Extra Credit
Extra Book: One of the two extra credit opportunities for this class is, for half the credit you would get for the other book papers, to read and write about one of these five books as you wrote about the other books, focusing on what you learned:
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means (with Calley Means)
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman and Nan Silver
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson (Related blog posts laid out here.)
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coyle
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Moral Politics by George Lakoff
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson
We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan Peterson
Hold Me Tight: 7 Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Susan Johnson
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
You need to send in the paper on the extra book before the last class to get credit.
You can only get extra credit for one book above. But you can get additional extra credit beyond that subscribing to, reading and writing a bit about what you learned from the Daily Stoic emails.
The Daily Stoic: Subscribe to the daily email from The Daily Stoic at https://dailystoic.com/ and get extra credit for up to three 200-word reactions about a daily message that was especially meaningful to you, explaining why it is was meaningful to you.