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HourLife Collection · 18 books · 126 insights

High Performance

Books for people who want to operate at their best — sustainably.

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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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Michael Ellsberg

The Education of Millionaires

The most important investment you will ever make is in yourself — in your skills, your network, and your ability to create value in the real world. That education never ends and never depreciates.

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Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

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BJ Fogg 2019

Tiny Habits

You are not the problem. The problem is your system. Tiny habits give you the right system.

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Kevin Horsley

Unlimited Memory

Your brain has no limits. The only boundaries are the ones you place on it yourself.

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Joseph T. Hallinan

Why We Make Mistakes

The greatest risk is not making a mistake. It's being so certain you haven't made one that you stop looking.

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Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, or otherwise prevented from passing on the message. Not one of them.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Let curiosity make the first mark, then let devotion return tomorrow.

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Cal Newport

Deep Work

Depth is not the absence of distraction. It is the presence of a hard thing, protected long enough for your mind to change shape around it.

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Edoardo Binda Zane

Effective Decision-Making

A good decision is not a guess that got lucky. It is a process you can inspect, repeat, and improve.

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Ryan Holiday

The Obstacle Is the Way

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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Peter Hollins

The Science of Self-Discipline

The goal is not to be a person of iron will. The goal is to design a life where iron will is rarely required.

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Angela Duckworth

Grit

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

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Mortimer J. Adler

How to Read a Book

A demanding book is not conquered by speed. It is understood by active questions, fair judgment, and the patience to read above yourself.

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Jim Kwik 2020

Limitless

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

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Peter C. Brown, Mark McDaniel

Make It Stick

Learning is deeper and more durable when it is effortful. Learning that is easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.

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Karl M. Kapp, Robyn Defelice

Microlearning

Microlearning is not about dumbing content down — it is about focusing it up.

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Kam Knight

Speed Reading

Reading faster is not the goal. Reading more of what matters — more deeply, more often, with more ease — is the goal.

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Grant Cardone

The 10x Rule

You do not get 10X outcomes from 1X commitments.

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