Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t…
Want to Read $ 8.99"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
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1. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
By: Cal Newport
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this sk… read more
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2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
By: None , Matthew Walker
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker pr… read more
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"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
4. 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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"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
5. 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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6. The Psychology of Money
By: Morgan Housel
4.30
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavio… read more
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"Saving is the gap between your ego and your income."-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
"Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money."-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
"To grasp why people bury themselves in debt, you don’t need to study interest rate: you need to sturdy the history of greed , insecurity and optimism."-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
7. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
By: Adam M. Grant
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the … read more
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8. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
By: Peter Attia
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more
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9. 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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10. Four Thousand Weeks
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.22
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more
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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
11. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
By: Michael Easter
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more
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12. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
13. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
14. 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
15. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
16. 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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"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
17. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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18. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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19. 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
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"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
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
21. 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
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"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
