As the holiday season kicks into high gear, the malls are getting busier and busier and picking out that perfect gift for someone becomes tougher and tougher. No one likes to get caught up in the holiday rush, so…

Arnina Nikitina was shocked. “I felt sorry for the time I wasted trying to succeed without knowing the basics,” she recalls. “I was mad because I didn’t discover them before.” She’s talking about her book Five Laws of Success: “From the beginning of time, there have been laws set in motion that automatically bring…

Laura Ingalls Wilder is known for her series of childrens books depicting life as a pioneer in the American West in the late 19th century. While she wrote 9 books based on her own life, she also wrote one based on her husband’s life called “Farmer Boy”. The book itself, while educating us about how…

 When life gets hard, when things don’t go my way, when a project doesn’t quite work out the way I planned, or when I want to sleep but can’t—like right now—I think of thinkers and leaders from the past and I remind myself that things could be much, much worse.  Friedrich Hayek had to…

The little black book, quite literally, fits into the palm of my hand. And despite its small size, it packs quite a whallop. Plainly titled “Book of Secrets”, this micro-book is a treasure trove of life hacks, trivia, quotes, and “secret information”. Compiled by a team of authors (Lloyd Bradley, Thomas Eaton, Emma Hooley…

One day, an innocent worker goes online and decides to see if there are any tips out in the big wide world on getting more done, more quickly, more often. But soon, the poor sod becomes entangled in a complicated trail of information; a few quadzillion blogs on the subject, millions of books, and…

“Reading fiction is a waste of time.” Have you ever heard someone spout this line of complete and utter bollocks? I’ve rarely heard anything so ridiculous said in my life. Fiction, like all the arts, is an important part of culture; both a reflective distillation of it, and the base elements that form it. Society’s collective…

Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal…

How nice, all those great books that Peter McWilliams put out in the 90s are now available for nothing at his website! Titles like Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life In School — But Didn’t and How To Survive The Loss Of A Love are all included with links to individual chapters and…

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Somewhere after “lose weight”, “stop procrastinating”, and “fall in love”, “read more” is one of the top goals that many people set for themselves. And rightly so: A good book can be…

Goodreads is a a splash of social networking mixed with the library. Goodreads lets you network with other readers to find great reading material and read reviews. If you wonder what other people are reading or if you have a hard time discovering great content, Goodreads looks like the site for…

Riddle of the day: What do you get when you ask a community of lifelong learners to recommend their current favorite reads? Answer: The 3rd Annual A Love Affair with Books, newly hosted for 2007 on Joyful Jubilant Learning. This recent forum, held throughout the past month delivered some truly terrific recommendations. Although the…

“Print Is Dead” – Egon A few years ago I tried out an online book cataloguing site called LibraryThing. It’s still going strong, with an excellent community of readers contributing. aNobii is a newcomer, a clear rival to LibraryThing. It’s feature full and doesn’t come up short in any way. While LibraryThing has most of the…

Speaking of books… Project Gutenberg has been collecting a healthy database of digital books for something like 30 years now. Tonnes of free books, searchable and downloadable; now they have an RSS feed for updates. If you’ve exhausted the already 20,000 full catalog, now you can keep track of new additions through this feed…

A Carmel McConnell book published by Perseus Publishing, 2001, 209 pages. Nonfiction: Business and personal growth.The book premise is that operating a profitable business and maintaining your personal principles are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Upon opening this book my initial reaction was, “Hey, the publishers made a mistake.” The inside jacket of the book is…