This week we are bringing you the Fall 2025 edition of our Read: Watch: Listen recommendations. This week we are bringing you the fall edition of our Read: Watch: Listen recommendations. We are always getting recommendations from our coaches, members, and community at large. So if you have your own, please send them our way.
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The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
Those of you who’ve been reading this newsletter for awhile, know that I’m obsessed with focus – where you choose to concentrate your attention. As more and more of our clients are coming in with diagnosed ADD and ADHD, I’ve been even more drawn to learning about this topic.
The first part of this book revisits familiar ground from Stolen Focus, Deep Work, Essentialism, The One Thing, and Flow. But the second half of the book, how the attention economy has impacted us on individually, collectively, and globally, is new and compelling.
The loss of real connection, the depth of loneliness, the rise of conspiracies, all tied to the ‘enshittification’ of platforms that lured us in with so much promise, only to monetize and commodify our attention.
As the publisher puts it:
Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes shares, “Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.”
It doesn’t necessarily give us answers but it gives us a lot to think about and to wake up to.
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Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall
Like so many others, I’m mourning the loss of this wise and compassionate woman. Jane Goodall was singular and remarkable. And rather than say too much, I’ll just say this: it’s extraordinary to watch an interview filmed with the knowledge that it will not be aired until she is gone.
I hope you’ll watch through to the end. When it’s just you and Jane.
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On Being: Joanna Macy—A Wild Love for the World
I was first introduced to Joanna Macy through the Truth Mandala ritual from her book Coming Back to Life, which the Dalai Lama called a timeless manual for Earth healers. Joanna Macy passed earlier this year, and I found this conversation with her to be deeply inspiring on many levels. I invite you to listen and to be charmed by this utterly unique human, who gave all of herself to loving this world over a remarkable 96 years of life. If you want to know more about Joanna’s work, the Work That Reconnects, you can dive into the We Are The Great Turning podcast recorded in 2024. Joanna is fierce, courageous, and loving, and her teachings are priceless.
Remember these recommendations come from people like you. So if you have something great to share, for our next edition of Read Watch Listen let us know!
