Book Notes & Summaries

Hooked: How to build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked provides practical insights for app developers and startup founders to create user habits that will have their users coming back for more.

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

An empirical argument in favor of more limited working hours and greater understanding of the benefits of active rest as a means of raising...

The New One Minute Manager

A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable

With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get A Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial...

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com

Discover the outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring revenue to Salesforce.com, almost doubling...

The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

The path to your life’s work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life’s work...

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem...

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

To this day, McCormack’s business classic remains a must-read for executives and managers at every level, featuring straight-talking advice...

Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts

Best-selling author and marketer Ryan Holiday calls such works and artists perennial sellers. How do they endure and thrive while most books...

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them - and find out, in...

Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook

Author and four-time founder/CEO Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't

For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse...

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs...

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

An insightful new book from the multimillion-copy bestselling author Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization based on their work...

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store...

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares his personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking in. For Dr. Price and many others, Autism is a deep source of uniqueness and beauty.

Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings

The author was an introvert whose shyness kept him from getting the results in life he wanted. When he decided to devote his life to betterment, everything changed. This is his story and how he found joy. It will be the blueprint for your transformation, too. You’ll love this practical, no frills program, because the results are easy to achieve once you’ve decided to Master Your Emotions.

The Mental Toughness Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facing Life's Challenges, Managing Negative Emotions, and Overcoming Adversity with Courage and Poise

If you're tired of feeling like giving up when life gets tough, grab your copy of THE MENTAL TOUGHNESS HANDBOOK today! Start training your mind to endure stress and pressure, face adversity with courage, and boldly weather any storm.

Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

Distilling more than 20 years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches, and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer has created a clear, solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better - no matter how anxious they feel.

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D. Burns, M.D. outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you noted for your empathy? Your conscientiousness? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and Dr. Elaine Aron’s The Highly Sensitive Person is the life-changing guide you’ll want in your toolbox.

Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

Distilling more than 20 years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches, and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer has created a clear, solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better - no matter how anxious they feel.

Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach

When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge readers to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating.

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

#1 International Bestseller This book has helped tens of thousands of men build their best body ever. Will you be next? If you want to get bigger, leaner, and stronger without steroids, good genetics, extreme dieting, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym . . . you want to read this book. Because here’s the deal: Building lean muscle and burning stubborn fat isn't nearly as complicated you’ve been led to believe.

The Second Mountain

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community.

The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks

The Brain Fog Fix is an easy-to-follow three-week program designed to help naturally restore three of your brain’s most crucial hormones: serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol. Rebalancing these chemicals will in turn enable the rest of your brain’s chemistry to reach optimal levels.

The War of Art

A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul.

The Power of Self-Confidence

The Power of Self Confidence explains that confidence is "mental fitness." It can be developed by engaging in a series of regular exercises...

How Emotions Are Made

A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding...

The Amphetamine Debate

This book covers both sides of Adderall prescription and use. It discusses the history of amphetamine and related stimulants; ADHD and the use...

The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD

Physician-researcher Dr. Lidia Zylowska has created an 8-step program for using mindfulness practice (attention and awareness training) to overcome the...

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt...

The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the definitive handbook for anyone affected by Asperger's syndrome (AS). Now including...

When Breath Becomes Air

This exquisite memoir by an idealistic young neurosurgeon asks What makes a life worth living? and makes a profound graduation...

Stillness is the Key

In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead.

Tribe of Mentors

A compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world’s top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists...

The New One Minute Manager

A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable

With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get A Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial...

Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking

These are not shortcuts, which produce often dubious short-term gains, but ethical "smartcuts" that eliminate unnecessary effort and yield...

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand to South Africa, where you'll see how seemingly "insignificant"...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, "The Five...

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

Now the first and best book of its kind has been rebooted to tame the complexities of modern times and will teach you how to communicate with...

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it.

