Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2023-09-10
Books mentioned on 162. How Can You Be Kinder to Yourself?
How do you practice self-care if you don’t have time for a break? Is it weird to talk to yourself?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's celebrated autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings details the author's harrowing yet resilient childhood growing up in the American South.
Discussed“she was an amazing poet author she wrote I know where the Caged Bird Sings and is just one of my major heroes in life”
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Radical Candor
Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott is a popular management guide that teaches leaders how to achieve professional success by genuinely caring about their employees while simultaneously challenging them directly.
Discussed“I know our friend Adam Grant who’s also a professor at Wharton has written about how he hates the idea; our dear friend Kim Scott who wrote Radical Candor also hates the idea! But let me just stand up for the crap sandwich which is to say that I agree it’s kind of formulaic and predictable like I’m just going”
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Discussed“and I keep residing to my myself that poem I will not go gentle into this good night”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Radical Candor
“our dear friend Kim Scott who wrote radical Candor also hates the idea”