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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport

Do deep work and produce value to contribute to humanity and live fulfilled. Deliberately schedule one to four hours of…
December 1, 2020
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg

We are driven by cravings (even more than outcomes). Cues drive habits. Therefore, cues must generate strong cravings to become…
November 18, 2020
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | Steven Pinker

The Enlightenment gave birth to a renewed focus on science,  reason and human flourishing. Scientific improvements in agriculture created less…
October 2, 2020
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion | Sam Harris

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion | Sam Harris

The self is an illusion. Consciousness cannot be. We discover the transitory nature of our thoughts in consciousness through meditation.…
August 29, 2020September 21, 2020
Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich | Jason Zweig

Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich | Jason Zweig

“We are intuitively poor investors.” Jason Zweig says this in Chapter 1. Zweig leans heavily on the work of Kahneman…
August 24, 2020September 21, 2020
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money by Ron Lieber

The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money by Ron Lieber

Lieber shares creative, funny and real stories he’s collected from families across the country that encourage smart spending, saving, donating,…
August 20, 2020September 21, 2020
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear

Habits are like atoms — the building blocks of our lives. We become our habits and with more effective habits,…
August 13, 2020September 20, 2020
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown

Essentialists bring forth more by being intentional about exactly what they choose to work on. Essentialists choose what to do…
August 3, 2020September 21, 2020
Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Build a business that solves a unique problem that real people have. And that no-one else is trying to solve.…
July 26, 2020September 21, 2020
Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert

Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert

Our brains continuously lie to us. Our memories are faulty and deceive us. We overestimate the good in events, skewing…
July 13, 2020September 21, 2020
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

There is one infinite game. There are myriad finite games within the infinite game. But unlike finite games, the infinite…
July 13, 2020September 21, 2020
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