Discovery Shoppe Book Club

Cheers, my beautiful readers! It's yet another exciting month at Discovery Shoppe, and as always, we're bringing you a short bio of our author of the month. This April 2022, we will be taking a look at Cal Newport , author of our business book for the year, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World . Read along with us!   You can read our last Know Your Author episode featuring Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith - career coaches and authors of How Women Rise - our book for the month of March 2022. By Onyedikachi Nwachukwu | Discovery Shoppe Book Club Cal Newport Cal Newport was born on June 23, 1982. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 2004 and received a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009 under Nancy Lynch. He was a postdoctoral associate in the MIT computer science department from 2009 to 2011. He is currently a computer science professor at Georgetown University. His work foc...

Good day, Discovery Shoppers! It's yet another fantastic moment as we at Discovery Shoppe book club share our author(s) of the month with you. This month, to commemorate women's month and the International Women's Day, one which celebrates every amazing woman around the world, we are reading a women-themed book 😁. Ladies and gents, without further ado, we would love to introduce to you the authors of our book for the month, ' How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back From Your Next Raise, Promotion, Or Job ', Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith. You can also catch us on our last Know Your Author episode for February 2022 - John Gray, a relationship expert and author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. By Onyedikachi Nwachukwu | Editor: Vivian Oguguo | Discovery Shoppe Book Club Sally Helgesen Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s foremost expert on women’s leadership, is a best-selling author, international speaker and leadership coa...

  W elcome, dear readers, to another episode of Discovery Shoppe Book Club's Know Your Author Series 😁. It is the month of love, and of course, as a reputable book club, we can't let ourselves be outdone on the issue of love. So, *drumrolls please* our author for the month is the writer of the sensational relationship book, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" ; John Gray, PhD. You can also catch us on our last Know Your Author episode for January 2022 - How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton M. Christensen, and co-authors, James Allworth and Karen Dillion By Onyedikachi Nwachukwu | Editor: Vivian Oguguo | Discovery Shoppe Book Club John Gray John Gray is an American relationship counselor, lecturer, and author. Born in 1951 in Houston, Texas. John Gray received his doctorate in Psychology and Human Sexuality from Columbia Pacific University in 1982. In 1969, he began a nine-year affiliation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as his personal assistant before begin...

The book How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon is one of the best practical self-help books I have read in a long time. Thanks to Discovery Shoppe Book Club, we read this in January. Discovery Shoppe Book Club comes up with thought-provoking book reviews per month. These reviews give a good summary of our current read and also serve as a guide to potential readers.  Read through for a wholesome gist of our book read for January 2022. By Joyce Ekeh | Editor: Vivian Oguguo | Discovery Shoppe Book Club Christensen took his time to walk us through how to analyze what we want out of life and how we want to get it. He writes that happiness and fulfillment in life should not be based only on the "hygiene factors", which are money, fame, status, e.t.c. but also on “motivation factors” like wholesome relationships, family, and personal well-being. He began the book by talking about the reunions he usually had with his business s...