
The Essential Bookshelf
Reading is essential for growth in excellence. It is a window to great and important ideas. An essential bookshelf is a canon of great literature that everybody ought to read. This is my collection of good, great and essential books.

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Description:
In this book, Frankl discusses the experience and response to prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. Those who were able to transcend their circumstances were able see spiritual growth and find meaning, even in the suffering they were experiencing.
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Suffering

Toxic Empathy
Allie Beth Stuckey
Description:
Empathy is the idea of being able to share someone else's feeling. But often feelings can mask and hide the truth. Toxic empathy is the idea of making decisions based feelings for another person that are ultimately harmful to that person. In this book, the author discusses various social and cultural ways that an attempt to be empathetic can cause lasting and serious harms for others and society.
Tags:
Trans, Abortion, Immigration, Homosexuality, Social Justice, Bible

Fortitude
Dan Crenshaw
Description:
Tags:
Resilience, Personal Development, Politics
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