The goals of reading for the year 2025:
A= 28 books
B= 24 Books
C = 20 Books
Therefore the goal for reading for the first trimester of 2025 is 4-6 books to be completed.
Jung – The Key Ideas By Ruth Snowden
Wanting to dive into Jung’s mind and his fascinating process of individuation, I found this book stood out among the hundreds of others on Amazon.
The book covers the early work and the subsequent progress of Jung in a language that is accessible without the usage of so many technical terms, and if there was any, it’s explained.
It goes deep into Jung’s fascination with the spiritual, the numinous, the inner world and the self-realization of the unconscious.
I intend to use it as an entry point to explore more of Jung’s works, with the goal of developing a method to integrate my shadow.
Introduction to cognitive science by The Great courses
For the longest time I wanted to learn about cognitive science, luckily for me, I found this interesting up-to-date course which is available on Audible, which I immediately exchanged one point of credit to get.
The creator of this work, aims to answer so many interesting questions related to cognitive Science such as:
What are emotions, why do we feel them?
How do we make decisions?
How does our brain affects our visual perception of the world?
Among the topics the audiobook covers is exploring the black box problems, showing the different takes of psychology, Neuroscience and AI on this problem.
The audiobook promises to not be dry by involving the listener to engage in interesting experiments related to perception and expectations, working memory and so on.
That’s not all, there is going to be portion of this learning material that talks about the different brain diseases and how they affect our cognition.
Overall I think this is a perfect introduction to cognitive science that looks both entertaining and informative.
The Science of Storytelling By Will Storr
From the description of the book: In this scalpel-sharp, thought-provoking book, Will Storr demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, leading us on a journey from the Hebrew scriptures to Mr. Men, from Booker Prize-winning literature to box set TV. Applying dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to the foundations of our myths and archetypes, he shows how we can use these tools to tell better stories – and make sense of our chaotic modern world.
This book covers topics such as:
where does a story begin?
World-making in fantasy and science fiction
the anatomy of the self, views and culture
Plots, meaning and endings
a step-by-step guide for storytelling
I think this book would help me to hone my storytelling which can be helpful to my plannedroutine work.
The Sleep Solution By Chris Winter
Sleep is important and what a thing that says that you want to improve it? Reading a book to optimize it.
And what could be a better book that one which is written by an expert in sleep who dealt with 10000 patients who helped them to rest better at night.
The goal of the book is not providing us readers just tips and tricks about making sleep better but rather making us understand sleep in a deeper way so that we have radical improvement of our sleep.
Some of the topics the book talks about:
- The mechanism of sleep and the way it gets affected by light and food
- Understanding the effects of sleep pills and how to handle your sleep without them
- How to incorporate naps in your daily routine
- Handling sleep issues related to sleep disorders and such
And the most important aspect of all, Increase awareness of the effects of sleep, everything we do from the mood, immune system, our brain functionality, heart and blood pressure, so if we don’t take care of sleep, imagine the damage we would have done on our bodies.
Powerful listening By Kwame Christian
Communication is part talking and part listening but without listening we can never have a complete communication.
This audiobook of powerful listening by Kwame Christian comes handy to the problem of not being a good listener it’s packed with 6 lectures, half hour each and they are essentially aimed to:
- Making you a better listener
- Sharpening the ability to read the body’s cues
- Exploring different biases that prevents us from listening
- Asking powerful questions
- Remind you that to improve listening is a lifetime journey.
Email marketing by Matthew Paulson
I would like to quote to start by quoting a passage from the book:
Did you know that a study from the Direct Marketing Association found that businesses earn an average of $43.00 for every $1.00 invested in email marketing?
In other words, email marketing is proven to produce a 4,300% return on investment (ROI).
As a content creator, that reason by itself makes email marketing worth learning about.
And to help doing that we are using a book written by someone who holds a PhD in applied digital marketing, I aim to read a book to learn how to build respectful email lists. Optimizing my strategy and writing convincing copies to reach as many people to take the value out of my future products and courses.
The book focuses on helping the reader to:
- Select the right emailing service
- The art of getting people to sign up to your newsletter
- Monetization of the newsletter
- Dealing with the legal aspects of email marketing
- Learning about the cold reach strategy
All of the 5 mentioned points are important for me to spread my work to as many people as possible, because they would be missing a lot if they didn’t master their daily habits, right hehe? 😉
If you have any reading challenge, I would like to know about your selection of books!
