New Year's Resolutions: Read More, Learn More

Career & Professional Development

As we start a new decade, now is a good time to stop and reflect on how to make 2020 a productive and fulfilling year. I find listening to inspiring podcasts and reading interesting books helps me think about how to live my life more impactfully.

So, I am sharing some podcasts I currently subscribe to and books I am excited to read this year:

Podcasts
The Science of Success
How to be Awesome at Your Job
Good Life Project
WorkLife with Adam Grant
The Happiness Lab

Books
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies." - George R.R. Martin
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
The Happiness Equation
​Range: While Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Ditch the Act: Reveal the Surprising Power of the Real You For Greater Success
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
All You Have to Do is Ask
Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely
Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change in the Nonlinear Age 

Preorder
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

“Research is showing pretty convincingly now that happiness is really within us, it’s not outside of us. It’s in what we do. It’s sort of how we act, how we think every day of our lives.”
- Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside & author of The How of Happiness
Read some of her interesting research on positive affect (happiness) and success here.