Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
nonfiction + psychology
13 books tagged both “nonfiction” and “psychology”.
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Think and Grow Rich
Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.
2,458-word summary · 11 min read
Quiet
Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet.
2,898-word summary · 13 min read
Who Moved My Cheese?
A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to return.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Fast judgments can beat analysis, and fail hard, in Gladwell's 2005 book on snap thinking.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
The Power of Habit
Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste to the bus boycott.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
Freakonomics
Levitt asks why cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers and crime drops share incentives.
4,055-word summary · 18 min read
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read
Atomic Habits
A practical walkthrough of Atomic Habits: why tiny changes compound, how identity shapes behavior, and the four laws Clear uses to build good habits and break…
2,170-word summary · 10 min read