The 4 Minute Read
Hello there! Nik with The 4 Minute Read. This week, we have 3 great books to help you build a relentlessly positive mindset, better understand mental health, and find the courage to go after your creative dreams! Here they are:
Time to broaden our horizons!
Hot Off The Press
| | The Greatness Mindset
by Lewis Howes After a devastating wrist injury tragically ended his professional football career early and overnight, Lewis Howes was down and out. Broke and depressed, he slept on his sister's couch for most of the next 1.5 years. Then, he met a mentor at a Toastmasters event, and things slowly picked up from there. After building and selling a LinkedIn networking business, Howes now runs one of the most successful podcasts in the world: The School of Greatness. His newest book, The Greatness Mindset, compiles the tools and exercises he used to stay relentlessly focused, positive, and optimistic along the way. Some, he learned from his guests. Others, he developed himself. If you want to discover your Meaningful Mission and chase it with a consistently positive everyday spirit, read this summary. |
Quote of the Week
"Grasp your mission securely but hold the mechanism loosely. Don't let the how stop you from focusing on and pursuing your why."
— Lewis Howes
The Big 3 From the Book
1. Craft your Meaningful Mission Manifesto by combining passion, power, and a problem. 2. Fight off self-doubt and 3 big fears with small daily actions. 3. Develop a Greatness-Mindset-in-Motion to keep going until you achieve your dreams. |
A Book Brought to Life
Last week, we published our summary of legendary psychologist Jonathan Haidt's brand-new book, The Anxious Generation. Today, we're proud to present you the video version.
Haidt has analyzed why depression and mental health issues have risen so dramatically in the last 15 years. He sees 2 main root causes: fearful parenting and "the phone-based childhood."
In the book, Haidt describes 4 foundational harms we expose our children to when we "overprotect them in the real world and underprotect them online." Thankfully, there are 4 ways we can fix it — plus a bunch of things we can do as adults, too, to improve our individual and collective mental health.
Here's what you'll learn in today's video summary:
- 4 foundational harms threaten our kids' mental health.
- With 4 foundational reforms, we can keep both technology & overprotection in check.
- Use 6 spiritual practices to improve your kids' and your own mental health.
If you want to understand the modern mental illness epidemic and discover ways to improve your (and your kids') personal wellbeing, watch this video.
Dusty But Brilliant
| | Big Magic
by Elizabeth Gilbert When she wrote Eat, Pray, Love, a deeply personal memoir of love, loss, and reinventing herself, Elizabeth Gilbert faced every creative stumbling block you can imagine. The fear of being judged, the fear of failing, the fear of not being good enough... After she finally managed to finish and ship the project, she decided others might benefit from how she tried to handle her obstacles along the way. The result is Big Magic, a book that'll show you how to find the courage to pursue your creative dreams — and that doing something new and authentic doesn't always have to be scary. If you want to bring a creative project to life against the odds, read this summary. |
The Big 3 From the Book
1. Let your fears coexist with your passions. 2. Give yourself permission to create. 3. Keep your day job to fuel your creative affair. |
The Meme Shelf
It's always one or the other, isn't it? 😩
There are a million good reasons to read. Here's one of them:
Reading can make you feel, absorb, understand, internalize, and accept even that which words alone cannot express. It's the magic of conversation + imagination that happens entirely in your mind that does the trick.
Happy reading,
-Nik
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