21 Top audiobook books like The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik

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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

By: Adam Gopnik

3.12

Format: 256 pages, ebook

"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” ―Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic Best-selling …

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

4.27

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"

-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

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2. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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3. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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4. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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5. 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
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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6. 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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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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7. 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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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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8. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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10. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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11. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • art
  • audiobook
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12. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden

13. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

By: Sander van der Linden

4.03

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Winner of the 2024 APA William James Book Award • Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book Prize •… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Whereas lies and fake news tend to be simple and sticky, science is often presented as nuanced and complex."

-Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

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14. The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

By: Adam Gopnik

3.12

Format: 256 pages, ebook

"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” ―Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic Best-selling … read more

Similar categories in Adam Gopnik's The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery book and Adam Gopnik's The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

  • art
  • self help
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • amazon
  • essays
  • writing
  • audiobook
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15. The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower

By: Morra Aarons-Mele

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely and compelling guide to managing the anxiety that comes with succeeding and leading—from e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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16. The Experience Machine

By: Andy Clark

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

17. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard

By: Joan E. Strassmann

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the specta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

By: Adam Alter

3.96

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even bu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. Higher Animals

By: Michael Specter

3.96

Format: None pages, None

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook

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4.08

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4.13

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Becca Rothfeld

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