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Build a Career You're Proud Of
Grow, lead, and do work that matters. Books for the ambitious.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Magic
Let curiosity make the first mark, then let devotion return tomorrow.
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Brené Brown
Daring Greatly
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
Designing Your Work Life
You do not find a work life by thinking harder. You design it by building small proofs of what could be true.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
No Mud, No Lotus
The lotus does not bloom despite the mud; it blooms because the mud has been understood.
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Jonah Berger
The Catalyst
The fastest way to change minds is to stop changing minds and start changing the path.
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Michael Easter
The Comfort Crisis
Comfort is useful when it helps you recover. It becomes a crisis when it keeps you from discovering what you can carry.
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Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth
Awareness is the quiet revolution: the moment the old self is seen, a new earth has already begun.
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Joseph Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The subconscious does not argue with the picture you keep handing it. Change the picture, repeat it with feeling, and behavior begins to obey a new expectation.
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Jeff Olson
The Slight Edge
You do not rise to the level of your dreams. You compound to the level of your daily choices.
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Rob Biesenbach
Unleash the Power of Storytelling
Stories are not decoration around strategy. They are how people decide what to believe and what to do next.
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Austin Kleon · 2014
Show Your Work!
Do not wait to be discovered; become useful in public.
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Sophia Amoruso · 2014
#Girlboss
Agency gets real when taste, cash, and customer feedback meet a shipped offer.
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Lilly Singh · 2017
How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
Confidence becomes real when the receipts exist.
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Lois P. Frankel · 2004
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
Authority grows when competence stops hiding.
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Chris Guillebeau · 2012
The $100 Startup
A small offer in the market teaches more than a perfect plan in hiding.
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Ben Horowitz · 2014
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Explore the core idea, community insights, and practical actions from this read.
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Timothy Ferriss · 2017
Tribe Of Mentors
Advice becomes useful when it turns into a small experiment you can run.
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Richard Nelson Bolles · 1970
What Color Is Your Parachute?
The search gets less vague when you can describe the work, people, field, and conditions you are looking for.
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ADHD & Focus
For the restless and the distracted. Books that meet you where you are.
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Become Hard To Manipulate
A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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