Archive for the ‘book review’ Category

After a blogger has established himself and his blog over the course of a couple months, the next logical step seems to be writing an ebook. Recently Everett Bogue of Far Beyond the Stars wrote his first ebook, The Art of Being Minimalist (reviewed here). Now, David Damron of Life Excursion, and more recently, The [...]

I’ve read a lot of half-baked ebooks that were essentially PDF’s full of blog articles. I don’t like wasting money to read something that I could have read for free with minimal effort. While I concede that the medium of an ebook is conducive to blog-esque content, I expect ebooks to feel polished. When an [...]

There are few people in the world as qualified that people turn to for advice and insight on happiness than the Dalai Lama. As the living spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, the Dalai Lama has seen and lived through the dislocation of his country and people at the hands of the Chinese. Despite the [...]

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the pioneering individual behind the psychological concept of “flow” or “optimal experience.”  I’ve been meaning to write a review of his book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, for several weeks. Yet, I just can’t seem to figure out how to go about doing so.  This book is so filled with information [...]