Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Without affection for ourselves, without softness on the inside, without being kind to ourselves, we will always be tired.”

The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi

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My coworker and direct supervisor who is also a friend saw that I was spiraling a bit this past year and decided to get me The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi for Christmas. Between work and personal life things all hitting the fan in what felt like a non-stop no-time-for-breathing pattern I was losing it a little. She had read it and it spoke to her and she had begun implementing pieces of it into her personal and professional ethos and while she and […]

The first step to letting go is not feeling obligated to finish a crap book

Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

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CBR14 BINGO: Mind, because this book is about training your mind to “think like a monk.” Also, my mind was greatly relieved when I decided I didn’t need to finish it. I went into this book with complete sincerity. I’d been feeling extremely stressed and caught up in too many pointless non-problems, so when I remembered we had a copy of Think Like a Monk, I thought my problems were over! I even vowed to read carefully, not rushing through in an effort to finish […]

How we make our own unhappiness

The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness by Paul Watzlawick

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This is a self-help book for people who scoff at self-help books. A guide through complex issues for people who claim they don’t need a guide. It’s funny, clever and only slightly pretentious. In short: what popsci should be like. Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian psychologist whose main field was human interaction/communication and its complexities. He introduces his theories in this book as well, how we communicate on two planes for example, one object based and one relationship based and how it makes clear communication […]

Adding F*ck to the title makes it seem deeper

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck should be used in marketing classes as prime example of what you can achieve with proper positioning. This book contains some pretty basic self-help advice (decent advice, for the most part) but appeals to a new audience by including fuck in the title. People who scoff at self-help are apt to pick it up and think, “Hey, this guy swears, he must be like me, not like those ultra touchy, feel-gooders who have a Ph.D. in Musicology but […]

If you believe in success you’ll be relieving your stress

Top Dog by Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

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I bought this solely on the strength of the collaborators’ Nurture Shock, a book which was completely eye-opening for me, but whose shocks have diminished as the counter-intuitive truths have entered the mainstream (i.e. don’t praise children for their intelligence, praise their effort because the former is seen as intrinsic whereas they have control over the latter). Didn’t even know what this one was about when I bought it, I just wanted more of the same type of research and unexpected results. I wasn’t disappointed. […]



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