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Building a new habit isn’t just about willpower—it’s about rewiring your brain. Robin Sharma breaks down the neuroscience behind lasting change. He argues that real transformation happens in three distinct phases over roughly 66 days. Understanding these stages can help you stick with new habits when things get tough. Read on to discover what happens in your brain during each phase and how to navigate the journey to lasting change.
What if the secret to a productive day starts at 5 a.m.? Robin Sharma breaks down the 20/20/20 formula—a simple method that divides your first hour into three focused segments. Each 20-minute block targets a different aspect of your well-being. This approach promises to help you start each morning with clarity, energy, and purpose. Read more to explore how each period works and how it might change the way you start your day.
Each of us has something special inside we were meant to discover, develop, and use to shape a better life and world. When you incorporate the behaviors and tips in Robin Sharma’s The 5 AM Club, you’ll deepen your understanding of your unique genius and true self so you can master your creative and productive potential. Continue reading to learn what the 5 AM Club is and why its members stand apart from the crowd.
We’ve put together discussion questions for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Before her death, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took samples of her cancer cells without her
We’ve put together discussion questions for Born a Crime by Trevor Noah that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis Born a Crime is Trevor Noah’s memoir about growing up in South Africa during and after apartheid. The title refers to the fact that Noah was born in 1984 to a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss-German father at a time when such a
We’ve put together discussion questions for Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis Hillbilly Elegy is JD Vance’s 2016 memoir chronicling his upbringing in the white working-class Appalachian culture of Middletown, Ohio, and Jackson, Kentucky. Vance describes growing up amid poverty, family instability, and dysfunction—including his mother’s struggles with drug addiction and a revolving door of father figures. Despite
Why do we fall in love, feel jealous, compete for status, or sacrifice for family? Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal offers a theory: These behaviors are hardwired into us by evolution. Published in 1994, this book connects biology, anthropology, and psychology in an attempt to explain everything from romantic attraction to moral judgment. Keep reading to see how understanding our evolutionary programming might help us make sense of our own motivations and better understand the people around us.
We’ve put together discussion questions for The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls that you can use with a book club, a class at school, or a team at work. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls about her unconventional and often chaotic upbringing. Walls recounts growing up with brilliant but deeply dysfunctional parents: her father Rex, an alcoholic dreamer who filled his children’s heads with grand plans (including
We’ve put together discussion questions for Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari that you can use with a book club or a class at school. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis Sapiens traces the history of our species from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa—estimated at roughly 300,000 years ago to the present day. Harari identifies three major revolutions that shaped human history: Throughout the book, Harari explores how shared myths—including religions, nations, corporations, and money—have
We’ve put together discussion questions for Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson that you can use with a book club, a class at school, or a team at work. We include sample answers, book club activities that will help you get more out of what you’ve read, and recommendations for more reading if you like this book. Book Synopsis Just Mercy is Bryan Stevenson’s memoir about his career as a young lawyer defending those most desperate and in need—the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of the criminal justice system. The book centers on