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Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at MIT. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the TLS, the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Aeon, and the Yale Review. He is also the author of Midlife.

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Live Life in Crescendo (2022) anecdotally provides the answers to many questions about life: How do you live your best life, no matter how old you are? How do you respond to life-changing challenges? What do you do if you have a midlife crisis? It shows how to live life in crescendo – continually growing in contribution, learning, and influence.

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Stephen R. Covey was an educator, author, speaker, and businessman who helped others live more effective, compassionate, and meaningful lives. His legendary book, the internationally best-selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has sold over 50 million copies worldwide and has been published in over 40 languages. Toward the end of his life, Covey felt there was a final component needed to complete his work. Live Life in Crescendo is that final chapter.

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How to Live (2010) is both a biography of the writer Montaigne and an overview of the monumental work for which he’s famous: the Essays – a genre of writing that he invented. Along the way, it suggests some lessons we can take from his life and apply to our own.

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How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) melds literary biography with a self-help structure to argue that reading the work of twentieth-century French author Marcel Proust is not only culturally enriching, but potentially life-enhancing. Botton’s close reading of Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, offers up surprising and delightful insights into how to live better.

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Alain de Botton is a philosopher and author. His best-selling books span topics such as atheism, sex, love, work, and architecture. He is the founder of the alternative educational institute, The School of Life.

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Fault Lines (2020) examines a common problem that no one talks about: family estrangements. Over a quarter of Americans experience being cut off from friends and family during their lifetimes, which has devastating psychological impacts. Fault Lines explores the common causes of estrangement and gives surprising and insightful advice on how to work towards reconciliation.

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