Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
By: Gary Rogowski
3.85
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previo…
Want to Read $ 8.49If you liked the biography memoir plot in Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction by Gary Rogowski , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, ha… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Michael Pollan's A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- memoir
- philosophy
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."-Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
"Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of wha…"-Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
"People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our h…"-Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
2. Mastery
By: Robert Greene
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
In this book, Robert Greene demonstrates that the ultimate form of power is mastery itself. By anal… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Robert Greene's Mastery book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
- audiobook
"Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The problem is that we humans are deep conformists."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit."-Robert Greene, Mastery
3. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
By: Edward O. Thorp
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to be… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Edward O. Thorp's A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
5. Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
By: Peter Korn
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
In this moving account, we follow Korn's search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Peter Korn's Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- art
- memoir
- woodwork
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- crafts
6. The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
By: J.L. Collins , Mr. Money Mustache
4.00
Format: 240 pages,
"In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the wo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in J.L. Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- nonfiction
- self help
7. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
By: David Orr
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A cultural "biography" of Robert Frost's beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literatur… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Orr's The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- nonfiction
9. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dave Thomas's The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
10. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michael Greger's How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
11. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.00
Format: None pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
12. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dan Jones's The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
13. The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range
By: Robert Adams
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams' The New Westsignaled a paradigm shift in the photograph… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Adams's The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
14. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
By: Jocko Willink
4.30
Format: 373 pages,
FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE - AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM Jocko Willink's methods for s… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jocko Willink's Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
15. Iron John: A Book About Men
By: Robert Bly
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision o… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Bly's Iron John: A Book About Men book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
16. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
17. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lorrie Moore's I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
18. 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
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
- 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
19. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
By: Annie Duke
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Annie Duke's Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
- audiobook
20. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
21. I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
By: Ramit Sethi
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
As seen on the new NETFLIX series! The groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSE… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
- audiobook
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
23. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
By: Cameron R. Hanes
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Cameron R. Hanes's Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- audiobook
- memoir
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
24. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
By: Jonathan Martin
4.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Jonathan Martin's This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Mark Boyle's The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- memoir
- philosophy
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The High Sierra: A Love Story
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The High Sierra: A Love Story book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
27. Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
By: Gary Rogowski
3.85
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previo… read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- art
- self help
- woodwork
- memoir
- philosophy
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
28. Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
By: Valerie Trouet
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, how… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Valerie Trouet's Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"happy to share our hard-earned tree-ring data with one another and with the broader science community on the International Tree-Ring Data Bank,* a publicly accessible internet database hosted by the …"-Valerie Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
"Of en hoe een samenleving op de onmiddellijke dreiging van een catastrofe reageert, is afhankelijk van haar culturele waarden en hoe deze tot uiting komen in haar sociaal-economische structuur – denk…"-Valerie Trouet, Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
29. The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History
By: Robert Penn
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we ha… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Robert Penn's The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- art
- woodwork
- memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
30. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
By: Wendell Berry
3.68
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' T… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines."-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"How, I am asking, can women improve themselves by submitting to the same specialization, degradation, trivialization, and tyrannization of work that men have submitted to? And that question is made l…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution?…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
31. Stand Out of Our Light
By: James Williams
4.01
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in James Williams's Stand Out of Our Light book and Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
"Do we conjure up an image of a "monster" at whom to direct our blame, and take a path which, while psychologically rewarding, is likely to distract from the goal of enacting change in the real world?…"-James Williams, Stand Out of Our Light
