This summer marks the two-year anniversary of publishing my first book, Little Failures: Learning to Build Resilience Through Everyday Setbacks, Challenges, and Obstacles. Writing Little Failures taught me how to write a book, and I still want to write more, but I also feel like I’m still recovering from writing the first one.

Here are six key lessons I learned from writing a book:

What losing a special necklace on the rock beaches of Nice taught me about life.

These are the 36 books I’ve read so far in 2023. Which ones have you read?