Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
A Berkeley sleep scientist explains how sleep shapes memory, mood, and health, and what happens when we miss it.
2,755-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: psychology
75 books with this tag.
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The Gifts of Imperfection
Shame research turned into ten guideposts for dropping perfectionism and living with courage and connection.
2,799-word summary · 12 min read
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Gray's Mars-and-Venus guide to why men withdraw and women talk, and how small daily acts of care keep a relationship working.
2,073-word summary · 9 min read
Factfulness
A doctor shows why we misread global trends and offers ten habits for seeing progress clearly.
2,247-word summary · 10 min read
The Psychology of Money
Housel retells 19 short money stories on luck, compounding and knowing when enough is enough, arguing behavior shapes wealth more than math skill.
2,504-word summary · 11 min read
The Body Keeps the Score
A psychiatrist explains how trauma lives in the body and what helps people recover, from EMDR to movement and connection.
2,172-word summary · 10 min read
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Shame research turned into a case for showing up vulnerable at work, at home, and in love.
2,062-word summary · 9 min read
A New Earth
Tolle maps ego pain and shows how presence can loosen roles, thoughts, and suffering.
1,909-word summary · 8 min read
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Twenty four case histories where strange neurology meets full personhood.
1,930-word summary · 9 min read
Start with Why
Great leaders start with Why before How and What, from Apple to King.
2,206-word summary · 10 min read
12 Rules for Life
Twelve essays on responsibility from posture to truth to petting cats.
2,045-word summary · 9 min read
Talking to Strangers
Gladwell asks why we misread strangers, from spies and frauds to traffic stops, and why good intentions still fail.
2,836-word summary · 13 min read
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
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
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
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
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.
2,306-word summary · 10 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.
2,207-word summary · 10 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 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
Outliers: The Story of Success
Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.
1,934-word summary · 9 min read
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rebel McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched's ward, narrated by the silent Chief Bromden who sees everything.
1,991-word summary · 9 min read
Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
2,012-word summary · 9 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