Life is Short. Eat the Cookie.

04 Apr Life is Short. Eat the Cookie.

Go here for a review of Charles Duhigg’s 2016 book Smarter. Faster. Better. And then a survey/analysis of the business success self-help genre, since the original book of the self-help genre, published in 1859: Self-Help, by Samuel Smiles. (A straightforward beginning, one might say.) How the genre shifts with the economy, and why we keep reading these books. How to break the habit of eating a chocolate chip cookie every afternoon. And then why you shouldn’t.

It has books and cookies, so read it.

“If only somebody could tell me who built the damn station, the circumstances of the building, details of the wrangling between city officials and the railroad, so that I would not fall victim to it, the station, the very first crack off the bat” (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer).