We are officially in vacation period and usually, this is an ideal time to take a break from the grind of assignments and recharge. Whether you are headed into your next year of university life or a new stage in your journey, here are some interesting books to help you rejuvenate your mind.
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1. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down : How to be Calm in a Busy World by Haemin Sunim This is a best-selling mindfulness guide where the author guides the reader to a path of learning to be more mindful despite the demands of a fast paced world. |
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2. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert What is creativity? Where do we draw inspiration from? This book inspires you to find creativity where you are and to create without fear. |
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3. Better than before: mastering the habits of our everyday lives by Gretchen Rubin Gretchen Rubin gives useful and easy ways to master our lives by changing our habits. |
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4. Translating Happiness: a Cross-cultural Lexicon of Well-being by Tim Lomas [Ebook] A wonderful exploration of well-being concepts in non-Western cultures and the various insights we can learn from them. |
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5. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb [Available on OverDrive] A therapist explores what therapy actually means and what it can tell us about our lives through her own experience as a patient. |
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6. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders [Available on OverDrive] The author decided to stop shopping for a whole year and made some discoveries about her own life and what you would need to thrive. |
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7. The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf [Available on OverDrive] The author embarks on the journey for happiness and if it is really more difficult to achieve in today’s modern world. |
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8. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth [Available on OverDrive] This book illustrates how we can develop an appropriate mindset to achieve successes through the concept of pure grit. |
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9. The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time by Allen Gannett [Available on OverDrive] This book breaks down the misconception that creativity is not something that can be controlled and teaches us to engineer our own creative moments. |
The books in this list can be found physically in our libraries, online via our various subscribed digital platforms or on OverDrive. Whichever medium you prefer, we hope you find these books useful during this period to jumpstart various areas of your life here in NTU.
