29 must-read nonfiction books like Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people by Polina Marinova Pompliano

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Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people

By: Polina Marinova Pompliano

3.92

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great? After five years of writing The Pr…

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Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

1. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • biography
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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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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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"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

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

4. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam M. Grant

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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  • productivity
  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

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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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"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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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"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. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

By: Michael Easter

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more

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  • productivity
  • science
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."

-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

Cover of Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly

9. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

By: Kevin Kelly

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wi… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"The end is almost always the beginning of something better."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"The very best thing you can do for your kids is to love your spouse."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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10. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • personal development
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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11. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of What I Learned About Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad

12. What I Learned About Investing from Darwin

By: Pulak Prasad

4.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are un… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
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Cover of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams

13. Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

By: Matt Abrahams

3.74

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public spea… read more

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  • business
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"Be obvious’ is the most powerful, creative mantra that there is,"

-Matt Abrahams, Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

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14. Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
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  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg

15. Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

By: Brad Stulberg

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset … read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success (The Scott Adams Success Series) by Scott Adams

16. Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success (The Scott Adams Success Series)

By: Scott Adams

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

In Reframe Your Brain, Scott Adams, the contrarian genius behind Dilbert and author of the most inf… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours by Noah Kagan

17. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

By: Noah Kagan

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a si… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success by Liz Moody

18. 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

By: Liz Moody

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Liz Moody Podcast comes a science-backed guide to creating your best life. … read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future by Eric Jorgenson

19. The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.23

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you thrive in an unknown future? When you can’t see past the world we have now, look to vis… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of Calm Your Mind with Food: A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety by Uma Naidoo

20. Calm Your Mind with Food: A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety

By: Uma Naidoo

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary look at the surprising connections between anxiety, immunity, and gut health, with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You by Michael Gervais

21. The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You

By: Michael Gervais

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what m… read more

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  • self help
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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
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Cover of Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people by Polina Marinova Pompliano

22. Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people

By: Polina Marinova Pompliano

3.92

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great? After five years of writing The Pr… read more

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  • productivity
  • science
  • personal development
  • biography
  • health
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

23. 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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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future by Dan  Koe

24. The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future

By: Dan Koe

3.92

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Look around. We are on the brink of catastrophe. A dystopia of excessive pleasure, comfort, a… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
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Cover of Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger

25. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

By: Lee Berger

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."

-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"

-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"

-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

Cover of Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today by Hal Hershfield

26. Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today

By: Hal Hershfield

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set your future self up for success with the “fascinating, profound, and immediately practical guid… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning by Ana Lorena Fabrega

27. The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning

By: Ana Lorena Fabrega

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

28. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
Cover of The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day by Jake Eagle

29. The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

By: Jake Eagle

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover a clinically proven way to reduce inflammation, stress, loneliness, and burnout  while imp… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
"Awe Spectrum - Subtle. Expansive. Awegasmic."

-Jake Eagle, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

"5 Patterns of Strife - Attachment. Resisting. Catastrophizing. Victimizing. Withdrawing."

-Jake Eagle, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

"The tree that moves some to tears of joy is to others a green thing that stands in the way. - William Blake"

-Jake Eagle, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. - William Butler Yeats"

-Jake Eagle, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

24 Top self help books like Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people by Polina Marinova Pompliano

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

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Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

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