See your life through different lenses
See your life through different lenses
Suggested books
“Atomic Habits” by James Clear was on my huge books list since at least a couple of years, but I started reading only when a friend of mine asked me an opinion (it’s not that I am more intelligent than…
The last book I read in the last couple of days is one of those I can group in what I call “the meta-content”: like similar study-related materials, this one is about a skill we always take for grant, since…
I just finished reading “Memory” (3rd edition) by Baddeley, Anderson and Eysenick. A great book (great in content, but also in number of pages: more than 600) suggested by a friend of mine, working with Cognitive Psychology. Professor Baddeley’s studies…
The book I read last week is “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence“, by the American psychiatrist Anna Lembke. The author may appear a little bit moralist and judgy and there are minor controversial issues on some “scientific”…
There are fictional and “Nonfiction” books and there are “practical” books. This New York Times bestseller is something like a well-ordered chain of guidelines, but not just a set of instructions to tell you how to build a life the…
The book I read this week is “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker, an English scientist, and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. As a former military officer, I still remember the long periods of…
The book I read this week is “Peace is every Step: the Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life” by Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk born in 1926. I also read other books written by him, like No…
The book I read last week is “Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders“, a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. Even if it’s “just a novel”, like many other books it explores new worlds in a…
The book I read this week is “Autobiography of a Yogi” (1946) by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952), an Indian Hindu monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions to the teachings of meditation. This book is included in several lists…
The book I read this week is “No Mud, No Lotus – The Art of Transforming Suffering” (2014) by Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk born in 1926. “Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a…
