https://pithybooks.com/tags/psychology/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “psychology”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ https://pithybooks.com/books/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup. https://pithybooks.com/books/think-and-grow-rich/ https://pithybooks.com/books/think-and-grow-rich/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success. https://pithybooks.com/books/quiet/ https://pithybooks.com/books/quiet/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet. https://pithybooks.com/books/who-moved-my-cheese/ https://pithybooks.com/books/who-moved-my-cheese/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://pithybooks.com/books/blink/ https://pithybooks.com/books/blink/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fast judgments can beat analysis, and fail hard, in Gladwell's 2005 book on snap thinking. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-power-of-habit/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-power-of-habit/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://pithybooks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/ https://pithybooks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice. https://pithybooks.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it. https://pithybooks.com/books/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/ https://pithybooks.com/books/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rebel McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched's ward, narrated by the silent Chief Bromden who sees everything. https://pithybooks.com/books/outliers/ https://pithybooks.com/books/outliers/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-tipping-point/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-tipping-point/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics. https://pithybooks.com/books/freakonomics/ https://pithybooks.com/books/freakonomics/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Levitt asks why cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers and crime drops share incentives. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fuck/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fuck/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories. https://pithybooks.com/books/atomic-habits/ https://pithybooks.com/books/atomic-habits/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 bad ones. https://pithybooks.com/books/deep-work/ https://pithybooks.com/books/deep-work/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cal Newport's Deep Work in full: what focused work actually is, why shallow busyness wins by default, and the four philosophies he recommends for protecting attention.