27 must-read nonfiction books like Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career by Herbert Lui

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Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career

By: Herbert Lui

3.98

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Have you ever felt frustrated, blocked, or unable to make progress on a creative pursuit? Or felt t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career by Herbert Lui , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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2. How To Get Rich

By: Felix Dennis

4.17

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, the… read more

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"There is absolutely nothing more likely to dampen the prospects of becoming rich than a nice, fat, regular salary check."

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

"Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Identify It, Hire It, Nurture It, Reward It, Protect It. And when the time comes, Fire …"

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

"When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and cont…"

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

"Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good sa…"

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

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3. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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4. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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5. A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

By: Paul E. Miller

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Author Paul Miller shares his insights and conclusions about how to connect the broken pieces of yo… read more

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6. A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Rebecca Solnit

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more

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7. The Drowned World

By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more

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8. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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9. 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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10. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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11. 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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12. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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13. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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14. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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15. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

By: Daniel E. Lieberman

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging s… read more

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"Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick."

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthrop…"

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from …"

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"For generation after generation, our ancestors young and old woke up each morning thankful to be alive and with no choice but to spend several hous walking, digging, and doing other physical activiti…"

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

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16. 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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"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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17. 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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18. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

By: Ali Abdaal

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more

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Cover of The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael   Lewis

19. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

By: Michael Lewis

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more

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20. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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21. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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

22. 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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"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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23. 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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24. Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books, 36)

By: Russell Davies

3.88

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Don’t try to be interesting. That’s a fool’s errand.  Do interesting instead. Make the world light … read more

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Cover of The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life by Paul  Millerd

25. The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

By: Paul Millerd

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

With 40k global sales, The Pathless Path has become a surprise best-seller. The book has received a… read more

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Cover of Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down by Kathleen   Smith

26. Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down

By: Kathleen Smith

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of You Are a Badass and The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, a helpful and h… read more

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27. Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career

By: Herbert Lui

3.98

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Have you ever felt frustrated, blocked, or unable to make progress on a creative pursuit? Or felt t… read more

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28. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more

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29. Mindful Creative: How to understand and deal with the highs and lows of creative life, career and business

By: Radim Malinic

4.40

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Take the first step towards regaining control of your creative life.What if you could take control … read more

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30. Art For Money: Up Your Freelance Game and Get Paid What You’re Worth

By: Michael Ardelean

4.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Art for Money is a small and mighty volume that covers the essentials every creative freelancers ne… read more

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6 must-read finance books like Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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Gary Stevenson

4.26

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