4 November 2021

November book recommendations

Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein: Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. The authors offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. They will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that comes with a tidy desk and mind.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53071025-joy-at-work

Füredi Júlia: ELÉG! - Kiégtem. Most hogyan tovább?

How many times do you feel that it’s ENOUGH? That you can't take it anymore, you can't take on anymore? That you simply don’t have the energy and aren’t in the mood for anything? That you’re constantly tired, yet you can’t fall asleep because as soon as you turn off the lights, your thoughts start racing? That if something else happens or someone says something, you’ll explode because your nerves are already on the edge? How you are unable to concentrate and forget everything? That if things go on like this your relationship, your family will be the cost?  You seem to be confident, but inside you feel exhausted, empty, frustrated, sometimes desperate. You try to pretend everything is okay, but you feel something is really not okay. What is this: depression, chronic fatigue, panic?

None of them. These are typical symptoms of burnout. No problem, you think, you’ll start meditating or exercising. Please don’t, as it might not help. It’s important to know whether you’re just on your way to burnout or up to your neck with it, because there are different ways you can stop the process or recover from it.  In this book you will find everything you need to know about burnout. Based on your symptoms it can help you identify where you are, and learn about the Phoenix Program to help you avoid burnout or recover from it. From the offered methods and options, you can choose the ones that can be best integrated into your life. You can also learn how to help as a relative, colleague, or leader when you see the signs of burnout.

Vujity Tvrtko: Aloha - Túl minden határon

The Reader is holding Vujity Tvrtko's most exciting, colorful book.  You can travel around the world, learn about the unique wonders of Hawaii, the realm of peace and tranquility. After seeing the pits of hell on Earth, Tvrtko suddenly decided to move to Paradise, where, in his spare time he takes care of turtles as a volunteer ranger, listens to ukulele music all day, and surrenders to the real Aloha. Together with the reporter, they walk along the Pacific coast and roam Gyuri’s home jungle. The Hungarian carpenter got tired of the concrete jungle and bought himself a real rainforest, where he lives among parrots, orchids and waterfalls on the island of rainbows.

Not only can you get to know Hawaii, but Tvrtko also sets out to explore Alaska, reaching the only city on earth with all its residents living in one building, yet the city still has a school and post office, shop and laundry and even a chapel. The amazing secrets of Russian Alaska are revealed where everyone listens to balalaika music and speaks only Russian, in America.  You can take a peek into Alcatraz, the world’s toughest prison ever, where the dreaded mafia boss Al Capone was also imprisoned. Tvrtko reopens the Chernobyl file as he returned to the zone after two decades to reveal the secrets still hidden. Finally, there is a twenty-one-minute, special video recording of a shocking yet astonishingly powerful true story, and a sentence that will never be forgotten by anyone who embarks on this journey with Tvrtko on this captivatingly adventurous trip from Honolulu to snow-capped Alaska, from Chernobyl to China and Chicago, from hell to Earthly Paradise.

Müller Péter: Anyám titkos könyve

"Two years ago, we opened an old suitcase in the attic where we found tape-recordings. It turned out that my mother recorded her life’s hidden secrets on a tape recorder. She sat in her dim room for months and told the stories. How she was madly in love with a family man as a little girl, how she fell in love with my father, what a bitter wedding night they had in an ice-cold train, how she lost her virginity and became pregnant with me, what she felt when I was in her womb and I gave her signs of life.

We found treasure in the suitcase.

My kids typed in the cassettes and I read the manuscript.

I got a crying fit.

I've never cried like this before. I screamed.

If she heard it in the afterlife, it must have shaken her, too.

She didn't tell me her memories. But to herself. She didn’t even hope I would ever find this amazing monologue. "In my own theater, not only do I play the lead role of my life - but I'm also the listener of my own story."

I came across this treasure as an old, renowned writer.

She also sometimes calls me, "My son, the writer."

I started working on it to make her voice a book.

She was a great narrator. Her book is full of humor, serenity, laughter - and tragedy.

I consider this book to be my life’s most beautiful work, our work.

I DIDN'T THINK I WOULD EVER BE A CO-AUTHOR OF MY DEAD MOTHER.

I think it’s unprecedented for a writer to see himself through his mother’s eyes.

The eyes she saw me with was the gaze of a wise woman.

Great teaching lies in all her tales.

Her secret book teaches us how to live happily in hell as well.

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