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Zen: The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno

Zen: The Art of Simple Living Book Review Shunmyō Masuno is the head priest of a 450-year-old Zen Buddhist temple in Japan, an award-winning Zen garden designer for clients all over the world and a professor of environmental design at one of Japan’s leading art schools. The book is about “subtle shifts in your habits …

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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations Book Review Very few rulers of humanity have written books. Meditations written by Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of Roman Empire (A.D. 161–180), is a must read for all readers keen on understanding Stoic Philosophy. Marcus wrote these thoughts over many years as reminders to himself on how to deal with the stress and pressures …

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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit Book Review Our choices made every single day are not the result of well-considered decision making process. They’re habits. Habits that we have acquired consciously or unconsciously. In The Power of Habit, business reporter Charles Duhigg translates current behavioural science into practical self-improvement action. According to the author, 40 percent of …

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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile Book Review Antifragile is one of the most thought-provoking books of recent times and brutally challenges conventional wisdom, our biases, and our view of the world. I promise you won’t look at academics, doctors, managers, Uber drivers and many others the same way. The book provides you with new lenses to view the world. …

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