Read a Mental Health Foundations Book
9 weeks · 3 milestones
Read a foundational non-clinical mental health or cognitive science text (e.g. Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, James Clear's Atomic Habits, or Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism). Proof is chapter-by-chapter reading notes (minimum 200 words per set of 3 chapters), a 500-word reading report, and evidence that you tried one practice from the book for 14 days.
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3 milestones
Choose one of: Martin Seligman's Flourish, Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, or Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Read the first half and write notes on each chapter using exactly this 3-part format: (1) core claim, (2) how it challenges existing thinking, (3) one question it raises for you.
Proof required
Submit your reading notes for the first half of the book, with at least 3 bullets per chapter following the 3-part format.
What gets checked
- Reading notes cover chapters from the first half of the book with at least 3 bullets per chapter
- Each note follows the 3-part format: core claim / challenge to existing thinking / question raised
- Questions show genuine intellectual pushback — not just curiosity or chapter summaries