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Bookworm — 248 episodes

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248: How to Live a Meaningful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

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247: The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg

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246: The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni

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245: The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr

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244: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

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243: The End of Burnout by Jonathan Malesic

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242: The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions by Joseph Nguyen

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241: Intentional by Chris Bailey

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240: Hacking the Human Mind by Richard Shotton & Michaelaaron Flicker

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239: Proust and The Squid by Maryanne Wolf

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238: Sketch Your Mind by Zsolt Viczian

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237: Toxic Grit by Amanda Goetz

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236: Wisdom Takes Work by Ryan Holiday

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235: Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath

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234: Sponsor Magnet by Justin Moore

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233: Time Anxiety by Chris Guillebeau

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232: Published by Chandler Bolt

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231: Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy

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230: The Science of Scaling by Dr. Benjamin Hardy & Blake Erickson

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229: From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks

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228: AI Snake Oil by Arvid Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

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227: Lean Learning by Pat Flynn

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226: The 5 Resets by Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

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225: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

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224: The Confident Mind by Dr. Nate Zinsser

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223: When by Daniel Pink

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222: Wild Courage by Jenny Wood

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221: The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom

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220: Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy

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219: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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218: The Catalyst by Jonah Berger

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217: Make It Stick by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel

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216: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

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215: Poor Charlie’s Almanack

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214: Simple Marketing for Smart People by Billy Broas

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213: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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212: Never Play It Safe by Chase Jarvis

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211: Anti-Time Management by Richie Norton

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210: Free Time by Jenny Blake

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209: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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208: Good Work by Paul Millerd

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207: Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks

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206: 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

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205: A System for Writing by Bob Doto

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204: The Ritual Effect by Michael Norton

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203: Hidden Genius by Polina Marinova Pompliano

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202: Uncommon Greatness by Mark Miller

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201: Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday

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200: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick

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199: Radical Candor by Kim Scott

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198: Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter

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197: Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

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196: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

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195: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

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194: Mastery by Robert Greene

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193: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

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192: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

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191: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

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190: Learn Like a Pro by Barbara Oakley & Olav Schewe

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189: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

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188: Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal

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187: Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, & Sheila Heen

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186: Same as Ever by Morgan Housel

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185: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

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184: Hidden Potential by Adam Grant

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183: Build by Tony Fadell

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182: Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish

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181: On Quality by Robert Pirsig

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180: Master of Change by Brad Stulberg

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179: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

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178: The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

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177: Life Worth Living by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz

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176: The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee

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175: Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly

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174: Quit by Annie Duke

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173: Decoding Greatness by Ron Friedman

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172: The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim

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171: The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

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170: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgensen

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169: The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd

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168: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

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167: Master Your Motivation by Susan Fowler

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166: The Future is Analog by David Sax

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165: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

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164: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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163: How to Calm Your Mind by Chris Bailey

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162: Ikigai by Héctor García & Francesc Miralles

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161: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell

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160: 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

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159: Mind Management, Not Time Management by David Kadavy

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158: Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday

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157: The Laws of Creativity by Joey Cofone

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156: Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas

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155: Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson

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154: The Great Mental Models Volume 2 by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish

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153: I Didn’t Do the Thing Today by Madeline Dore

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152: Mind Map Mastery by Tony Buzan

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151: The Story of You by Ian Morgan Cron

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150: Do the Hard Things First by Scott Allan

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149: Love + Work by Marcus Buckingham

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148: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte

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147: Hero on a Mission by Donald Miller

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146: Bittersweet by Susan Cain

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145: Things That Matter by Joshua Becker

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144: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

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143: The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky

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142: Yes to Life by Victor Frankl

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141: Creative Calling by Chase Jarvis

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140: Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer

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139: Personal Socrates by Marc Champagne

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138: How to Change by Katy Milkman

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137: Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown

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136: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

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135: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

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134: Self Control – It’s Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan

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133: Soundtracks by Jon Acuff

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132: So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

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131: A Minute to Think by Juliet Funt

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130: Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday

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129: The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul

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128: Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

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127: The Art of the Idea by John Hunt

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126: The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest

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125: Willpower Doesn’t Work by Benjamin Hardy

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124: Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray

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123: Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden

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122: Digital Body Language by Erica Dhawan

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121: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

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120: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

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119: Effortless by Greg McKeown

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118: Work the System by Sam Carpenter

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117: Think Again by Adam Grant

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116: The Art of Witty Banter by Patrick King

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115: A World Without Email by Cal Newport

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114: Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

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113: The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish

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112: The Organised Writer by Antony Johnston

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111: Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink

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110: Lead Yourself First by Raymond Kethledge & Michael Erwin

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109: Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam

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108: The Practice by Seth Godin

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107: The Motivation Code by Todd Henry

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106: Brain Wash by David & Austin Perlmutter

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105: Shorter by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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104: The Minimalist Home by Joshua Becker

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103: How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick

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102: Pick Three by Randi Zuckerberg

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101: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

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100: Ratings Adjustments & Trivia

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99: The Motive by Patrick Lencioni

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98: The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna

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97: Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle

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96: Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith

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95: Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday

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94: Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg

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93: Nudge by Richard Thaler

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92: The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll

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91: The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman

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90: Good to Great by Jim Collins

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89: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

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88: It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

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87: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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86: The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

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85: Making It All Work by David Allen

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84: Indistractable by Nir Eyal

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83: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

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82: Margin by Richard Swenson

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81: You Are Awesome by Neil Pasricha

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80: Principles by Ray Dalio

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79: SuperBetter by Jane McGonigal

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78: Ultralearning by Scott Young

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77: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

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76: Range by David Epstein

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75: Getting Results the Agile Way by J.D. Meier

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74: The Second Mountain by David Brooks

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73: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

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72: Make Time by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky

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71: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

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70: Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt

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69: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

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68: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

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67: Quiet by Susan Cain

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66: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

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65: Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter

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64: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

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63: Atomic Habits by James Clear

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62: The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

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61: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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60: The One Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

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59: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

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58: Scrum by Jeff & J.J. Sutherland

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57: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

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56: Hyperfocus by (and with) Chris Bailey

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55: The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

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54: Work Clean by Dan Charnas

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53: Boundaries by Henry Cloud

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52: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

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51: Great at Work by Morten Hansen

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50: 2018 Bookworm Draft

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49: Peak by Anders Ericsson

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48: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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47: The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family by Patrick Lencioni

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46: Busy by Tony Crabbe

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45: What’s Best Next by Matt Perman

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44: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

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43: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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42: How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

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41: 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam

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40: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

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39: The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, Sean Covey

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38: Mindset by Carol Dweck

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37: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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36: Paid to Think by David Goldsmith

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35: The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

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34: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

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33: The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant by Terry Felber

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32: The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

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31: The Power of a Positive No by William Ury

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30: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (with Josh Rensch)

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29: The Go-Getter by Peter Kyne

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28: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

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27: Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson

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26: The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington

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25: Grit by Angela Duckworth

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24: Step by Chris Capehart (with Chris Capehart)

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23: Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander

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22: The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone (with Shawn Blanc)

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21: The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

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20: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

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19: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

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18: Decisive by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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17: QBQ! The Question Behind The Question by John Miller

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16: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

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15: BrainChains by Theo Compernolle

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14: The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran, Michael Lennington

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13: Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker

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12: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

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11: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

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10: Start With Why by Simon Sinek

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9: Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

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8: The Power Of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

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7: Deep Work by Cal Newport

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6: The More Of Less by Joshua Becker

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5: Essentialism by Greg McKeown

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4: The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday

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3: The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield

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2: The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal

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1: Getting Things Done by David Allen