The Happiest Baby on the Block
The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer By: Harvey Karp Published: 2015 Read: 2020 Summary Why do babies cry so much? One of the reasons is because babies are born immature. The brains of
Tag: Non-fiction
Brain Rules for Baby
How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five By: John Medina Published: 2010 Read: 2020 Summary What does it take to raise a happy, smart kid with a decent moral compass? The answer is simple: lead
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
Why being a great parent is less work and more fun than you think By: Bryan Caplan Published: 2011 Read: 2020 Summary Parenting absorbs ever more time and people wrongly believe that happiness and having (more) kids are incompatible. Based mainly
The End of Average
How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness By: Todd Rose Published: 2016 Read: 2020 Summary: Minimizing errors. Businesses, schools and governments assess people based on their relationship to the average. Using the group average to determine the norm
Prepared
What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life. By: Diane Tavenner Published: 2019 Read: 2020 Summary: What do you enjoy doing? What are you good at? What is the best way to pursue these interests (and contribute to society)? Schools are
Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion By: Robert B. Cialdini Published: 1984 Read: 2019 Summary: When we make decisions, for various reasons (lack of time, uncertainty, complexity, etc.), we rely on short-cuts: conditioned, automatic responses. This book explores six mechanisms (reciprocation, consistency,
Solve for Happy
By: Mo Gawdat. Published: 2017. Read: 2019. Summary: A former Chief Business Officer at Google X tries to formulate an algorithm for happiness in the wake of the tragic loss of his college-age son. An attempt to find meaning in
The Happiness Hypothesis
Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom By: Jonathan Haidt Published: 2005. Read: 2019 (again). Summary: Formulating and pursuing meaningful goals in life can be difficult. We often have (overly) negative views (a negative bias can be helpful in identifying threats
Anaerobics (Pre-Publication Booklet)
Intensity, Strength, Freedom, and Health Pre-publication Introduction By: Mark Baker Published: 2020 Read: 2020 Summary: Anaerobics proposes that most of the problems of human health come from being too domesticated. We are no longer exposed to the challenges that kept
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
Adventures of a curious character By: Richard P. Feynman Published: 1985 Read: 2020 Summary: A collection of anecdotes from the life of Richard Feynmann, the Nobel prize winning physicist. Or, what happens when you turn stubborness, curiosity, raw intelligence and