As crazy as it might seem, I believe the answer is yes.

Presence, by Amy Cuddy

Deirdre Donahue: Want to enjoy a more confident 2016?

Its a book that every single person needs to read.

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Broadway Books; Little, Brown and Company (2); HarperOne; Random House

It sounds too sad.

And I said, Get over yourself.

Youve got to read it.

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Penguin

It is also a lot of fun.

We care because we are porous, she says.

Pain is at once actual and constructed, feelings are made based on how you speak them.

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Riverhead Books

This riveting book will make you a better writer, a better human.

The Element, by Ken Robinson

Warren Bennis: A great and inspiring book.

Its been said that an unexamined life is not worth living.

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Amber-Allen Publishing

True enough, and Ken Robinson doesnt let us off the hook.

After the first page, you have to abandon your ego and look for your own gifts and graces.

It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking.

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TarcherPerigee

I have never been more moved by a book than I am by this one.

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Little, Brown and Company

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Random House

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William Morrow

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Graywolf Press

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Penguin Books

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Metropolitan Books

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Simon & Schuster

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Scribner

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Broadway Books

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HarperOne

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Doubleday

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Riverhead Books

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Simon & Schuster