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Know Your Author - John Gray #Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

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  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...

Book Review - How Will You Measure Your Life?

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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...