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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2020 |
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Grand: A Grandparent's Wisdom for a Happy Life by Charles Johnson What it is: A moving, stylistically complex reflection on life stages and the artistic process, written as advice to the author's grandson but filled with observations we can all benefit from.
Author alert: MacArthur fellow, scholar, and political cartoonist Charles Johnson also wrote the novel Middle Passage, which won the National Book Award in 1990. | | Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We... by Alyson J. McGregor, MD What it's about: The male bias at the heart of modern medical knowledge and how women can fight for the care they need.
Topics include: Pharmaceutical research with male-only subjects, nontraditional stroke and heart attack symptoms, disparities in pain management, and psychiatric misdiagnosis.
You might also like: Caring for Equality by David McBride; Everything Below the Waist by Jennifer Block. | | Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, PhD What it's about: The scientific underpinnings of habit formation, with insights about how to manage your expectations, motivations, and emotional responses.
Why you might like it: The advice presented here is well-grounded in research but is written in an inspiring tone and broken down into practical, approachable steps. | | When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink What it is: an accessible and thought-provoking look at how time (and our perception of it) impacts us in unexpected psychological, biological, and economic ways.
Topics include: how the time of day might affect the decisions we make; the wide-ranging ripple effects of afternoon energy drops; how to best harness the power of your own circadian rhythm.
Want a taste? "If you want to measure the world’s emotional state, to find a mood ring large enough to encircle the globe, you could do worse than Twitter." | | Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do by Eve Rodsky What it's about: The unequal expectations faced by many working women and how they spend their "free" time, with a focus on common disparities in household labor and ways to shrink the gap.
Why you should read it: With the rapid increase of people working from home, these issues could not be more important or timely. | | Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson Tate What it is: A no-nonsense guide to managing your time, changing your mindset toward getting work done, and building work habits that stick.
What sets it apart: The focus on customizing your approach to productivity; the author's willingness to engage with less commonly discussed obstacles like guilt and shame.
Includes: A 28-question Productivity Style Assessment, to help you determine your productivity type (Prioritizer, Visualizer, Arranger, or Planner) and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each. | |
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