Building a Better You Reading List

[mm168]

Here's a link to the syllabus. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/ic...labus-2008.htm

[mm168]

A while back Harvard offered an online course about happiness taught by professor Tal Ben-Shahar. It was, and is, one of the most popular and widely taken classes. At some point it was taken down from their free online catalog, presumably to make money. Fortunately for us, like all things born of this digital age, nothing on the internet is ever really gone. You can find all his lectures on youtube. Here's a link. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8C81DF39EF74EF87 It's lengthy, and I have yet to make it through all of them, but it's suppose to be a really good class. You can find all the companion books on Amazon if you really want to get into it.

[Mop]

I really enjoyed Shawn Achors books and his rhoughts about happiness. He suggest some simple rules ro do every day to make you more happy. A very simple one I do often is to write down 3 things I was happy about that day, just before bed. Very easy and makes your mind look for the good stuff instead of the bad. (I'm not religious, but I think ir is one of the reasons people get something out of religion).

[XSteveO]

Love me some Tao Te Ching and have the Wayne Dyer version with meditations. I tend to spend 15 minutes a day meditating but enjoy the silence of the experience now so I don't much listen to it anymore. I agree with you though as it was an important part of changing my inner dialogue.

[Shakes]

Every day I read pieces of both The Tao Te Ching and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Both speak directly to the soul and stir beauty and peace within.

"Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know." -The Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell's Translation

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not fact. Everything we see is perception, not Truth" -Meditations

"Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been." -Meditations

[XSteveO]

While I have lots and lots of books I'll be recommending along the way, I'm going to be starting this off with the one I am currently reading: Get Off Your But. When you see Sean you'll understand everything. Hope has never been bigger than this man. You can do everything and anything, BUT what's stopping you?



Here's a long video but you'll get an amazing perspective after you watch it. Its worth the 78 minutes. Every second of it

[XSteveO]

This is something I've been doing in posts since I first started posting on any forum about any pheromone. I have read countless books and reports on self-improvement and want to share with the community. There are so many valuable books out there and then a whole lot of not so great. I'd like to see the community add their favorites and a short synopsis of why and how it has helped you.

I'm of the opinion this thread will be one of the most valuable threads in the entire forum. I thought about creating a channel (category) just for self help but also believe that might muddle the forum to much. For now it stays down here in the off-topic area but as a sticky. I would say that if its a book on game, for either sex, please use discretion when posting here. This is an area that everyone should be able to benefit from. That's not to say I didn't completely benefit from game books and have shared many with female friends. Just keep that in mind when posting. It should be something you would encourage a man or woman to read for self-improvement.