Happiness, meaning and mindfulness

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.”Andrew Wilkinson

Walden

“Thoreau's account of two years in deliberate simplicity is not, Popova has argued, a book about retreating from the world but about attending to it more carefully. She reads the chapters on time, economy, and morning as a sustained argument for wakefulness.”Maria Popova

“I have been deeply influenced by the existentialist and eminent psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who wrote the perennial best seller Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential books I've ever…”Frank Martin

When Things Fall Apart

“Pema Chödrön's teaching on groundlessness — sitting with discomfort rather than leaping to resolution — is one Brown returns to explicitly in discussions of uncertainty and courage. She has recommended it on Unlocking Us as the book she reaches for when clients are in the middle of a freefall.”Brené Brown

Radical Acceptance

“Tara Brach's integration of Buddhist psychology and Western therapy resonates with Brown's emphasis on self-compassion as a prerequisite for courage. Brown has recommended it specifically for readers who recognize their patterns of self-judgment but cannot locate a way out.”Brené Brown

The Courage to Be Disliked

“This book is oddly written (it's translated from Japanese), but it changed my life.”Andrew Wilkinson

“I've been really enjoying Anthony de Mello's book Stop Fixing Yourself on this topic. It's a serious bucket of cold water over the head for anyone who's an obsessive striver.”Andrew Wilkinson

The Good Life

“a new book by Robert Waldinger, the study's current director, and it drove this home.”Andrew Wilkinson