24. The Whole-Brain Child | Daniel Siegel, Tina Bryson | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
At one point or another, all parents have come face-to-face with children who lose their temper inexplicably and become what adults view...
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23. How to Think Straight About Psychology | Keith E. Stanovich
Francis Bacon’s 1605 seminal The Advancement of Learning proclaimed “that knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and, therefore,...
22. Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Everyone has two biological families in their life. One is our family that we grew up with, our parents, brothers, and sisters. The other...
21. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics | Richard H. Thaler
What's the first thing you think about when you hear 'economics'? Most people think of Wall Street, finance, saving money, or statistics....
20. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about | Malcolm Gladwel
How do we understand a stranger? Is it the way they hold your gaze? The intonation of speech? The furrowing of their brow? Their peculiar...
19. The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Today I’m going to start straight off with a quote: “I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so...
18. The Halo Effect | Phil Rosenzweig | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
When you first start a business, you see all these books and articles that appear each year following a formula that usually leads you to...
17. The Second Machine Age | Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Human society is at a critical juncture in the second machine age, and the Earth and its peoples are bearing the impact of this period of...
16. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds | Charles Mackay
It’s the year 1595, and an old woman, all wrinkled and weary, has found herself in the custody of angry townsmen, armed with pitchforks...
14. Atomic Habits | James Clear | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Maybe you’ve realised, maybe you haven’t, but across our daily life, more than half of our behaviors are dictated by habits. If you open...
13. The Martian | Andy Weir | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
What would you do if you were stranded on Mars? For those of us who aren’t astronauts, it’s rather difficult to conceptualize this. After...
12. The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Have you ever been infatuated with someone? Were you obsessed with another person, where they occupy your thoughts every minute of every...
11. Solaris | Stanislaw Lem | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
“5...4...3...2...1… Blast off!”, this in effect is the beginning of the book Solaris. We are catapulted in a rocket away from the comfy...
10. The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
If I were to ask you, “What time is it?”, surely you could answer. Children are taught how to read the hands on a clock at an early age,...
9. The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
It's been such a long time since I read a fairy tale or something similar. But today I turned to a book that I read a long time ago, and...
8. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
An IQ is for life, right? “Our intelligence score is fixed, we are stuck with it as we are stuck with our genes. Some are genetically...
7. Mozart: A Life | Paul Johnson | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Do all great musicians die young, and was Mozart the first of the mould for the modern superstar? What do Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim...
6. Power | Jeffrey Pfeffer | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insight
Most people have not seriously thought about how to achieve power in life. Most people may say: “I have no desire for power, I just want...
5. Positive Discipline | Jane Nelsen Ed.D | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Strictness or Permissiveness. Order without freedom or Freedom without order. No choice, or unlimited choice. It sounds like extremes for...
4. Dune | Frank Herbert | PodNu Podcasts & Book Insights
Why do people read novels? What are the big draws for settling down and poring over pages of textual fantasy? Have a think for a...