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What's One Book You Think Everyone Should Read At Least Once?

sweetnutella June 5th

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There's always that one good book that's so good that you can't help but talk about it whenever you have the chance 🔊💬 to me, the honor goes to "Emotional Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman!

"Emotional Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman is like the cool guide to understanding your feelings and getting smart with your heart 🧠❤️ It's all about how our emotions aren't just random feelings, but they've got some serious science behind them. Goleman takes us on a brainy adventure, explaining how our emotional and rational minds work together, or why sometimes they clash like a superhero battle ⚔🤺⚔

He shows us that being emotionally intelligent is like having superpowers for real life – it's not just about being book-smart, but also about managing those wild emotions, empathizing with others, and staying motivated even when life throws lemons at you, making this book sits on my top list of recommendations whenever somebody is asking for one.

How about you? What's the one book that's always ready for you to recommend? Maybe it's a heart-wrenching romance that turns on the waterworks 💧 or perhaps a get-rich-quick business manual that promises to fill your pockets 💰💸

What's the title that's got you hooked?

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ElenaDeMonaco June 5th



The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz ✨

The tools shared by Don Miguel are based on common sense and shared with such simplicity, that the universal message underlying his teaching is easy to apply on a daily life.

Becoming aware is about being responsible for your own life. You are not responsible for what is happening in the world. You are responsible for yourself. You didn't make the world the way it is; the world was already the way it is before you were born. You didn't come here with a great mission to save the world, to save society, but surely you come with a big mission, an important mission. The real mission you have in life, is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize.

Most importantly, it reminded me that love really is all that matters, and that the only sort that really nurtures us, is the love we find within ourselves ✨


@sweetnutella

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sweetnutella OP June 5th

@ElenaDeMonaco My goodness, Elena, that's the most beautiful thing I've read all week! 😱🤩😵 I LOVE, LOVE the way you described the book, it makes me want to add it to my wishlist! It seems like a wholesome, heartfelt book, and I'm all in for it.

How has the book helped you with your personal life? Does it help you improve your relationship with yourself? I feel like the best kinds of books are the ones that urge us to take actions, so I wonder how this book has shaped your life, if done so! I'm all ears to listen to your journey of self-love and acceptance 🤗✨

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ElenaDeMonaco June 6th
Thank you for asking ✨🙏🏽✨ It has helped me in so many ways… I still read it from time to time when I forget that my happiness is my own responsibility

That the only way to master Love is to practice Love

That this is My Dream✨

A healthy relationship with oneself helps to have a healthy relationship with others

I believe that at the end of the day dear Nutella, the biggest love story is between me and myself ✨

I highly recommend this book to you together with his other Masterpiece: The Four Agreements 


@sweetnutella
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sweetnutella OP June 9th

@ElenaDeMonaco Elena, I'm glad to hear that the book has helped you tremendously. After all, it's always good to have something that you can turn to as a guide in times of need 😊 And thanks for recommending another work of the author! I wonder what The Four Agreements is about? And why would you recommend it? 🧐

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ElenaDeMonaco June 9th
Thank you ✨🙏🏽✨

The book goes on to talk about how everyone has unconscious beliefs that we pick up as children. We view and experience our world through these beliefs. Most folks aren't even aware that they have them and this causes a myriad of misunderstandings and problems: "We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us. There is no truth to find. Wherever we turn our heads, all we see is the truth, but with the agreements and beliefs we have stored in our mind, we have no eyes for this truth. We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind." 

The Four Agreements are: 
Be Impeccable With Your Word
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best

It a small book about 129 pages, but it’s written with love and it is a very interesting proposal to see the world around us - hope you like it @sweetnutella
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AskTara June 5th

@sweetnutella I love Daniel Goldman!

I don't have a mental health-related book recco as of now. But I would suggest everyone to read Hunger Games. It's a great story about the resilience of people in the face of oppressive regimes. A pretty compelling read! 

