5 best-selling science books like Learn Like a Pro by Barbara Oakley

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Learn Like a Pro

By: Barbara Oakley

4.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A book for learners of all ages containing the best and most updated advice on learning from neuros…

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1. How to Become a Straight-A Student

By: Cal Newport

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only… read more

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  • productivity
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
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2. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more

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  • productivity
  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
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3. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

By: Benny Lewis

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages--all self-taught--runs the largest language-learning blo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • education
  • self help
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4. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

By: Sönke Ahrens

3.42

Format: 320 pages,

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  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • education
  • self help

5. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

By: Robert Pool , K. Anders Ericsson

4.03

Format: None pages, ebook

A survey of the psychology of expertise, providing techniques for developing mastery of any skill, … read more

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6. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

By: John C. Maxwell

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Only one thing stands between you and success. It isn't experience. It isn't talent. World-renowned… read more

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7. How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out

By: Cal Newport

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Do Less, Live More, Get Accepted What if getting into your reach schools didn't require four years … read more

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8. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

By: Benedict Carey

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Power of Habit andThinking, Fast and Slowcomes a practical, playful, and en… read more

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9. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

By: Cal Newport

3.36

Format: 96 pages, ebook

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more

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10. Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

By: Gabriel Wyner

4.23

Format: None pages,

The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who've despaired of ever learning a foreign l… read more

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11. Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People

By: Ken Watanabe

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

Problem Solving 101 started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinkin… read more

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12. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
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13. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
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14. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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15. Digital Zettelkasten: Principles, Methods, & Examples

By: David Kadavy

3.72

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you an academic, author, or blogger or anyone else who wants to make writing a breeze? The Zet… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • education
  • audiobook
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16. Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

By: Scott H. Young

3.95

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and ad… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."

-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

"Learning, at its core, is a broadening of horizons, of seeing things that were previously invisible and of recognizing capabilities within yourself that you didn't know existed"

-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

"In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering. In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the e…"

-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

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17. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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18. Learn Like a Pro

By: Barbara Oakley

4.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A book for learners of all ages containing the best and most updated advice on learning from neuros… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Oakley's Learn Like a Pro book and Barbara Oakley's Learn Like a Pro

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • education
  • science
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19. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

By: Stanislas Dehaene

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • psychology
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

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20. High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

By: Brendon Burchard

4.13

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsesse… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"release tension, set intention"

-Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

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21. Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

By: Peter Hollins

3.75

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Expertise pays; polymathy pays exponentially. Build a world-class skillset that will make you uniqu… read more

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  • productivity
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help

12 must-read psychology books like Learn Like a Pro by Barbara Oakley

Transform Your Habits

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Tiago Forte

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

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15 Best audiobook books like Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte

Transform Your Habits

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Tiago Forte

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

4.30

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