YOU COACH YOU
In You Coach You, you'll learn the mindset, skill set and toolkit you need to coach yourself. Practical support on some of the most common coaching challenges. No one can solve your problems better than you can - this book will help you get unstuck.
Helen Tupper is CEO of Amazing If and Sarah Ellis is on the Mayor of London's workspace advisory board. Tupper has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Virgin and BP. Ellis has worked for Barclays and Sainsbury's before becoming a qualified mental health first-aider.
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING
In Auschwitz, Viktor observed that the men who comforted others and gave away their last piece of bread survived the longest. He came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” is a quote from the book.
NO LONGER HUMAN
No Longer Human is the leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel. It tells the story of a young man caught between his aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has been called a forerunner.
An unnamed speaker describes pictures of a man later revealed. The speaker finds it grotesque, even though he knows most people would find him attractive. He explains that certain things about society and humanity never made much sense to him as a child. He is fascinated by Van Gogh's self-portraits, but his classmate Takeichi says they're works of art by a ghost. He decides to become an artist himself and creates disturbing paintings that convey his "true nature," which he otherwise keeps hidden. He spends all of his time drinking, smoking, and running errands for the Communist Party. One night, He goes to a bar and bluntly tells the bartender that he doesn't have much money. He talks to him all night about how unhappy she is. He has been expelled from university and is living under the supervision of an old family friend. He leaves a note with Horiki's address on it, but he doesn't intend to go to her house. Instead, he ends up wandering the streets until he finds someone who seems to care for him. He meets a 17-year-old girl, Yoshiko, who agrees to marry him if he'll stop drinking. He breaks his promise the next day with Yoshiko. Himself and Yoshiko move into a new apartment. He stops drinking and begins to wonder if he might have a chance at happiness. One night, Himself and Horiki hang out on the roof of his apartment. He sees a man raping Yoshiko, but he doesn't interfere. Once again, He decides to kill himself. Before he can do so, though, Horiki and Flatfish take him to a psychiatric ward. The novel's final section returns to the speaker, who explains that the bartender gave him his notebooks.
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
First published in the 1960s and recognized as a classic work of its kind by professionals. An accessible and fascinating read, it offers an insight into how we choose to live our lives.
Author, Richard, argues that dysfunctional interactions can arise when people take on mismatched roles, such as Parent and Child or Child and Adult. The book uses casual, often humorous phrases such as "See What You Made Me Do" to describe his theory of transactional analysis.
RICH DAD, POOR DAD
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the most famous books in personal finance. Many of today's most popular finance gurus cite it as the inspiration for their success. This review will take a look at Robert Kiyosaki's real lessons in this book.
Kiyosaki's stories revolve around and contrast the lessons he received from his biological father and his friend's salesman father. The book explains basic wealth generation in an understandable and inspirational way. It's a solid enough introduction to these concepts (at least for its time).
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