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The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis: A Timeless Warning on Education, Morality, and Human Nature

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis: A Timeless Warning on Education, Morality, and Human Nature

If you’ve ever felt like modern society is losing its grip on what makes us truly human, The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is the book that will make … Read more

How to Think About the Great Ideas Summary: Painful Confusion to Power and 52 Lessons

How to Think About the Great Ideas Summary: Painful Confusion to Power

My struggled with the same modern problemโ€”lots of โ€œhot takes,โ€ not much thinking about great ideas was realโ€”and How to Think about the Great Ideas is basically a practical cure … Read more

How to Read a Book four levels: confusing at first but life-changing

How to Read a Book four levels: confusing at first but life-changing

I used to โ€œfinishโ€ books and still feel weirdly emptyโ€”like Iโ€™d walked through a museum without actually seeing anything. That feeling is not just personal drama: in the United States, … Read more

So Good They Canโ€™t Ignore You by Cal Newport Is the Smartest Career Book

So Good They Canโ€™t Ignore You by Cal Newport Is the Smartest Career Book

So Good They Canโ€™t Ignore You by Cal Newport is the book you reach for when โ€œfollow your passionโ€ has quietly stopped working. Everywhere online weโ€™re told that passion is … Read more

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling: Complete Guide, Themes & Legacy

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling: Complete Guide, Themes & Legacy

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling steps in where many parents, teachers and even faith leaders sometimes falter: it gives children and adults a language for talking about power, … Read more

How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic โ€“ A Personal Exploration

How to Win Every Argument by Madsen Pirie review

Many of us feel our reasoning skills falter in heated debates, and Madsen Pirieโ€™s How to Win Every Argument promises to demystify logic by exposing the fallacies that often defeat us. The book is a … Read more

We Should All Be Feminists book: essential, hard-hitting feminist truths- 10 lessons

We Should All Be Feminists book: essential, hard-hitting feminist truths- 10 lessons

In a world still shaped by invisible rules and inherited expectations, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie arrives like a clear voice cutting through staticโ€”honest, warm, and … Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass Review: No Myths, Empowering, Essential

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer review

In a time when climate headlines toggle between dread and data, Braiding Sweetgrass solves a deceptively simple problem: it shows how to feel responsible for the Earth againโ€”and then makes … Read more

Notes on Being a Man Book Review: Brutal Truths, Practical Hope, and a No-Nonsense Path for Men

Notes on Being a Man by Scott Galloway review

Modern masculinity is being rewritten in real time, and Notes on Being a Man by Scott Galloway is one of the few mainstream books willing to get specific about what … Read more

The Odyssey Summary โ€” Avoid Confusion, Get Clarity with the Ultimate Guide

The Odyssey by Homer

We crave a blueprint for getting homeโ€”after war, after loss, after bad decisionsโ€”and The Odyssey gives one, showing how cunning, hospitality, and memory rebuild a life. It is An ancient … Read more

Wings of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam: Unleash the Untold Story of the Missile Man’s Impossible Journey

Wings of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam

If you feel stuck between ambition and circumstance, Wings of Fire shows how a boy from Rameswaram turned scarcity into Indiaโ€™s space-and-missile renaissanceโ€”without losing humility or hope. It solves the … Read more

Debunking Logical Myths: How Logic Made Easy Clarifies Common Misconceptions

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You by Deborah J. Bennett

Logic Made Easy by Deborah J. Bennett is a transformative book that unravels the common errors in logical reasoning and demonstrates how language often deceives us into making fallacious conclusions. … Read more

A Happy Boy: The Powerful Themes of a Norwegian Literary Masterpiece

A happy Boy book review

Most โ€œcoming-of-ageโ€ stories capture the ache; A Happy Boy solves the harder problemโ€”how a poor child keeps his joy, dignity, and direction while climbing class ladders without losing himself. In … Read more

AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee: A Shocking Look at How AI Will Change Everything

AI 2041 book review

In plain English, AI 2041 argues that ten very plausible AI scenarios โ€” spanning jobs, health, security, and privacy โ€” are coming fast and that our choices, not the code … Read more

Stop Overrating Talent: Why Grit Winsโ€”Duckworthโ€™s Powerful Science Explained

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth review 2025

If your days are a blur of starts without finishes, Grit is the missing engine: the ability to keep aiming at one meaningful target and to keep showing up when … Read more

Unlock Your Potential With Why We Do What We Do: Why The Book is a Game-Changer for Self-Motivation

Why We Do What We Do

Why do people lose their natural spark, curiosity, and energy as they grow older? Why does a child brim with excitement for learning, but an adult employee drags through Monday … Read more

Mastery Isn’t a Mystery: How Peak Reveals the Hidden Code of Greatness

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

Have you ever looked at a virtuoso musician, a chess grandmaster, or an elite athlete and thought, “They’re just born with it”? For decades, we’ve comforted ourselves with the notion … Read more

Boyhood 2014: Unexpected Film that Took 12 Years of Making

Boyhood movie 2014 review

Directed by Richard Linklater Boyhood is the story of a boy, Mason, who went through many familial obstacles to reach his adulthood. Unlike any other film in cinematic history, Boyhood … Read more

Dead Poets Society 1989: Orthodoxy Is The Obstacle To Freethinking

Dead Poets Society 1989 film review

Dead Poets Society 1989 by Robin Williams is a story about an English teacher of Welton Academy and one, Neil, of its students who committed suicide because he could not … Read more

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