20 Soft Skills Books You Need on Your Shelf

20 Soft Skills Books You Need on Your Shelf

What are essential soft skills you need in your professional and personal life? What are the best soft skills books to read? Soft skills are interpersonal skills that help you work and interact with other people. The most important of these skills that you use in everyday life are communication, teamwork, critical thinking and problem-solving, and time management. Below we’ve compiled a list of the best soft skills books, categorized by each skill.

How to Motivate Yourself to Learn: 5 Ways to Bypass Discipline

How to Motivate Yourself to Learn: 5 Ways to Bypass Discipline

Do you get tend to give up when a challenge is too difficult? Does anyone encourage you to learn and hold you accountable? You’re probably well aware that motivation and self-discipline help when you want or need to learn something new. In Learn Like a Pro, Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe contend that, the more motivation you have, the less self-discipline you need. Keep reading for their advice on how to motivate yourself to learn.

How to Physically and Mentally Prepare for Meditation

How to Physically and Mentally Prepare for Meditation

How do you mentally and physically prepare for meditation? What type of mindset should you be in to meditate? While meditation is a relaxing practice, it still requires preparation like any other exercise. With the help of The Mind Illuminated, you can learn how to prepare for meditation by getting into the right gear, physically and mentally. Let’s look at what you should do before getting on the mat.

How Active Recall Learning Helps You Absorb More Information

How Active Recall Learning Helps You Absorb More Information

What’s the best way to learn? Does active recall learning work with all types of material? Whether you’re a student, professional, or lifelong learner, Learn Like a Pro by Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe can help you become a more effective learner. The authors offer tips and techniques for excelling at the key elements of learning, including how to actively engage with your materials. Continue reading to understand how active recall learning works.

The Essential Guide to a Meditation Routine for Beginners

How to Visualize the Life You Want to Have in 3 Steps

Do you want to get into meditation but don’t know where to start? What’s the easiest meditation routine for beginners? Meditation can seem intimidating at first, but there’s nothing to be scared of. It’s one of the most relaxing exercises around, and practicing it every day creates a better life and atmosphere for you. Below, we’ll look at The Mind Illuminated‘s meditation routine for beginners to get you started.

How to Treat Childhood Trauma in Adults: 3 Ways to Heal

How to Treat Childhood Trauma in Adults: 3 Ways to Heal

Are elements of your childhood creeping into your relationships? Can adults be treated for childhood trauma? People can go years without treating childhood trauma or even realizing that they’re suffering from it. For those who have accepted that it’s negatively affecting their lives, How to Be an Adult in Relationships by David Richo has three practices that will help heal those wounds. Here’s how to treat childhood trauma in adults so they can learn to love.

How to Use Focused and Diffuse Modes of Attention in Learning

How to Use Focused and Diffuse Modes of Attention in Learning

What’s the best way to use the Pomodoro method when learning something new? Is it possible to deliberately switch between two different modes of attention? In Learn Like a Pro, Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe explain that the brain has two modes of attention: focused and diffuse mode. They discuss how each mode works and then show how you can use both focused and diffuse modes of attention in learning. Read more to understand how these modes of attention work, and how you can effectively put them to work for you.

Gain Mastery With Declarative Learning & Procedural Learning

Gain Mastery With Declarative Learning & Procedural Learning

Would you like to learn how to play the guitar or speak French? What learning skills can help you pick up any other type of skill? Once you have a basic understanding of how knowledge gets into your brain and stays there, you can make the most of what you learn. Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe, in Learn Like a Pro, help you understand two systems that your brain uses to learn. Read on to get a practical introduction to declarative learning and procedural learning.

The Benefits of Spiritual Awakening for You and Others

The Benefits of Spiritual Awakening for You and Others

What are the benefits of spiritual awakening? Why should everyone strive to become enlightened? In your meditative journey, you experience what the authors call insights (vipassanā): epiphanies that dispel your illusions about life, revealing how it really is. These insights, which The Mind Illuminated calls “realizations,” enable you to reach enlightenment. Once you’ve reached enlightenment, you and everyone else around you will experience the benefits listed below.