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13 Books Like Man’s Search for Meaning (For When You Need a Why)
Viktor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning in nine days. He’d just come out of Auschwitz and Dachau. His wife, his parents and his brother were dead. And…
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13 Books Like Give and Take by Adam Grant (Givers Really Do Win)
Adam Grant’s Give and Take split the working world into three kinds of people — givers, takers and matchers — and then dropped the finding everyone remembers: givers…
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12 Books Like Ikigai for a Long, Happy, Meaningful Life
Ikigai is a small book about a big question: what gets you out of bed in the morning? Héctor García and Francesc Miralles went to a village in…
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12 Books Like The Secret — Including the Real Secret to Success
The Secret sold thirty million copies on one promise: think about what you want, and the universe will bring it to you. A lot of people read it…
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12 Books Like Think and Grow Rich (That Go One Step Further)
Napoleon Hill spent twenty years interviewing the richest men in America and boiled it all down to one sentence: whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can…
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What the heck is GRP?
If you’ve found your way here, there’s a pretty good chance you’re wondering exactly that. What the heck is GRP? GRP stands for The Golden Rule Paradox. And…
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How to Love Your Kids When You’re Too Busy
Modern parents are busy. Work, bills, errands, emails, appointments, household responsibilities—and a phone that makes it possible for all of them to follow us everywhere. Then there are…
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GRP and the Military
From the new book GRP The Golden Rule Paradox: chapter 4 GRP is everywhere. What can the military teach us about happiness, success, and living a better life?…
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Why Talking to Strangers Makes Us Happier
From Chapter 1 of the new book GRP The Golden Rule Paradox If you had a choice during your morning commute, which would you choose: a train car…
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The Science
Being Selfish Is Bad for Your Health — and the Science Backs It
For thousands of years, selfishness has been treated primarily as a moral failing. Science is giving us another reason to avoid it: It is bad for your health.…
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