Thick Face, Black Heart
​by: Chin-Ning Chu

This books helps you find your dharma, teaches about success and defeat. Thick Face is the shield, Black Heart is the spear.

Man's Search for Meaning
​by: Viktor E. Frankl

Written in two parts the author chronicles his search for meaning, first, by detailing his 6 years in concentration camps followed by his reflection of them and his implementation of logotherapy on patients. Recommended to help one out of a rut or to get through a difficult situation.

​“Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man’s primary motivational force is his search for meaning”
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
​by: Mark Manson

The author describes that we have a limited number of f*ck’s to give in this life and they should be concentrated on aspects that enrich our life like family, friends, career, and hobbies. Don’t waste them.

​“Manson advises to get to know your limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting our painful truths. We can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.”- 
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12 Rules For Life - An Antidote to Chaos
​by: Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan Peterson describes his unique outlook on life through his experiences with science, religion, psychology, and philosophy. His views on the meaning of life, how to overcome adversity and be successful are well thought out, relevant, and based on experience
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1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back
2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
3. Make friends with people who want the best for you
4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
8. Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie
9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't
10. Be precise in your speech
11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

The Denial of Death
​by: Ernest Becker

The author explains the many different aspects of the human mind and body. How each of us becomes who we are, what we suppress and what we permit. He describes why we are afflicted with traits like neurosis and psychosis. Through the analyzation of research from many psychotherapists like Otto Rank, Sigmund Freud, and others, the author goes into detail about man's immortality project, or the ultimate goal of any human, to have our mind live on forever when our body fails.

“Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974, and a culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than 30 years after its writing”
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