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Hack Your Brain
Neuroscience and psychology, distilled into things you can actually use.
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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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Barbara Oakley · 2014
A Mind for Numbers
Technical mastery is not a gift. It is a loop: focus, release, retrieve, and return.
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Jeff Hawkins
A Thousand Brains
Intelligence is not where one model wins. It is where many models learn to agree.
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Kristen Willeumier
Biohack Your Brain
A better brain is not usually built by adding more. It is built by removing what keeps repair from happening.
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John Medina
Brain Rules
A better brain day is mostly a design problem.
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Joe Dispenza · 2012
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
A new self begins as an unfamiliar state you are willing to practice before the old world knows what to do with you.
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Rick Hanson, Richard Mendius
Buddha's Brain
The mind may chase what is wrong by default. Practice teaches it how to keep what is nourishing.
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Thibaut Meurisse
Dopamine Detox
Make ordinary life vivid enough that you stop needing every hour to be intensified.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Emotions Are Made
The feeling is real. The category is made.
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Michael Pollan · 2018
How to Change Your Mind
The mind changes when wonder becomes safe enough to study and disciplined enough to integrate.
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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein · 2008
Nudge
A good nudge does not win by force. It wins by arranging the path so your better intention is the easiest one to keep.
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Joshua Foer · 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein
Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character.
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Maxwell Maltz · 1960
Psycho-Cybernetics
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
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Rolf Dobelli · 2011
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Clear thinking is not the absence of bias. It is the habit of catching your favorite mistake before it spends your future.
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Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Body Keeps the Score
Healing is not forgetting. It is living in the present without your body being hijacked by the past.
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Steve Peters · 2012
The Chimp Paradox
Your Chimp is not bad. It is emotional, powerful, and yours to manage before it manages you.
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Daniel J. Levitin
The Organized Mind
The goal is not to become a human filing cabinet. The goal is to think clearly in a world that keeps trying to scatter your attention.
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Jose Silva
The Silva Mind Control Method
Change feels less mystical when it becomes a ritual of state, image, and repetition.
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Alex Korb · 2015
The Upward Spiral
The upward spiral begins when one small action gives the brain evidence that the next small action is possible.
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Kelly McGonigal · 2011
The Willpower Instinct
The pause is where willpower stops being punishment and becomes care for the person you are becoming.
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Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney · 2011
Willpower
The secret of willpower is not to spend the whole day proving you have it. It is to build a life where the best choice costs less.
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Daniel G. Amen
You, Happier
A happier life is not found by chasing a feeling. It is built by caring for the brain that generates it.
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