Thriving Through Books is a book club focused on personal growth, empowerment, and self-discovery. The club explores a wide range of genres and authors, with an emphasis on books that inspire transformation and provide tools for thriving in life. Members come together to share insights, discuss themes, and connect through a shared love of learning and growth.

This month we’ll be reading:

The Burn Out Society by Byung-Chul Han

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.Description: