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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,263,382 ratings — published 2018
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.13 — 143,145 ratings — published 2021
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,138 ratings — published 2021
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,435 ratings — published 2023
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.91 — 264,973 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.37 — 864,446 ratings — published 1946
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,587 ratings — published 1962
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,257 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,244,562 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.17 — 581,846 ratings — published 2011
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.78 — 244,361 ratings — published 1974
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,741 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.13 — 558,615 ratings — published 2012
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.28 — 748,516 ratings — published 1982
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,036 ratings — published 1988
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.86 — 82,982 ratings — published 1830
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.19 — 860,236 ratings — published 2008
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.03 — 988,179 ratings — published 1939
The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.85 — 26 ratings — published
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.17 — 289 ratings — published
Korea: The Impossible Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,014 ratings — published 2012
15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,939 ratings — published 2015
Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.15 — 187 ratings — published 2019
The Element Of Style (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.28 — 104 ratings — published
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.32 — 699 ratings — published 2025
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,835 ratings — published
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.89 — 588 ratings — published 2025
North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History (Wisconsin Land and Life)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2009
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.32 — 167,729 ratings — published 2024
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.49 — 67 ratings — published 2025
The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,554 ratings — published 1776
The Happiness Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.65 — 180,793 ratings — published 2009
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.38 — 156 ratings — published
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,097 ratings — published
Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,073 ratings — published 2022
Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,768 ratings — published 2022
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,319 ratings — published 2020
Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,341 ratings — published
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,458 ratings — published 2021
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,505 ratings — published 2020
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,846 ratings — published 2019
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,700 ratings — published 2019
The Second Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,061 ratings — published 2019
The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,619 ratings — published 2018
Principles: Life and Work (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.10 — 66,791 ratings — published 2017
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.79 — 32,457 ratings — published 2018
Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments (Bloomberg)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,154 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,946 ratings — published 2017
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.82 — 674 ratings — published 2016
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,451 ratings — published 2017
“What is Strange and disconcerting about Jesus is the fact that he rarely makes demands. The style of teaching he engages in is not rote on memorization or indoctrination but Socratic, propositional and inductive. The listener is invited to explore and come to a conclusion. It is the desire of Christ for his audience to reach a conclusion and not be told what to think.
Stories, sayings, reversals, parables and other forms of teaching used by Jesus are not good teaching tools for people who seek simplistic answers. Jesus teaches but requires more of a listener. We are invited to join the journey, wrestle with our assumptions, confront our spiritual bigotry and struggle with the humbling mystery and profound profundity of God.
This is HARD faith, especially for the modern reader. We want the speaker to tell us what to think. We want our stories tidy, without complication, and we do not want questions designed to coerce us beyond easy answers. This is the LIFE and MINISTRY of Jesus. He was a walking mobile university, a theological gadfly, a spiritual teacher and Savior who cannot be contained by tradition, conformity or assimilation. Jesus is loose in the world quietly upending all assumptions, ideas and concepts we hold true.”
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Stories, sayings, reversals, parables and other forms of teaching used by Jesus are not good teaching tools for people who seek simplistic answers. Jesus teaches but requires more of a listener. We are invited to join the journey, wrestle with our assumptions, confront our spiritual bigotry and struggle with the humbling mystery and profound profundity of God.
This is HARD faith, especially for the modern reader. We want the speaker to tell us what to think. We want our stories tidy, without complication, and we do not want questions designed to coerce us beyond easy answers. This is the LIFE and MINISTRY of Jesus. He was a walking mobile university, a theological gadfly, a spiritual teacher and Savior who cannot be contained by tradition, conformity or assimilation. Jesus is loose in the world quietly upending all assumptions, ideas and concepts we hold true.”
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“Being drawn to intelligence is like having a secret crush on the brainiest person in the room. It's like finding the smartest cookie in the jar and wanting to devour every last crumb of their knowledge. When someone's intellect shines bright, it's like a beacon calling you to explore the depths of their mind. So, if you're attracted to intelligence, own it! Dive into stimulating conversations. After all, who needs cupid's arrow when you've got the allure of a brilliant mind?”
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