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You don’t rise to your goals — you fall to your systemsAtomic Habits · James Clear→ 1% better every day is 37× better in a yearAtomic Habits · James Clear→ Every habit runs on a cue, routine, and rewardThe Power of Habit · Charles Duhigg→

Your mind runs on two systems: fast and slowThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Judge decisions by their quality, not their outcomeThinking in Bets · Annie Duke→ We’re irrational — but in predictable waysPredictably Irrational · Dan Ariely→ Focus on your Circle of Influence, not your Circle of ConcernThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · Stephen Covey→ The map is not the territoryScience and Sanity · Alfred Korzybski→ Losses hurt about twice as much as gains feel goodThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ The first number you hear quietly drags every guess after itThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ You go looking for what you already believeOn the failure to eliminate hypotheses · Peter Wason→ When actions and beliefs clash, the belief usually bendsA Theory of Cognitive Dissonance · Leon Festinger→ The simplest explanation that fits is usually the right oneOccam’s Razor · William of Ockham→ Never assume malice when a simple mistake explains itHanlon’s Razor · Robert J. Hanlon→ First-principles thinking: reason from what’s true, not what’s assumedThe Great Mental Models · Shane Parrish→ Inversion: solve problems backward by asking how to failPoor Charlie’s Almanack · Charlie Munger→ Second-order thinking: always ask ‘and then what?’The Most Important Thing · Howard Marks→ Chesterton’s fence: understand why it’s there before you remove itThe Thing · G.K. Chesterton→ The framing effect: how something is worded changes your choiceThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Negativity bias: bad is stronger than goodThe Power of Bad · Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney→ The endowment effect: you overvalue what you already ownThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ The availability heuristic: you judge by what comes to mind easilyThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ The mere-exposure effect: familiarity quietly becomes likingThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ The IKEA effect: we overvalue what we build ourselvesPredictably Irrational · Dan Ariely→ The halo effect: one good trait colors everything elseThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Regression to the mean: extreme results drift back toward averageThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Base-rate neglect: the vivid story makes you forget the oddsThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ The contrast effect: things look different next to what came beforeInfluence · Robert Cialdini→ The fundamental attribution error: it’s the person, you assume — but it’s often the situationThe Person and the Situation · Lee Ross & Richard Nisbett→ Hindsight bias: ‘I knew it all along’ (you didn’t)Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ The overconfidence effect: we’re far surer than we are rightThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Moral licensing: doing good gives you permission to do badSin to Win (research on moral self-licensing) · Monin & Miller→ Reactance: tell people they can’t, and they’ll want toInfluence · Robert Cialdini→ Maslow’s hammer: if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nailThe Psychology of Science · Abraham Maslow→ The just-world hypothesis: the comforting lie that people get what they deserveThe Belief in a Just World · Melvin Lerner→ The Barnum effect: vague descriptions feel personally accurateresearch on personal validation (Forer) · Bertram Forer→

Build the smallest thing that tests your biggest assumptionThe Lean Startup · Eric Ries→ Most results come from a few causes — the 80/20 ruleThe 80/20 Principle · Richard Koch→ Do less, but better — the disciplined pursuit of essentialEssentialism · Greg McKeown→ More choices can make you less happyThe Paradox of Choice · Barry Schwartz→ How choices are arranged shapes what we pickNudge · Thaler & Sunstein→ The real cost of anything is what you give up for itEconomics in One Lesson · Henry Hazlitt→ Money already spent should never decide what you do nextMisbehaving · Richard Thaler→ The planning fallacy: why everything takes longer than you thinkThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Hyperbolic discounting: why the present always winsPredictably Irrational · Dan Ariely→ Decision fatigue: every choice drains the same limited tankWillpower · Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney→ Via negativa: improve by removing, not addingAntifragile · Nassim Nicholas Taleb→ Optionality: keep choices open when the future is uncertainAntifragile · Nassim Nicholas Taleb→ Hofstadter’s law: it always takes longer, even when you know this lawGödel, Escher, Bach · Douglas Hofstadter→

