3 Books That Will Make You a Better Person

Hi. Wallace here with your Monday video. Today I'm telling you guys about three books to read to make you a better person. And take that tongue-in-cheek, please. The first one is one that I'm listening to right now. It's called you can't touch my hair by Phoebe Robinson. um This one is gonna make your life better because first of all it's gonna educate you. And second of all it's gonna make you laugh really hard. She's fantastic. I love Phoebe Robinson. Right now she has podcast and coinciding TV show two dope queens on HBO right now and this book. And I'm just like inundating myself with Phoebe Robinson because she's awesome. These are essays though about basically her teaching all of us about recognizing where we're probably too glib and too uninformed about ways in which were racist, ways in which we aren't aware of other cultures and in ways that, if we're white, we're super privileged. And some of this stuff is not stuff that you're gonna be like, "I know." It's gonna be stuff like, "shoot, I didn't know that." Like it wasn't on my radar. You know, and some of it is gonna be stuff that you know already but could use a good reminder of. And if you're somebody who like was already trying to be better and more aware as a person, then you're gonna love her comedy as well. Like you're gonna love the tips that she gives you and like the things, the lessons that she's like teaching you are actually gonna be like thanks. I'm, I needed to hear that. I needed to put myself in that position. So I highly recommend this one. Next is an anthology. It's called rad families and it is, um, these are all essays about different types of families and families doing things in a different way. And I think that everybody could use this. I think it'll make you a better person whether or not you are somebody who has kids or is married or has a partner or whatnot. Maybe even if you're just somebody who that might be in the future for you. Or if you are a kid of somebody, if you're part of any family, this um can either inspire you to do things differently. It can make you feel more comfortable and less lonely if your family does do something differently. Or if you personally are choosing to do something differently with your family. And also it's like normalizing things that are looked at as non-traditional, which I actually really like. I really think those things need to be normalized and those kinds of families need to be normalized. And maybe just because I am a family like that, a single mom raising my kid pretty, pretty much by myself who wasn't actually not looking for somebody to get married to. Look I'm not, I'm not looking to fill that gap right now. In fact I'm not even thinking about it as a gap. So I like stories about people who are doing things differently because it just inspires me and reminds me that like not everybody has to be like cookie cutter vanilla way of doing things. And maybe if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to read this book more than anybody. The last one is the year of less by Cait Flanders. She writes a blog. I believe it's CaitFlanders.com now. And she's done a few life experiments over the past several years. She got really healthy. She quit drinking. She got out of financial debt. And this was her experience of living on like I think it was like less than half of her income or something for a year by not spending. Like she had a list of things she could spend on, you know, groceries, etc., gifts for other people. And then she had a list of things she couldn't buy. She did that for a year and she got rid of the things she didn't use and this is the book about that. She recorded this on her blog but there were parts of it that she didn't share like other stuff that was going on in her life. And so she shares that in this book so you can get a bigger picture of what it was like to not be spending during this kind of crazy year for her and how much it changed her life. So I'm super interested in this and I think this would probably benefit a lot of us especially if you live in the United States of America. We are like the culture of consuming things whether or not we need them. So another interesting book to make your life better. So all three of those, like, they're not self-help books and you're not gonna find them in this self-help section and I don't think you're gonna find this one in the self-help section. This is the only one you might find there but I didn't find it there. And I doubt you will but the others are not. However it doesn't mean that they won't help you to become a better person. And so I just am recommending that for you as we head towards spring and spring cleaning your house, spring cleaning your lives, spring cleaning your thoughts and your awareness and adding some cool new thoughts to the process. If you have any others that you'd like to share with people, go ahead and do that down below. And I will see you again next Monday. Until then, happy reading.