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Reading Collection

High Performance

Books for people who want to operate at their best — sustainably.

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18

Books

126

Insights

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Books in Order

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Read 01

The Education of Millionaires

Michael Ellsberg

The most important investment you will ever make is in yourself — in your skills, your network, and your ability to create value in the real world. That education never ends and never depreciates.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

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Read 03

Tiny Habits

BJ Fogg · 2019

You are not the problem. The problem is your system. Tiny habits give you the right system.

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Unlimited Memory

Kevin Horsley

Your brain has no limits. The only boundaries are the ones you place on it yourself.

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Why We Make Mistakes

Joseph T. Hallinan

The greatest risk is not making a mistake. It's being so certain you haven't made one that you stop looking.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, or otherwise prevented from passing on the message. Not one of them.

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Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

Let curiosity make the first mark, then let devotion return tomorrow.

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Read 08

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Depth is not the absence of distraction. It is the presence of a hard thing, protected long enough for your mind to change shape around it.

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Effective Decision-Making

Edoardo Binda Zane

A good decision is not a guess that got lucky. It is a process you can inspect, repeat, and improve.

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The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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The Science of Self-Discipline

Peter Hollins

The goal is not to be a person of iron will. The goal is to design a life where iron will is rarely required.

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Grit

Angela Duckworth

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

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Read 13

How to Read a Book

Mortimer J. Adler

A demanding book is not conquered by speed. It is understood by active questions, fair judgment, and the patience to read above yourself.

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Read 14

Limitless

Jim Kwik · 2020

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

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Read 15

Make It Stick

Peter C. Brown, Mark McDaniel

Learning is deeper and more durable when it is effortful. Learning that is easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.

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Read 16

Microlearning

Karl M. Kapp, Robyn Defelice

Microlearning is not about dumbing content down — it is about focusing it up.

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Read 17

Speed Reading

Kam Knight

Reading faster is not the goal. Reading more of what matters — more deeply, more often, with more ease — is the goal.

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Read 18

The 10x Rule

Grant Cardone

You do not get 10X outcomes from 1X commitments.

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