The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Scandal of the Kingdom: How the Parables of Jesus Revolutionize Life with God

Dave Stuart Jr. ❤️ loved this book because...

Dallas Willard has shaped a lot of my thinking over the years, encouraging me to use my whole mind to figure things out and make the world a better place. When I saw that he had a new book posthumously, I got it right away. It's a neat format in which he works through the various parables of Jesus and unpacks principles and clarity from them.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Thoughts 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Dallas Willard,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Scandal of the Kingdom as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A major new work by Dallas Willard, the highly anticipated follow-up to his seminal work The Divine Conspiracy. In this groundbreaking book based on teachings he delivered to a church community, Willard delves into the transformative power of Jesus's parables, revealing how they show us how to live right now in the kingdom of God.

Drawing from his extensive teachings on spiritual formation, Willard illuminates the timeless wisdom contained within each parable, revealing their profound relevance to contemporary life. With clarity and depth, he guides readers through the subversive messages embedded within these seemingly simple stories, urging us to break…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Dave Stuart Jr. 👍 liked this book because...

Newport's writing often invites me to think afresh about how I manage my workload as a high school teacher and an author. This book was no different. Though I couldn't relate to all of Newport's ideas in this book, overall I found that once again Newport had given me fresh clarity and perspective I was needing.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Outlook 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Cal Newport,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Slow Productivity as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Brilliant and timely' - Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace.

Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we're rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it's called 'slow productivity'.

Coined by Cal Newport,…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Dave Stuart Jr. 👍 liked this book because...

This is one of that books that I liked and hated at the same time. I liked that Shrier was pointing at a problem I see often in both my work as a public school teacher and in my personal life. With therapy more pervasive than ever, folks are feeling worse than ever. I appreciated the chance to sit and think with Shrier about what this means and how to move forward in love toward my students and others I'm in life with.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Teach
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Abigail Shrier,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Bad Therapy as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing up. What’s gone wrong with America’s youth?

In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn’t the kids—it’s…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own

By Dave Stuart Jr.,

Book cover of The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own

What is my book about?

Student demotivation is experienced as pain — for students, for us, for everyone.

But here's the good news: student demotivation is not inevitable. It's not “a sign of the times”; it's not “kids these days;” it's not “because of COVID.”

Instead, it's a symptom of the fact that modern education has lost touch with several key realities:

--Every one of our students wants to want to learn,
--every school in the world can be both productive and
humane—achievement and wellness aren’t opposed to one
another but instead are friends,
--as teachers, you and I have an outlandish (though not omnipotent)
influence on the degree to which students in our classrooms
experience the will to learn, and
--the most powerful strategies for cultivating student
motivation are far from complicated.

Book cover of The Scandal of the Kingdom: How the Parables of Jesus Revolutionize Life with God
Book cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Book cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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