Read Atomic Habits by James Clear to understand the power of small habits and how they can lead to significant personal growth
Csikszentmihalyi on the state of total absorption and how to live in it.
Cue, routine, reward; Duhigg on how habits work at Alcoa, Starbucks and in you.
Why underdogs win more often than the odds allow, from a girls' basketball full-court press to dyslexic chief executives.
Snap judgement: the art historians who saw a fake kouros in two seconds, and the police shooting that shows when two seconds are not enough.
Why we misread people we do not know, built around the traffic stop that ended with Sandra Bland dead in a cell.
Gladwell reopens his own 2000 book with darker cases: Miami bank fraud, a Los Angeles cheetah enclosure and the opioid epidemic.
Nineteen New Yorker pieces, from Cesar Millan reading dogs to why there are dozens of mustards and only one ketchup.
A woman shut in a nursery for a rest cure starts reading the wallpaper and finds a figure creeping behind the pattern.
Freud's royal road to the unconscious, from 1899.
Don Norman on doors that need instructions and why the user is not wrong.
How small things become epidemics; Gladwell's connectors, mavens and salesmen.
Susan Cain on the power of introverts in a world that cannot stop talking.
Choice architecture and how a default option changes what people do; Thaler's Nobel idea.
System 1 and System 2, and every bias you have; Kahneman's Nobel work for readers.
Carol Dweck's fixed versus growth mindset; the book every school quotes.
Ten thousand hours, Canadian hockey birthdays and why the Beatles were good; Gladwell on success.
Van der Kolk on trauma living in the body and how it heals; years on the bestseller list.
Morgan Housel's nineteen short lessons on how people actually think about money.
Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.
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