Master Your Motivation: A Practical Guide to Unstick Yourself, Build Momentum and Sustain Long-Term Motivation

Master Your Motivation is a clear and concise walkthrough that demonstrates how to regain your motivation. Through Thibaut’s straight-to-the-point instructions, you’ll learn how to build motivation and overcome procrastination. As a result, you will remove guilt and move forward with your life.

The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

In The Heart to Start, David Kadavy takes you through his journey from cubicle-dweller to best-selling author, showing you how to systematically break through creative resistance, overcome perfectionism, and bring your work into the world.

Courage Is Calling

In Courage Is Calling, Ryan Holiday breaks down the elements of fear, an expression of cowardice, the elements of courage, an expression of bravery, and lastly, the elements of heroism, an expression of valor. Through engaging stories about historic and contemporary leaders, including Charles De Gaulle, Florence Nightingale, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Holiday shows you how to conquer fear and practice courage in your daily life.

The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

The Confident Mind is a complete guide to confidence: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it, and how to rely upon it when your performance matters most.

Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

With fascinating research from the field of motivation science and compelling stories of people who learned to motivate themselves, Get It Done illuminates invaluable strategies for pulling yourself in whatever direction you want to go—so you can achieve your goals while staying healthy, clearheaded, and happy.

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible.

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

Jim Kwik, the world’s #1 brain coach, has written the owner’s manual for mental expansion and brain fitness. Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more--more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement--by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods.

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters.

Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations

Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation—showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.

The Motivation Hacker

The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. From...

Tribe of Mentors

A compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world’s top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists...

The Power of Self-Confidence

The Power of Self Confidence explains that confidence is "mental fitness." It can be developed by engaging in a series of regular exercises...

The New One Minute Manager

A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable

With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get A Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial...

The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

The path to your life’s work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life’s work...

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

THE NOW HABIT offers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore’s...

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them - and find out, in...

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

With the same sharp eye, quick wit, and narrative drive that marked his bestsellers The Game, The Dirt, and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star...

Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking

These are not shortcuts, which produce often dubious short-term gains, but ethical "smartcuts" that eliminate unnecessary effort and yield...

Creating a Kaizen Culture

Transforming a culture is far more about emotional growth than technical maturity. Co-written by leaders at the Kaizen Institute, Creating...

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs...

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt...

When Breath Becomes Air

This exquisite memoir by an idealistic young neurosurgeon asks What makes a life worth living? and makes a profound graduation...

The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think

Without any of the sugarcoating often found in the modern hyper-positive self-help genres, Robert Pantano attempts to provide the value of motivation and personal development through unwavering philosophical honesty.

Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.

The Mental Toughness Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facing Life's Challenges, Managing Negative Emotions, and Overcoming Adversity with Courage and Poise

If you're tired of feeling like giving up when life gets tough, grab your copy of THE MENTAL TOUGHNESS HANDBOOK today! Start training your mind to endure stress and pressure, face adversity with courage, and boldly weather any storm.

How to Listen with Intention: The Foundation of True Connection, Communication, and Relationships

Ease people’s burdens, and they will help you with yours. If you want to improve the quality of your relationships, understand conflict resolution, hear people’s deepest desires, and jump into people’s inner circles, this is the book for you.

The Myth of Doing: Managing guilt, shame, anxiety, regret and self-judgment

This book validates who we are and what we do, despite our mind’s disapproving theories. The Myth of Doing speaks to the awareness that the mere state of being alive automatically puts us into activity, which means we are bound to whatever that action is in any particular moment.

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives.

Thrilled to Death: How the Endless Pursuit of Pleasure Is Leaving Us Numb

In this insightful book, Dr. Hart explores the stark rise in a phenomenon known as anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure or happiness.

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible.

Stillness is the Key

In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead.

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking

Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is Hygge. Loosely translated, Hygge—pronounced Hoo-ga—is a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. "Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience," Wiking explains. "It is about being with the people we love. A feeling of home. A feeling that we are safe."

