Books form a big part of what inspired me to start building Our Future is Kind. Different genres offer readers different things: Fiction stimulates our imagination and gives us escape from our lives; non-fiction can provide a source of great and useful knowledge; and, biographies can provide inspiration on how we can change the world and our own lives. My favorite books are typically windows into the wisdom of others.

I wanted to present these three books that have completely changed how I see the world:

1. 1. Oliver Burkeman's "4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" - It looks like a time management book, but it's really a philosophical tome regarding what it means to be a human who lives a finite life with nearly limitless choices about how to spend that life. This book has taught me how planning and self-improvement are vital parts of the self-care that we have to practice in order to be able to create a nurturing work culture and unbeatable teams. It has also taught me to be more at peace with the fact that we cannot, and should not, try to do it all.

2. 2. Shawn Achor’s "Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being" speaks to how we are all connected, how we are healthier when social, about how we solve problems only by interacting with others, and even how we see our lives is lighter and better when we are social. This book has been inspirational when it comes to the interacting-part of spreading kindness and creating uplifting, healthy work cultures.

3. 3. Robert Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky" is fiction, great storytelling, and essential futurism. It presents a world in which youth engage with other planets around other stars and how one situation arises in which college students are stranded on a little-known planet. It taught me to dream about what the future could and should be, and how people should work together. In other words, it helps form the basis of the future-planning-part of the Our Future is Kind community and how we can work the create better work cultures and, ultimately, societies.

This is just a small selection of the resources and knowledge that I have gained over the years. I have been able to use this knowledge to craft my own strategies for connecting to others, at work and beyond. I have even managed to create my own book in which I share some of my insights from books and from real-life experiences. My book, keynote speaking-events, and other services provide guidance, so that you can navigate the modern workplace, and I created these resources for you in part based on my book-reading habit.