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- Your Brain At Work by David Rock
^ that one really influenced my thinking a lot
^ recommend starting with this one - Mindset by Carol Dweck
- So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Search for Meaningful Work by Cal Newport, one of my all time favorite bloggers
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Influencer by the authors of Crucial Conversations
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, the one that sets the bar for all the others
- Focus by Daniel Goleman
- Mind Over Mood
- The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker
- The Talent Code by Coyne "It's a myelin world"
^ talks about what deliberate practice looks like - Focus by Daniel Goleman
^ attention doesn't just change the brain, it's a more robust predictor of happiness and financial success than SES or IQ - Smart Choices, A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
^ helped me wade through the field of potential careers and decide on one without regret
one point that was very meaningful to me was that your choice can only be the best of the alternatives you've chosen among
therefore during the step where you gather your alternatives, it's best to gather as many alternatives as possible - How to Measure Anything
- Data Science for Business recommended by someone from overcomingbiasnyc
^ a google group - How Learning Works <-- this is the one from the Software Craftsmanship teaching coding class
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Nudge by Richard Thaler
- Incognito by David Eagleman, where I got the mind as committee metaphor
- happiness hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
the funny one with the guy named Haidt who writes about love - Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert, about the emotional "immune system"
- The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
- one I want to read: Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
- The Perfect Swarm
- Rock Paper Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life
- Scarcity
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Start Doing Physics
- The Honor Code
- A General Theory of Love
- Honest Signals by Sandy Pentland
- Social Physics: How New Ideas Spread by Sandy Pentland
- Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
^ the source of the return / enter story and Norman doors - Mindsight by Daniel Siegel
- The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
- The Language of Emotional Intelligence: The Five Essential Tools for Building Powerful and Effective Relationships
by Jeanne Segal - Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning
- Social by Matthew Lieberman
- Social Baseline Theory (not a book - https://lifespanlearn.org/documents/SocialBaselineTheory.pdf)
- The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
- Decisive by the Heath brothers
- Redirect by Timothy Wilson
- Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
- The Accidental Mind by David Linden
- Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
But useful in aggregate, and keeping in mind that people's intuitions still have a high probability of being right, even though it's not as high as the probability that a study is right
- Willpower Instinct, with appropriate disclaimers
- The Charisma Myth
^ good but not unadulturated; it does rely on mysticism for answers to questions which we really do need answers to. So that's a big of a cop out and a disappointment. but the ideas come out of the same work that produced Honest Signals. - How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer, despite having been recalled for his truthiness indiscretions