You don’t just go through this process once and be finished with it. Rather, it’s an ongoing process of steps that we must revisit over and over. We must, therefore, commit ourselves to long-term change.

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Paradise : One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

Book Review by Emily Porter

When the fires cease and the ash settles, the towns and those who have survived pick up the pieces and look to a future after surviving an American wildfire. Johnson shows the destruction, trauma, and the stress these fires put on the land, and on the families who live in areas that come within the fire’s path.

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Books to Watch | August 10, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter

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Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Eloquence of the Sardine is meant to intrigue, to entertain, and to inspire any sort of interest in the ocean and its creatures. It counters the out of sight, out of mind indifference we usually treat them with by opening our eyes to their world.

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

By Porchlight

Time is our biggest worry: there is too little of it. The acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life.

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This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

Book Review by Emily Porter

This Will All Be Over Soon is an incredibly sincere memoir of a woman trying to grapple with grief, the pandemic, and how to move forward from the depths of life's woes all while falling in love.

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The State of the Designer

By Laura Fish, Scott Kiekbusch

In this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The Designer’s Guide to Product Vision, Laura Fish and Scott Kiekbusch discuss the history of design and why it's so important for designers to take a seat at the table of company leadership.

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The Infinite Staircase: A Technology Strategist Investigates the Business of Living

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Geoffrey Moore's new book offers a wealth of insight and understanding, perhaps even a strategy for living, but his very writing of it is a thankful reminder that we don't have to be just one thing.