A growth mindset turns failure into feedbackMindset · Carol Dweck→ Grit — passion plus perseverance — often beats talentGrit · Angela Duckworth→ Flow happens when challenge meets skillFlow · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi→ Don’t follow your passion — build rare skills firstSo Good They Can’t Ignore You · Cal Newport→ Real motivation comes from autonomy, mastery, and purposeDrive · Daniel Pink→ In a complex world, generalists often beat specialistsRange · David Epstein→ It’s not 10,000 hours — it’s deliberate practicePeak · Anders Ericsson→ The less you know, the more you think you knowUnskilled and Unaware of It · Dunning & Kruger→ People rise (or fall) to what’s expected of themPygmalion in the Classroom · Robert Rosenthal→ Spread your learning out and it sticks; cram it and it fadesMemory · Hermann Ebbinghaus→ If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it yetRichard Feynman’s method · Richard Feynman→ The curse of knowledge: once you know it, you can’t imagine not knowingMade to Stick · Chip & Dan Heath→ Kaizen: tiny continuous improvements beat big leapsKaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success · Masaaki Imai→ Interleaving: mix your practice instead of blocking itMake It Stick · Peter C. Brown, Henry Roediger & Mark McDaniel→ The OODA loop: out-cycle reality by deciding fasterBoyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War · John Boyd (via Robert Coram)→

Deep focus is becoming rare — and rare is valuableDeep Work · Cal Newport→ The space between stimulus and response is your freedomMan’s Search for Meaning · Viktor Frankl→ The obstacle in your path becomes the pathThe Obstacle Is the Way · Ryan Holiday→ You have power over your mind, not outside eventsMeditations · Marcus Aurelius→ We suffer more in imagination than in realityLetters from a Stoic · Seneca→ Vulnerability is courage, not weaknessDaring Greatly · Brené Brown→ Urgent isn’t the same as importantThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · Stephen R. Covey→ Work expands to fill the time availableParkinson’s Law · C. Northcote Parkinson→ Unfinished tasks keep tugging at your attentionOn Finished and Unfinished Tasks · Bluma Zeigarnik→ We adapt to almost everything — and drift back to baselineStumbling on Happiness · Daniel Gilbert→ The spotlight effect: nobody’s watching you as closely as you thinkThe Spotlight Effect · Thomas Gilovich→ The peak-end rule: we remember the peak and the end, not the averageThinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman→ Amor fati: don’t just accept your fate — love itEcce Homo · Friedrich Nietzsche→ Memento mori: remember you will die — so live nowOn the Shortness of Life · Seneca→ Negative visualization: imagine losing what you haveA Guide to the Good Life · William B. Irvine→

Wealth is what you don’t seeThe Psychology of Money · Morgan Housel→ Humans rule the world because of shared storiesSapiens · Yuval Noah Harari→ Some things gain from disorder — that’s antifragileAntifragile · Nassim Nicholas Taleb→ Rare, unpredictable events shape history mostThe Black Swan · Nassim Nicholas Taleb→ We feel obliged to give back — the rule of reciprocityInfluence · Robert Cialdini→ People don’t buy what you do — they buy why you do itStart With Why · Simon Sinek→ You’re only seeing the survivorsHow Not to Be Wrong · Jordan Ellenberg→ What everyone owns, no one protectsThe Tragedy of the Commons · Garrett Hardin→ People get promoted until they reach the job they can’t doThe Peter Principle · Laurence J. Peter→ The more people who could help, the less likely anyone doesThe Unresponsive Bystander · Darley & Latané→ Goodhart’s law: when a measure becomes a target, it stops measuringThe Tyranny of Metrics · Jerry Z. Muller→ The Lindy effect: the longer something has lasted, the longer it will lastAntifragile · Nassim Nicholas Taleb→ Social proof: we copy what others do, especially when unsureInfluence · Robert Cialdini→ Commitment & consistency: small yeses lock you into big onesInfluence · Robert Cialdini→ Comparative advantage: specialize in what you give up least to doOn the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation · David Ricardo→ The network effect: some things get better the more people use themInformation Rules · Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian→ Creative destruction: the new can’t arrive without burying the oldCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy · Joseph Schumpeter→ The cobra effect: when the fix makes the problem worseThe Cobra Effect · Horst Siebert→ The bandwagon effect: belief spreads because others believe itIrrational Exuberance · Robert Shiller→ Dunbar’s number: you can only really know about 150 peopleHow Many Friends Does One Person Need? · Robin Dunbar→ Brandolini’s law: refuting nonsense costs far more than making itthe Bullshit Asymmetry Principle · Alberto Brandolini→