- Philip Defranco hosts an online news show, on the very popular social media outlet YouTube. I am an avid YouTube user, and I've been subscribed to his show for about a year now, and I love it. He touches on a lot of important topics, and 99% of the time, I completely agree with him. I think a lot of people in this generation would benefit from watching his videos. It's not like FOX news, it's actually enjoyable to watch and there's no sugar coating things, or any hidden ulterior motives.
- TED talks are one of my favorite things to watch in my free time, this one is about schools, and how the education system kills creativity.
- Jennifer Niven is a wonderful YA author, she doesn't water things down, or come off as condescending at all, like the majority of YA writers do. Usually they write as if they're writing for children, rather than young adults. I'm not the biggest fan of these types ofbooks, but there are a few authors that do catch my eye and change that for me, Niven being one of them for sure. This book touches on death, depression, love, and suicide. I would recommend this to anyone my age, and even older.
- Junot is a Pulitzer prize winning author, and I love his work, and if I were to rate this book it wouldn't be at the top of the list, but it would be around a 3 or 4 star rating. But I do agree with this quote a reviewer left on Goodreads "First, it's a stifiling book. We're up close and breathing the frowsy sweat of the unloveliest parts of male macho attitude in all of these stories, every one."
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a wonderful non fiction, psychology book focusing on your subconscious mind and decision making. It's basic premise is split second decisions (snap judgements) and how they can be good, or bad.
- Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet and writer, age 23, and her book Milk and Honey was published in 2015, instantly becoming popular all over the internet including popular sites such as Tumblr, where quotes from the book have been shared everywhere.
- Also check out "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass. It's truly one of my favorite books, Richard Alpert started out as a scientist at Harvard, studying LSD and other compounds, to leaving behind the ways of the western world by going overseas and finding himself more in touch with nature and reality, and has brought it back to us in the form of this book. It has a lot of metaphors and illustrations, and for most of it you read the book holding it vertically, it's a very unique book, although you may have to read it a couple times to actually grasp it thoroughly.
