Interests
Books
Find Your People by Jennie Allen
"Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World" by Jennie Allen is a book that I read with one of my small groups back in Minnesota and I am reading it again with one of my first small groups here in Colorado Springs, CO.
One of my favorite takeaways from Allen's book is her featuring Jeffrey Hall's research on maintaining community:
In summary:
We can manage a network of 150 people
Of those 150...
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50 are our Acquaintances
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15 are our Village ("a diverse community of consistent, interconnected people") (in my case it's my weekly book club)
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2-5 are our Close Friends/BFFs
"As reported in Psychology Today, "He (University of Kansas professor Jeffrey Hall) found that it took about 50 hours of interaction to move from acquaintance to casual friend, about 90 hours to move from casual friend to friend, and more than 200 hours to qualify as a best friend" (Jennie Allen, "Find Your People").
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends & Influence People" is a classic which my Dad recommended to me as he knew I was in business school and taking on challenging sales internships. It was also one of the books that we read during my Leadership class during a semester abroad in Spain.
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
"The Power of Habit" is definitely a habit book staple. It talks about the anatomy of a habit such as the 3-step "cue, routine, reward" for both good habits and bad ones. It features the Founder/CEO of Starbucks who turned his life around and became the successful person that he is today.
The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
"The 5 Second Rule" was a book that I had stumbled upon a couple years before Mel Robbins' world renown podcast blew up and when the small town that my parents lived in still had a bookstore. Her idea of being able to change your life 1 decision at a time and counting down from 5 in order to scientifically shift the brain into acting or not acting on a decision/habit was inspiring to me, and I was amazed by how much agency I realized I truly had.
