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Title: Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being

Author: Brian Little

Recommended by: ORI team

About: Me, Myself, and Us explores questions that are rooted in the origins of human consciousness but are as commonplace as yesterday’s breakfast conversation, such as whether our personality traits are set by age thirty or whether our brains and selves are more plastic. He considers what our personalities portend for our health and success, and the extent to which our well-being depends on the personal projects we pursue.

Title: The Clan of the Cave Bear

Author: Jean Auel

Recommended by: ORI team

About: The stunning epic that stirred the imagination of millions. Here is a novel of awesome beauty and power. A moving saga about people, relationships and the boundaries of love. Through Jean Auel's magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very special heroine, Ayla. Her enthralling story is one we all can share. A natural disaster has left young Ayla alone, wandering, fending for herself in an unfamiliar land.

Title: Atomic Habits

Author: James Clear

Recommended by: Andrea Wilson

About: If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Title: 12 Rules for Life: ‘An Antidote to Chaos'

Author: Jordan Peterson

Recommended by: Anxhelo Mecollari

About: What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hardwon truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

re·search/’rēˌsərCH, rəˈsərCH/, noun

Questions are this great launching point that enable us to deal with the unknown.

Warren Berger, Author of The Book of Beautiful Questions

A SPARK OF FUN

Last month we shared a complete-a-drawing activity. We asked the SPARK community to come up with their own creations. Here's what they came up with!

Contributed by Esha Rana

Contributed by Jocelyn Ho

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Complete the crossword puzzle on Humber Press' website!

https://humberpress.com/games-crossword

QUIPS AND QUOTES

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

James Clear

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but the truth.

Helene Deutsch

Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build.

Gene Luen Yang

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl Buck

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Ahmed Zewail

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Jordan Peterson

If I have the courage of not knowing where a project is going and the passionate curiosity to pursue it, I discover new ideas that I never imagined possible.

Curiosity supersedes my fear of failure.

So, I let go of being afraid to fail.

If I stay present and continue to experiment, I never fail.

Sheila Pinkel, Manifestation of a Cube, Turover Press, 2010