Atlas of the Heart
In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us. Buy the Book Guides, passages, and podcasts Article The Practice of Story Stewardship
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- Also Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown was a breakthrough book for me
- Most posts offer the obvious suggestions (The Mom Test, High Growth Handbook, The Personal MBA, The Power Law, Hard Thing about Hard Thing, Will It Fly, etc), so I'll focus on some non-obvious suggestions.
For tactical advice, I find talks/podcasts and mastermind groups more useful than books. My favorite podcast (by far) is Rob Walling's Startups for the Rest of Us, which is oriented towards building a capital-efficient bootstrapped business. The archive is full of extremely valuable tactical advice.
The books I've found most helpful on my entrepreneurship journey are about mental health, emotional intelligence, and relationships of all kinds. Sharing a few that have had a profound impact, since they helped me metabolize and understand what drove me to become a founder in the first place.
1. The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook by Tim Desmond
2. Path of Compassion by Thich Nhat Hanh
3. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, Philippa Perry
4. Burnout, Emily Nagoski
5. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay C. Gibson
6. Self-Compassion, Dr. Kristin Neff
7. How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis
8. Deploy Empathy, Michele Hansen
9. The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel A. Van der Kolk
10. Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown
11. What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
- I would encourage you to spend time in those spaces with no intention to interact. Just go and spend time observing your thoughts and feelings. If you feel like you don't have much vocabulary for your emotions, two book I really recommend are Brene Brown's "Atlas of the Heart" [1], where a researcher names, describes, and compares the various emotions, and "The Emotion Thesaurus" [2], a writer's guide that includes a lot of description that can help with pattern-matching.
Once you have a handle on the feelings and what triggers them, I think you'll get some insight into the currently unknown reasons. I'd be you'll also have theories on how to work around it, but if not, a good therapist can help.
[1] https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Emotion-Thesaurus-Writers-Character-E...
- I've been reading Brene Brown's "Atlas of the Heart" - a book that tries to wrangle the definition of emotion words. It's a sort of dictionary crossed with Brene's own stories and her research. Really good read for those into language and psycholgy.
