Decision Making

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan · 1995

Keep the candle lit. Ask how we know, and be glad when the answer changes your mind.

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

Fragility hides in systems that need the world to stay gentle; strength begins when disorder starts paying rent.

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Eric Barker · 2017

The right tree is the place where your odd branch gets sunlight.

Clear Thinking

Shane Parrish · 2023

Clear thinking is not a personality trait. It is an environment you build before pressure starts making decisions for you.

Decisive

Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2013

A better decision is rarely the loudest option. It is the one that survives alternatives, evidence, distance, and a plan for being wrong.

Factfulness

Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund · 2018

The goal is not to feel hopeful. It is to become harder to fool.

Nudge

Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein · 2008

A good nudge does not win by force. It wins by arranging the path so your better intention is the easiest one to keep.

Switch

Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2010

For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently.

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli · 2011

Clear thinking is not the absence of bias. It is the habit of catching your favorite mistake before it spends your future.

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande · 2009

The checklist is not about making experts less expert. It is about making expertise reliable when the room gets loud.

The Dip

Seth Godin · 2007

Quit the wrong things early so you have the strength to push through the right dip.

The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene · 2018

Mastery of human nature begins the moment you stop exempting yourself from it.

The Power of Regret

Daniel H. Pink · 2022

Regret is not a command to live in the past. It is a dispatch from the past asking you to live more deliberately now.

When

Daniel H. Pink · 2018

Timing is not the art of squeezing more into the day. It is the art of giving the right moment the right job.

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig · 2020

You do not need a perfect alternate life before you are allowed to inhabit this one.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

A first impression is useful when it becomes a question before it becomes a verdict.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam M. Grant · 2021

The mark of intelligence is not defending a belief forever. It is knowing when the belief has stopped earning its place.

Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday · 2019

Stillness is not the absence of movement; it is the presence of command.

Smarter Faster Better

Charles Duhigg · 2016

Productivity is not doing more things; it is choosing the mental model that makes the right things move.

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert · 2006

Future-you is a stranger; ask better questions before promising them paradise.

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson · 2021

Do not confuse order with life. Keep enough structure to stand, then choose the burden that asks you to grow.

David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell · 2013

The point is not that weakness is secretly easy. It is that the giant's strength often creates a blind spot.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Scott Adams · 2013

A goal can disappoint you once. A system can keep paying you while you learn.

How to Not Die Alone

Logan Ury · 2021

Love is not found by perfect filtering; it is built by better noticing, choosing, and repairing.

Best Loser Wins

Tom Hougaard · 2022

Normal thinking produces normal results. In this game, normal results are a slow account death.

You're Going to Die and You Haven't Started Living Yet

Laura Falces & Uli Moreno Montana · 2026

Time is the only thing you spend that you cannot earn back. Every principle in the book is a consequence of that one asymmetry.

Trading in the Zone

Mark Douglas · 2000

Anything can happen. You don't need to know what is going to happen next in order to make money.

Immunity to Change

Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey · 2009

The brake is not your enemy. It was built to protect you from something. Find out whether that something is still there.

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2001

Be humble when the dice favour you and generous when they turn on someone else. They were never yours to command.

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield · 2013

Rehearse the trouble, sweat the details, arrive as a zero. Calm is something you prepare.

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 2016

A good algorithm does not make life mechanical. It gives judgment a sharper edge and anxiety a smaller job.

How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

John C. Maxwell · 2009

Better thinking is not luck. It is a scheduled discipline.

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Michael Schur · 2022

Perfection is not the assignment. Trying to be a little better is.

Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

Darius Foroux · 2017

A clear mind is edited, not empty.

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke · 2018

A good decision is a bet made honestly before the result is known.

Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life

Jennifer Shahade

The point is not to predict every move. It is to see the board from a square your fear forgot to check.

You Are Not So Smart

David McRaney · 2011

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