5 Life-changing books YOU MUST READ in 2022

Curated from: Clark Kegley

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Personal Development

Psychology

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Dopamine Nation

An increasing problem with our increasing distractions
Our attention span is less and less
More temptations than ever
Most people associate dopamine with pleasure
Dopamine is actually strongest in the anticipation of the reward
Have you ever achieved a goal and thought "is this all there is?"
It gives more juice to the old saying "it's not the destination it's the journey"

45 reads

Loss chasing

Do gamblers get more pleasure when they lose or win?
A study in "Dopamine Nation", showed that gamblers secrete almost the same amounts of dopamine whether they win or they lose.
A phenomenon called 'loss chasing'
The chase to retrieve your losses are what makes it exciting
Maybe the urge for some to continually start from zero in the self-help world is akin to loss chasing

31 reads

The One Thing

Is someone doing eight gigs or one gig, what's going to get them further?
The best companies in the world all have one thing, e.g. KFC, Google, Starbucks
The goal of this book is to end multitasking
You feel like you can do two things at once but you actually can't
Doing too many things is the antithesis to productivity
Productivity is about focus
It's so much better to go after one thing

31 reads

Focus is the absence of distractions

GARY KELLER

26 reads

The Essential Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something to be said about old school classics
They have so much wisdom that they had to think through
Be useful
Enthusiasm, zest and passion is when you come alive and do your best work

26 reads

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well