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My Favorite Non-Fictions
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items Books that taught me something I've kept. Some changed how I do things, some just changed how I see them. I'll keep adding to this as I read.
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Books That HELPED Me Figure Out Being an Adult🌿
Books That HELPED Me Figure Out Being an Adult🌿
Nobody hands you a manual. These came close. I picked these up at different times, mostly when something wasn't working. Each one sorted out a different part of it.
Goals are overrated; systems are everything. You don't rise to your ambitions, you fall to your routines. Clear splits behaviour change into four laws, and the tricks stick because they're small enough to try before lunch. Past 30 million copies, 260...
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Ninety years old and still right. Use names, ask what interests them, admit fault fast, don't tell anyone they're wrong. Carnegie's real insight was that almost everyone is waiting for their turn to talk, and not doing that is a competitive advantage...
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Two systems run your thinking: one fast, automatic and confident, one slow, effortful and lazy. The fast one makes most of your decisions and is wrong far more than it feels. Kahneman won a Nobel for the underlying work, and the book is denser than t...
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The book that broke the genre's compulsory positivity. You have a limited supply of caring and most people spend it terribly; pain isn't optional but choosing which pain is; "you are not special" turns out to be a relief. Far more Stoic underneath th...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
Rubin produced Johnny Cash, the Beastie Boys, and Slayer, and can't play an instrument. His argument is that creativity isn't a talent you have but a way of paying attention; the work is already out there, and your job is mostly noticing and getting ...
The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin
Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave — and behaviour is hard to teach. Housel makes the case across nineteen short stories rather than formulas: why ordinary people get rich slowly, why bri...
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
The book that invented the business-self-help aisle, and it shows — dated in places, and the seminar tone grates. But two ideas outlived it entirely: the circle of influence versus the circle of concern, and the urgent/important matrix that every pro...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey