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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 4.33 — 1,243,646 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 — 141,193 ratings — published 2021
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,889 ratings — published 2021
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,272 ratings — published 2023
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.91 — 263,044 ratings — published 2018
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.37 — 855,302 ratings — published 1946
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,494 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 — 21,160 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,233,047 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.17 — 577,159 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 — 243,603 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 — 116,231 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 — 556,048 ratings — published 2012
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.28 — 745,532 ratings — published 1982
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.21 — 473,526 ratings — published 1988
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.86 — 82,422 ratings — published 1830
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.19 — 856,258 ratings — published 2008
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.02 — 983,541 ratings — published 1939
Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.16 — 185 ratings — published 2019
The Element Of Style (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.28 — 102 ratings — published
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.36 — 365 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 4.09 — 1,663 ratings — published
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.91 — 550 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 4.33 — 3 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 — 159,222 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 4.54 — 56 ratings — published 2025
The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,533 ratings — published 1776
The Happiness Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.65 — 180,379 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 3.39 — 155 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 — 2,075 ratings — published
Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,059 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 — 2,744 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 — 7,257 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 3.80 — 2,320 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 — 4,376 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 — 1,496 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 — 5,838 ratings — published 2019
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,050 ratings — published 2019
The Second Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,914 ratings — published 2019
The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,611 ratings — published 2018
Principles: Life and Work (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.10 — 66,093 ratings — published 2017
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.79 — 32,345 ratings — published 2018
Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments (Bloomberg)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,152 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,730 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 — 672 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 — 42,336 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,181 ratings — published 2016
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 3.96 — 18,181 ratings — published 2013
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,966 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as intellectual-growth)
avg rating 4.08 — 470,757 ratings — published 2012
“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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