It’s hard to succeed in a fast-paced life but Diwan has all the tools and tips you need to get you started with October’s book recommendations.
- Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
By Pema Chodron
From the author of When Things Fall Apart, comes Comfortable with Uncertainty, which offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, it offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path.
2. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
By Susan David
Emotional Agility is a four-step approach that allows us to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. In her more than twenty years of research, Susan David has found that no matter how intelligent, resilient, or creative people are, when they ignore how situations or interactions make them feel, they miss opportunities to gain insight, getting hooked by thoughts, emotions, and habits that prevent them from reaching their full potential.
3. How to Be an Artist
By Jerry Saltz
Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds.
4. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms
By Vishen Lakhiani
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind is a blueprint of laws to break us free from the shackles of an ordinary life. It makes a case that everything we know about the world is shaped by conditioning and habit. And thus, most people live their lives based on limiting rules and outdated beliefs about pretty much everything—love, work, money, parenting, sex, health, and more—which they inherit and pass on from generation to generation.
5. Equilibrium
By Alyaa Sadek
From the author of Soul Quest comes a self-help book Equilibrium. Helping shed light on self-awareness and the stability that helps you grow to become a more truthful version of your own self. Equilibrium will help readers make life-changing decisions for the better, understand their emotions and reach higher levels of spirituality within themselves.
Teeming with full-color artwork from visionaries ancient and modern, this beautiful and useful book will help artists of all kinds—painters, photographers, writers, performers—realize their dreams.
