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He's the author of two very good books. Black Privilege and shook ones. I've read both, they're excellent and he's got a third book coming out in May called Get Honest or Die Lying.

It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth.

For then you won't tire and give up if you aren't busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed.

Soon, we're going to talk about self-help books. Whether it's The Secret or The 48 Laws of Power or something else, these books are everywhere.

Blue Zones have been very influential in the nutrition and lifestyle medicine space. So the idea behind Blue Zones is that these are sort of pockets around the world where people have an unusually long lifespan compared to others.

Dan Buettner is a person who became famous for effectively riding their bicycle lots of interesting places and founding a company, a marketing company off the back of that.

And so he's gone out and found Loma Linda. I should add, the CDC measures Loma Linda for life expectancy, and it's pretty average.

While he was there, he started writing The Wealth of Nations. It took him 10 years to finish.

Smith was describing what he saw around him. It sounds simple and shockingly, it really sort of is. There was private property, there were firms and those firms wanted to make profits.

Are we missing out if we decide to listen to Moby Dick as an audiobook while we commute over the course of a month instead of sitting down and reading it every day when we get home from work?

the psychologist who literally wrote the book on Attention Span. The book is called Attention Span.

But this summer, we actually decided to do an Anna Karenina book club.

This summer, we're basically breaking down Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. And we're doing every two weeks, we're reading a different part. So if you're familiar, it's a massive book, it's an eight part book.

I think we both had this feeling that one, I mean, it's one of those books that like you have to read before you die: like we both had felt like, oh, we want to read this and it might be fun to do like a book club version since it's a doorstop.

It's just a fun, juicy, it's a romance. And I think having other people go on that journey with you, having other people read it alongside you really helps you enjoy it a lot more.

I'm looking at my bookshelf as we speak and I can see a copy of Radical Candor by Kim Scott.

Tim Higgins wrote a book about Elon. It's called Power Play, Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century.

Dana Mattioli is the journal's senior reporter on tech investigations. And I am the author of The Everything War, Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.

And then there's the more cerebral films, you know, Get Out, Us, Jordan Peele's films.

But again, when you have It and Get Out and Split that year, all great movies, 1.16 billion.

Liberties features independent, stylish, and sometimes controversial essays by significant writers. Not like your average writer. Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa called Liberties a triumph for freedom of thought.

Liberties opened my mind to subjects unfamiliar and points of view unexpected. I am hooked.

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And he's a fast reader, so he brings along one really big book to sustain him on vacation, which is Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton.

And this was an age now of a lot of sentimental literature. Americans came to love stories of the Old South. And, of course, it's there in Gone With the Wind, the most, still maybe the most famous movie ever made.

For example, in The Iliad, the Greek poet Homer, this is an oral epic, always refers to Achilles as swift-footed Achilles, a phrase that helps the listener simultaneously have an easier time remembering who Achilles is and also his sort of defining trait. So when they had assembled and were gathered together, swift-footed Achilles rose and spoke among them.

I really love the book The State of Affairs By Esther Perel

She really talks about the importance of delving into what the cheating meant for the person who cheated

You know, in The Devil Wears Prada, the scene about cerulean. What you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue. It's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean.

And blue sweaters sort of demonstrates that dynamic, and that's existed for a long time.

In 18 days, her memoir My Black Country comes out right as Beyonc has all the universe interested in country music and asking where black people fit into it.

Songwriter Alice Randall, I spoke to her in her home in Bill Mead Nashville.

My Black Country is the name of her memoir and it comes out next month along with a compilation of Alice's songs all performed by black women musicians.

I have written an article about that in American songwriter magazine and it seemed to me very harsh criticism for that article.

My name is Meg Jay. I'm a developmental clinical psychologist and the author of The 20-something Treatment and The Defining Decade.