Title: Making a Psychopath Author: Dr Mark Freestone Year: 2020 Publisher: Ebury Press “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.” ―Criss Jami, Killosophy Dr Mark Freestone takes us on a journey to try to solve some of the most dark and ...

Title: The Reason I Jump Author: Naoki Higashida Year: 2014 Publisher: Sceptre “When I'm jumping it's as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky is enough to make my heart quiver. When I'm jumping, I can feel my body parts really well, too - my ...

Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Author: Oliver Sacks Year: 2022 Publisher: Picador “If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.” -Oliver Sacks Dr. Sacks is ...

Title: Ego is the Enemy Author: Ryan Holiday Year: 2017 Publisher: Profile Books Ltd “The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.” -Ryan Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8WoRcR4Qo Our society romanticises ego, “This famous ...

Title: The Gulag Archipelago (1918-1956) Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Year: 2018 Publisher: Vintage Classics “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and ...

Title: The Road to Character Authors: David Brooks Year: 2016 Publisher: Penguin Random House UK "Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning. In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself." -David ...

Title: Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living an Imperfectly Authentic Life Author: Kristina Mand-Lakhiani Year: 2023 Publisher: Hay House Inc "But remember the first simple rule of emotional intelligence: emotions are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong. They just are, they carry an ...

Title: Letters From a Stoic (also known as Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium) Author: Seneca Year: c. 65 AD Publisher: First printed at Naples in 1475 “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” -Seneca. "Letters From a Stoic" is a compilation of writings by Seneca (letters to his friend ...

Title: Stillness is the Key Author: Ryan Holiday Year: 2020 Publisher: Profile Books Ltd "It is by stillness that the ball slows down so that we might hit it. Stillness allows us to persevere. To succeed. It is the key that unlocks genius, happiness, meaning." -Ryan Holiday. The American ...

We are living in an unprecedented era of abundance. Yet so many of us are feeling unsatisfied. Why are we seemingly so insatiable? What is going on inside of us that is making us feel unsatisfied? What is the brain chemistry that makes us feel this way? Is our brain wired for endless insatiable ...