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Reading a Book

Author: Cal Newport

Review: A page turning book that will have you considering ways to minimize your use of social media and screens in general. Gives a great overview of the impact we have had on ourselves and how to change it.

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Author: Christopher Avery

Review: A book that helps put your perspective on your metacognition, awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes. It does so by providing a structure by which to funnel your problems through a process, the author claims, everyone goes through in sequence. After awareness of a problem, we externally blame and justify, then we internally shame and oblige to act in certain ways as a result.

All four of these steps have to do with shifting responsibility, but not being it. The Responsibility Process helps the reader understand what responsibility means in the context of problems they apply to the book and whether they are on the right side of some of their issues. Definitely worth a re-read when you’re dealing with a new set of life issues to confront.

Author: Mark Manson

Review: A humorous and yet pointed take on why life is too short to be giving a fuck about anything more than what you truly care about. The author gives his take on his own experiences and how he grew out of his own problems while giving advice on things he picked up along the way.