Mar 21, 2022
Jerry Fu is a conflict resolution coach who helps Asian American leaders advance in their career and life journeys. He’s also a voracious and wide-ranging reader, and I was delighted he joined me today to talk about a classic true story of survival and forgiveness, “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.
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Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Jerry Fu
Discussed in this episode:
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Forgotten Realms by R. A. Salvatore
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alexander Hailey
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Thomas Wolf\
Forgotten God by David Pleiss Radical
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Switch: How To Change Things When Change is Hard by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Dan Fink
The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum
Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Unbroken: The Young Adult Adaptation by Laura Hillenbrand
Between a Rock and A Hard Place by Aron Ralston (the basis of the movie 127 Hours)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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