Personal Wisdom: Making Sense of You, Others and the Meaning of Life Updated Edition, Advanced Life Skills

Your best life requires your best decisions. To do that you must be independent of outside forces and develop your own perspective. Human performance consultant Bob Brown shows you the way.

On the Shortness of Life

In On the Shortness of Life - a letter was written to Paulinus, a friend of Seneca’s - Seneca focuses on how much time we’re given in which...

The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Why should modern psychotherapists be interested in philosophy, especially ancient philosophy? Why should philosophers be interested in...

Trust Me, I’m Lying

Trust Me, I’m Lying (2012) is an in-depth exposé of today’s news culture, which is primarily channeled through online media sites called blogs...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in...

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty

The best-seller that helps you say: "I just said 'no' and I don't feel guilty!" Are you letting your kids get away with murder? Are you allowing...

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story...

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto Book 4)

Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability...

The Laws of Human Nature

Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight...

The Four Agreements

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based...

The More You Do The Better You Feel: How to Overcome Procrastination and Live a Happier Life

The Solution To Your Habitual Procrastination Is Here! Learn the golden rules of overcoming procrastination. Stop falling victim to the downward cycle of procrastination and depression. Stop feeling overwhelmed and immobilized with fear by learning how to effectively cope with your tasks and responsibilities. Become a "do"-er by learning easy to use and highly effective new tool - The J.O.T. Method™.

Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities.

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.

The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds-Not Crushes-Your Soul

Join thousands of readers and learn about the foundations of sustainable excellence and concrete habits for peak performance and a more genuine kind of success.

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives.

Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul's brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Dr. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting.

Stop Asking Questions: How to Lead High-Impact Interviews and Learn Anything from Anyone

After a decade of honing his craft, Warner shares how to lead deeper, more meaningful conversations with people you admire. He also reveals his strategy for building a multi-million dollar podcast business: How to book exciting guests, prepare for interviews, scale your revenue, and much more.

Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

Distilling more than 20 years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches, and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer has created a clear, solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better - no matter how anxious they feel.

Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing.

Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach

When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge readers to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating.

Deep Work

In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite.

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

Jim Kwik, the world’s #1 brain coach, has written the owner’s manual for mental expansion and brain fitness. Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more--more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement--by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods.

Indistractable

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.

The Book in the Box Method

Max and Obront developed a process that allows you to get your ideas into a book—in your words and even your voice—and it just ...

Tribe of Mentors

A compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world’s top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists...

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians...

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

An empirical argument in favor of more limited working hours and greater understanding of the benefits of active rest as a means of raising...

The New One Minute Manager

A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.

Eat That Frog! : 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for...

Evolve Your Brain

Joe Dispenza, DC, has spent decades studying the human mind - how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same...

The 4-Hour Workweek

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially...

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work...

Atomic Habits

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again...

How to Listen with Intention: The Foundation of True Connection, Communication, and Relationships

Ease people’s burdens, and they will help you with yours. If you want to improve the quality of your relationships, understand conflict resolution, hear people’s deepest desires, and jump into people’s inner circles, this is the book for you.

How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

When deeply understood and applied, these five simple concepts—what Richo calls the five A's—form the basis of mature love.

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

What if you could defuse tension and create accord in even the most volatile situations - just by changing the way you spoke? Over the past 35 years, Marshall Rosenberg has done just that, peacefully resolving conflicts in families, schools, businesses, and governments in 30 countries all over the world.

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you noted for your empathy? Your conscientiousness? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and Dr. Elaine Aron’s The Highly Sensitive Person is the life-changing guide you’ll want in your toolbox.

The 50th Law

Each of the 10 chapters in the book explains a factor of fearlessness and begins by telling how 50 Cent learned this Fearless Philosophy in...

Captivate : The Science of Succeeding with People

As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces that drive us. And she’s cracked the...

Mistakes Were Made but Not by Me

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the...

How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less

Whether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of...

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books...

30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

Now the first and best book of its kind has been rebooted to tame the complexities of modern times and will teach you how to communicate with...