Ranked: Ways To Help Oneself and Life Lessons

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Ways To Help Oneself and Life Lessons


  1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  2. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
  3. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
  4. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  5. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  6. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  7. In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
  8. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  9. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
  10. [Upcoming] Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
  11. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  12. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  13. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  14. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  15. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
  16. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  17. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  18. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
  19. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
  20. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
  21. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  22. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
  23. Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling
  24. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
  25. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different by Chantel Prat
  26. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  27. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  28. Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
  29. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  30. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  31. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  32. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  33. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  34. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
  35. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  36. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  37. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
  38. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
  39. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
  40. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
  41. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  42. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  43. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
  44. Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
  45. If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
  46. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
  47. Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
  48. The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
  49. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  50. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  51. Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life by Thomas Jordan
  52. You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
  53. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  54. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
  55. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  56. Five Questions to Finding Peace of Mind and Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia
  57. The Age of Paradox by Charles Handy
  58. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  59. The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith
  60. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
  61. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
  62. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Fiction:
  1. [Upcoming] The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
  2. Notes To My Biographer by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)