by Andy Puddicombe
Recommended by Bill Gates
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Get Some Headspace offers a brisk, conversational primer on mindfulness with short, practical practices designed to slot into a busy day. Andy Puddicombe writes like an encouraging instructor rather than an academic, so the tone stays plain and reassuring. What works best is accessibility: you can try ideas immediately without clearing your schedule. Its limitation is the limitation of brevity—complex aspects of meditation get light treatment, and readers wanting deeper philosophical detail or step-by-step long practices may feel shortchanged.
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As a former Buddhist monk with over 10 years of teaching experience, Andy Puddicombe has been acknowledged as the UK's foremost mindfulness meditation expert. Like his readers and students, he began his own meditation practice as a normal, busy person with everyday concerns, and he has since designed a program that fits neatly into a jampacked dai...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Health, Psychology, and Personal Development.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
“If you want to try meditation for yourself, one good way to ease into it—especially if you’re as skeptical as I was—is to pick up a copy of The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness.”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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