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Inner Excellence Book Club Questions & Exercises (Jim Murphy)

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Jim Murphy’s Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life isn’t your typical self-improvement book. It blends mindset training, emotional awareness, and spiritual discipline into a practical guide for performing—and living—with purpose. Whether you’re an athlete, a leader, or simply someone striving to grow, Murphy’s lessons on focus, courage, and letting go of control offer plenty to reflect on. To spark meaningful discussion, here are 15 thought-provoking book club questions (plus some exercises at the end) to help you dig deeper into the book’s key themes. 15 Book Club Questions Exercise: Overcome Self-Focus With Love,

Simon Sinek Book Club Exercises to Discuss & Put Into Practice

Have you read Simon Sinek’s books? Are you looking for discussion questions to use individually or with a group? Author Simon Sinek gives us a lot to talk about and act upon. We’ve put together several exercises based on the content in four of Sinek’s books. The exercises include questions that will help you discuss and implement each book’s ideas. Continue reading for Simon Sinek book club questions that will allow you to get even more out of Sinek’s books.

Getting the Love You Want: Exercises to Apply the Book’s Principles

Are you unhappy and have no idea why? Are you and your partner drifting apart? Can anything be done to rescue a relationship in a downward slide? We all have a deep-rooted need to be loved, but often a rift opens between our romantic partners and ourselves. Over time, we may even resent the traits in our loved ones that initially brought us together. The book Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples explores these ideas and offers solutions. Keep reading for two Getting the Love You Want exercises that will help you apply the book’s principles.

Mere Christianity Discussion Questions: Apply C. S. Lewis’s Ideas

Would you like to internalize the concepts in the classic book Mere Christianity? How can you make them come alive in your life and ministry? In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis sets out to explain and defend Christian beliefs to a skeptical modern audience. Through his essays, Lewis—whom many Christians regard as an important lay theologian—argues for the existence of God, the divinity of Christ, and the benefits of a virtuous life. Continue reading for several Mere Christianity discussion questions that will help you apply the book’s ideas to your own life.

The Body Keeps the Score: Discussion Questions for a Book Club

Did you read The Body Keeps the Score? Are you looking for some questions that will generate thoughtful discussion? We tend to think of trauma in its most extreme forms, such as PTSD. But nearly everyone is likely to either suffer from trauma or know someone who does. In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk explains that the physiological toll can be tremendous. Read on for The Body Keeps the Score discussion questions that will help you understand and internalize the book’s ideas and apply them where appropriate.

The Things They Carried: Questions for Thoughtful Discussion

How do you handle stress? Do you stick to your principles when the going gets tough? What effect do stories have on you? The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien tells the stories of a small company of American soldiers serving in the Vietnam War. Through the narrative, the book blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, leaving the reader unsure as to what is fact and what is myth. Continue reading to see several The Things They Carried questions that you can use to get more out of your reading.

Freakonomics: Book Club Exercises for a Thoughtful Discussion

Would you like to understand your fellow humans better? When is conventional wisdom wrong? What if you thought like an economist? Authored by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything applies the tools of economics to explain real-world phenomena that aren’t conventionally thought of as “economic.” The book contains fascinating implications and applications. Continue reading for discussion questions and a quiz that you can use with your Freakonomics book club.

The Four Agreements Exercises: 21 Discussion Questions

Do you tend to take things personally? Are you always making assumptions? Are you a gossip? The world today is full of suffering and cruelty. From birth, we are trained to accept society’s rules as “the way it is.” But, agreeing to these rules stops us from becoming our true selves. The good news is that there’s a different way to live. Use these The Four Agreements exercises to help you implement a new approach to life.

15 Who Moved My Cheese? Discussion Questions to Ponder

When you experience change, is it distressing or rewarding? Do you tend to overanalyze? Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that demonstrates in practical terms how to handle change better and avoid pitfalls. You can do this by practicing a few key principles: anticipate and prepare for change, overcome fears, envision success, and enjoy change. Continue reading for Who Moved My Cheese? discussion questions that will help you apply the book’s principles.

12 Rules for Life: Discussion Questions for Book Club

Are you looking for book club or discussion questions about Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life? How can you apply the book’s lessons to your own life? In 12 Rules for Life, Peterson argues that there is a right and wrong way to conduct your life. In contrast, he rejects the ambiguity of moral relativism, the idea that good and evil are subjective opinions and that every belief has its own truth. Here are some 12 Rules for Life discussion questions to ponder after reading the book.

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