![]() ![]() This is great for people who feel that they are at a turning point of sorts, but it’s also a great read for absolutely anyone. The entirety of the book is devoted to motivating you to make changes in your life and to feel confident in doing so. I love audiobooks narrated by the author themselves, as is You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jennifer Sincero. It’s also a great one to listen to if road tripping through South Africa! You can listen here. I’ve listened to this one twice and was thoroughly entertained both times. I think a lot of the effect and humor would be lost if read visually rather than listened to as an audiobook. What I love most about this book is that he performs the whole thing himself. While this led to a difficult upbringing, in true Trevor Noah fashion he tells the story with humor and relatability. With a black mother and white father, he was quite literally born a crime during the forced racial segregation in his home country. This is the story of Trevor Noah who was born and raised in South Africa during the apartheid years. This one will get you thinking! You can listen here. I love it when I come out of a book with even more questions than I had before. This is the only book on this list that I could turn around and listen to immediately again, just to go over the parts that I missed before, or consider them with the benefit of having already finished the book. ![]() For these reasons this book might offend some people but I think the author does a good job of laying out bare facts. Almost everything we base our lives on are social constructs and agreements, like economics, romance, and religion. It’s insane how many things we consider as absolutely true these days that did not exist for most of humankind’s history. For most of our existence, we were hunter gatherers who, if we could make it out of childhood, lived pretty laid-back, well-fed lives. It really puts modern society into perspective, particularly how short of a time we have been living in societies with culture, laws, and farming. This is one of the best audiobooks I have ever listened to. ![]()
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