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MellowMusic June 8th

I agree, the hunger games novels were hauntingly amazing!! I couldn't put them down at all and when I got done I was so distraught (in the best way possible!)

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sweetnutella OP June 9th
@MellowMusic Now, now, you and @AskTara are making me want to read the novel versions! 😵
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MellowMusic June 9th

I genuinely cannot recommend enough!

(read it! read it! read it!) 😂

AskTara June 9th

@sweetnutella DO IT!! 

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sweetnutella OP June 5th

@AskTara Hunger Games!! 🔥🔥 I haven't read the novels, but I've watched the movies and I must say I'm hooked. And since some say novels are better than movies, I'm curious just how marvelous the book versions will be. Do you believe novels are > compared to their movie adaptations? 👀 I'm down to listen to some hot takes if you have any!

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AskTara June 6th

@sweetnutella Ofc!! Novels >>> Movies. My favourite was the first book in the series. I couldn't put it down. It was full of adventure. I still have to read the final book, but I feel hesitant to because then it will be all done. And I'm not ready for it to end. 😭

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sweetnutella OP June 9th
@AskTara Gosh, Tara, I feel you on a spiritual level! Some books are so good that you just don't want them to end 😂 have you watched the movies, though? Or are you avoiding to do so so that the ending won't be spilled? 🙊
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Banana123123 June 5th

Good Morning Monster

The book changed my life on view on my menthal health disorders.

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sweetnutella OP June 5th

@Banana123123 Oh, what an interesting title! 🌺 In what way does it change your mind about mental disorders?

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The sun ans the star by Rick Riordan it’s my favorite book of all time!!!!!!!!!🤩😍🥰


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sweetnutella OP June 9th

@forcefulShip4663 Oohh, care telling me why it sits on the top of your recommendation list? 👀✨

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@sweetnutella, I’m not sure why exactly I just love Nico and Will so much and I think it’s a awesome book that just shows their love story perfectly and who they are and what they are for each other in the darkest of times. ❤️😍🥰

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sweetnutella OP August 12th

@forcefulShip4663 ohh, would you say it's a romance book? I do not typically read romance per se, but the way you described it got me wanting to check it out! 😮🔥

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forcefulShip4663 August 12th

Yes it is in a way it also has a huge mission/quest in it. It’s amazing!😻

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CallumKing2000 June 13th

Yo I jus looked at this picture and wanted to comment and say that bag is proper good 👌💯🔥🔥🔥

@sweetnutella

The Life of Muhammad by mirza basheer

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sweetnutella OP August 12th

@EkMukhtsarMulaqat interesting! Why would you recommend this book? 🎤

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EkMukhtsarMulaqat August 12th

@sweetnutella

For starters, this book has changed my whole life and i wish everyone get this chance, at least everyone deserves this book

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navyTalker73 June 24th

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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sweetnutella OP August 12th

@navyTalker73 honestly I have read this one! It would also be one of the books I recommend to people, though it can surely be a bit depressing.... Why do you think this book is worth talking about?

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JaneHughes5435 August 12th

@sweetnutella

Well I think we need to embrace stoicism in our modern society. Where we are struggling with a lot issues and internet yk is toxic. "Meditations" by the founder of stoicism "Marcus Aurelius". This book I suggest you all to read. Its all about accepting the wrong things that happens to you. And learning from these things to prevent it from happening again. I mean failure. 

syrupyPancake5775 August 12th

How to win friends and influence people 

slowdecline48 August 13th

Night, by Elie Wiesel.

Millennials & zoomers especially need to read it. I would include gen Alpha kids too but from what I've seen thus far, most of 'em don't read.

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slowdecline48 August 13th
For the record, I'm not a fan of "emotional intelligence" as a concept. Emotions themselves cause people to act stupidly (& sometimes recklessly) more often than not. They seem to be little more than a holdover from our paleolithic time & before.
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