‘Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.’ With excellent framing, relatable examples, and easy ways of application, James Clear does a great job of explaining why good habits are important, and how one can constantly create, review, and align them.
Our behaviour at any given point is driven by a whole lot of factors – the immediate neurobiological to events that happened millennia ago. Though this is far from an easy read, Robert Sapolsky peels back the layers to give the reader a better sense of what drives behaviour.
A book that I found pathbreaking, despite having been published more than 40 years ago. Metaphorical concepts are ubiquitous in our thoughts and deeds, and by changing the metaphors we live by, we can change our thinking, lives, and future.
A well-structured narrative including visual and thought exercises that does a great job of putting forth the perspective that the mind is flat (shallow) and does not have the depths we ascribe to it.
The printing press was once called the biggest source of distraction, but technology has come a long way since then, and made sure that it is extremely difficult to not get distracted! Nir Eyal provides a systematic guide, keeping things simple, to navigate our personal and professional lives and become “indistractable”.