The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
By: Steve Stewart-Williams
4.25
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human a…
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1. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
By: David Deida
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? … read more
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2. Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World's Fittest Athletes
By: None
4.26
Format: None pages,
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3. Lying
By: Sam Harris
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vic… read more
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4. The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
By: David M. Buss
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer t… read more
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5. Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
By: Anthony de Mello , J. Francis Stroud
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
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6. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
By: Robert Wright
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among th… read more
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7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
8. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
By: Steve Stewart-Williams
4.25
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human a… read more
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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. Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
By: Rory Sutherland
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nich… read more
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"Many pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"Not everything that makes sense works, and not everything that works makes sense."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"No living creature can evolve and survive in the real world by processing information in an objective, measured and proportionate manner."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"All too often, what matters is not whether an idea is true or effective, but whether it fits with the preconceptions of a dominant cabal."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
11. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more
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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
12. Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
By: Ryan A. Bush
4.22
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological Software Neuropsycholog… read more
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"The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell somewhere on the endless continuum of musical mastery by the end of his …"-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
"Psychitecture is a high-level design and implementation process - creative problem-solving for the subjective experience - and when utilized persistently, it can take a mind that is like a prison and…"-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
"Societal pressures work to pull you up to the line of psychological adequacy, and psychotherapy can be used when society falls short. But these aims are far too low. Falling within the current normal…"-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
"The way your mind is structured will determine the person you will become, the life you will live, and the fulfillment you will realize. When you modify your mind, you make changes to the operating s…"-Ryan A. Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
13. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
By: Kevin Simler
3.98
Format: 408 pages, ebook
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more
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"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
14. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
15. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
By: Steven Kotler
4.22
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective,… read more
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"Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intr…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Guilford also realized that divergent thinking wasn't entirely free wheeling: It had four core characteristics. Fluency, the ability to produce a great number of ideas in a short time-frame; flexibil…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Once, unfortunately, in a crisis situation (as the Greek poet Archilochus pointed out so long ago) we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Once again, th…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
16. The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch… read more
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- history
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"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of futu…"-Toby Ord, The Precipice
17. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
By: Debra Soh
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths … read more
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"Men’s behavior is, to some extent, the result of female sexual preferences. If women didn’t want to mate with masculine men, these traits would have been removed from the gene pool long ago. “Toxic m…"-Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
"Activist organizations have managed to infect much of the information that is available relating to both gender and biological sex. Any research studies that are not in agreement with this agenda are…"-Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
"Therein lies the double standard: If a child is gender-nonconforming, this is interpreted as biological and something that shouldn’t be dissuaded or tampered with. But if a child is gender-conforming…"-Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
18. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
By: Louise Perry
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more
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"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
19. Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
By: Robert Plomin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what mak… read more
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20. Science Fictions
By: Stuart Ritchie
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more
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"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions
21. When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
By: David M. Buss
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“An exceptional book” (Helen Fisher) by a leading evolutionary psychologist and sex researcher that… read more
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"Identifying evolutionary origins of nefarious behavior in no way justifies or excuses it."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
"Within-species sexual conflict arms races are analogous to arms races between predators and prey."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
"Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
"From the moment of conception, when the one tiny sperm joins the nutrient-rich egg, women are already contributing much more than the man."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
