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The Courage to be Disliked! How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness (Courage To series)

Author: Ichiro Kishmi and Fumitake Koga Publication Date: January 2019

2025-09-25 2 min read Sincheenz

Books that claim in their title to give you the answer to real happiness or say it is that one book that will change your life are the last ones I pick up. It sounds inflated and like a marketing gag trying to entice a very desperate audience. I heard the Courage to series at an Alfred Adler seminar. In recent years, I have developed an interest in different schools of psychology and human behavior in general. Continue reading

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Man's search for Meaning - The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Author: Viktor Frankl Publication Date: January 2011 (Special Edition)

2024-11-24 3 min read Sincheenz

Anguish is unique to each person. No one can fully understand another’s pain, and it’s not helpful to tell someone there are others suffering more. However, it is comforting to know that those who have endured far greater pain have found ways to cope, and that gives you hope that you can manage yours as well. This book is not about what you need to do to attain bliss and be in a constant state of happiness. Continue reading

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Outlive - The Science and Art of Longevity

Author: Peter Attia Publication Date: March 2023

2024-04-20 3 min read Sincheenz

This is a book on longevity. It explains how we can maintain fitness and health well into our 80s,90s and even later. The book focuses on tactics for prevention over cure, suggesting that conventional medicine, or Med 2.0, is less effective as it addresses diseases only after they’ve manifested, often after years of development. Therefore, the author advices focussing our attention and treatments on prevention, which he elaborates on and refers to as Med 3. Continue reading

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Grit - Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success

Author: Angela Duckworth Publication Date: May 2016

2024-02-03 2 min read Sincheenz

The book is divided into 2 parts. In the first part, the author explains how excellence and genius can be achieved through Grit. How we as a society are so obsessed with the naturals and geniuses with high IQs, and we give too little importance to the efforts put into achieving excellence. What good is talent when you don’t put it to use, and yet when we hear of naturals, we get excited? Continue reading

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The Antidote

Author: Oliver Burkeman Publication Date: November 2012

2023-11-27 2 min read Sincheenz

Like his other book, “4000 Weeks”, the author has managed to convey intensive and thought-provoking concepts with levity and humor. The book starts off by poking fun at motivational speakers and explains, through funny anecdotes, the consequences of trying to avoid negative thoughts and only thinking positively. It moves on to explaining Stoicism and why embracing the negative would be far easier than avoiding it. This was something new to me, and it did make sense. Continue reading

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