Listen "Reading What You Love, Loving What You Do: Tim Hodges"
Episode Synopsis
We're talking to management professor and executive director of the Clifton Strengths Institute Tim Hodges, who joins us to talk about writing (or not!) in books, notes from your past self, third spaces, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: A page from A Midsummer Night's Dream with margin notes (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! A Novel Idea Bookstore Albert Bandura Ruha BenjaminRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Walter Benjamin"Unpacking My Library" David BrooksHow to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David BrooksThe Road to Character Pascale CasanovaThe World Republic of Letters Don CliftonFirst, Break all the Rules CliftonStrengths Henry Cloud Mark FisherPostcapitalist Desire Stephen FrearsHigh Fidelity Adam Grant Chip and Dan HeathDecisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work Dan HeathWhat It's Like to Be… podcast Daniel Kahneman Tressie McMillan CottomLower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy James MerrillFrom the First Nine: Poems, 1946–1976 Leonard MichaelsThe Essays of Leonard Michaels C. Wright MillsWhite Collar Lukas MoodyssonTilsammens (Together) Vivek MurthyTogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World PBS News Hour Daniel H. PinkWhen: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Proverbs Psalms Tom Rath / Jim HarterWellbeing: The Five Essential Elements Howard Schultz / Joanne GordonOnward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing its Soul Studs TerkelWorking Richard H. Thaler / Cass R. SunsteinNudge J. D. VanceHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Boris VianBlues for a Black Cat and Other Stories Tara WestoverEducated: A Memoir
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