Co-Founder of Plataforma Mamilos tells the criteria she established to select the books she reads daily for at least 30 minutes.
“Buy the book despite the cover” is the message left by the entrepreneur, presenter and mediator of matters that come out of the shallow, Cris Bartis. Curious almost compulsively about people’s life stories, owner of a cadenced Minas Gerais accent and passionate reader, Cris guarantees lightness and welcoming treatment to everyone who sits at the table of Mamilos, one of the ten most listened podcasts in the country, on the air for 8 years old.
With a 30-minute schedule for a chat with Grow, the subscription book club focused on personal development, the conversation went from one hour to a list of 4 interesting publications related to the category.
Despite their relevance and public success, personal development books are far from being received by critics, but Cris has a different view. “A good book is one that works for you, that speaks to you. There’s no formula. It can bring encouragement, it can awaken the critical sense, there are infinite possibilities and all, in one way or another, promote self-development”, he ponders. “What can’t are books that distil hatred, prejudice, xenophobia, that tell untruths, denigrate races, and are on newsstands today! That really defines a bad book. So it is necessary to do a curation. What are you feeding your soul with?”, he asks.
According to the presenter, for a number of reasons the covers and titles of self-help books have gained the contours of a mass product and, for some audiences, this creates a barrier because it seems like a book emptied of content, in contrast to literary books, which have space for a more poetic look. “Some books I would never have read, but after overcoming prejudice with the cover, I set out to understand who the author is and where he came from and I find wonders like O Carrasco do amor, for example. I read it a long time ago, it’s always with me, but it’s a bad title”, he laughs. “It’s from Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, one of the most renowned psychiatrists alive today. He brings ten tales of clinical reports and, in the course of his patients’ stories, he also deals with their human aspect, with their own prejudices towards patients; it’s fantastic. I read this one, fell in love with the author and read everything by him”, he adds.
Further reinforcing the indications of books about people, Cris Bartis takes a more recent one from the shelf, called “Como Mudar”. “It’s another example of a book that I had resistance to the title, but it’s by Katy Milkman, an award-winning behavioral scientist. In the book, the author brings approaches and research on changes in habits. It is data and science in the service of self-development and also of questioning what moves us.
Here is the list of indications
- The Executioner of Love, by Irvin D. Yalom;
- Getting to Yes with Yourself, by William Ury;
- How to Change, by Katy Milkman;
- I Control How I Feel, by Claudia Feitosa-Santana.
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