Category Archives: Mindset

Happiness by Matthieu Ricard



A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill

I was put onto the audio edition of this book by a colleague from my Toastmasters club during a conversation about what makes us happy. The book is a fusion of eastern Buddhist philosophy and western scientific thinking on what it means to adopt happiness as a lasting state of mind. A key point reiterated here which I hear a lot these days is that true

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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell



The Power of Thinking without Thinking

I found this book about the power of intuition fascinating. Essentially the idea is that when we develop expertise and intuition in a certain area, our intuition can become a more reliable guide than what we end up with by using our analytical thinking. The trick is to know when to trust our snap judgements, and when they are likely to lead us astray or bias us in some way. Often we are quite unaware of

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What You Can Change and What You Can’t by Martin E.P. Seligman



Learning to accept who you are. The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

Martin Seligman is one of my favourite personal development authors. Not only are his books easy to read, but as the founder of the Positive Psychology movement he’s got the academic credentials and professional experience to know what the research says, and what he’s talking about.

I was drawn to this book while contemplating the question: “Just how much can a person

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The Mental Toolbox


Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly aware of how powerfully the way we think influences the way our life goes. Whether it’s our relationships, career, finances, health, well-being, social or spiritual life, virtually everything comes back to our mindset. Cynicism, negativity, lack of faith in ourselves, and limiting beliefs about who we are and what we’re capable of can all get in the way of us having a great life. We often pick up absurdly negative ideas about ourselves through experiences we have as we grow up, and then carry these ideas with us right through adulthood as if they were actually true.

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The Happiness Minute


Our brains are massive networks of tiny neurons, each of which grows when stimulated. Whether your brain learns positive, life-affirming ideas or negative self-destructive ones depends on what you feed it. We learn by repetition on an ongoing, sustained basis.

David Ambrose’s Happiness Minute gives you the opportunity to reflect on the subject of Happiness for one minute each week. By the end of one year you will significantly increase your own level of happiness, and that of those around you. David’s email audio course makes it so easy.

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The Secret and The Law of Attraction

The Secret (Hardcover)

By (author) Rhonda Byrne



Rhonda Byrne’s book The Secret is a follow-up to the phenomenally successful movie of the same name, both of which describe The Law of Attraction and how to make it work for you in your life. I am a strong believer in the Law of Attraction, even though I don’t go along with much of the new-age mumbo-jumbo in the book and movie.

Attraction is a function of the way our brains work. The universe doesn’t just magically provide whatever we focus on,

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