If you have not discovered Brene Brown then let me introduce you. She is a researcher who proves things by measuring them and quantifying them with data. She writes about difficult emotions and how those can be our success or our failure in our life. I think there is something for everyone on this book. Fast Company has put her book as one of the top business books of 2012.
She gives wonderful talks and interviews.
She has a website Ordinary Courage
Her current book “Daring Greatly” is the next thing for me to complete.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Contradictions of Life 