thinking books
Books for people that like to think.
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The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell · 1930
Unhappiness is mostly self-absorption. Russell's cure is unfashionably simple: get interested in things outside yourself.
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Hooked
Nir Eyal · 2014
The products you cannot put down were designed that way. Read it to build them, or to notice them being built on you.
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The Book of Trespass
Nick Hayes · 2021
Ninety-two percent of England is closed to you. Hayes walks into it anyway, and asks who wrote that rule.
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Humankind
Rutger Bregman · 2019
Assume people are decent and you get different institutions, different schools, different prisons. The assumption is the intervention.
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday · 2016
You do not control what happens, only what you do next. Most anxiety is a category error about which is which.
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Deep Work
Cal Newport · 2016
Concentration is a skill that has become rare exactly as it became valuable — which is the whole opportunity.
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