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. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  2. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  3. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
  4. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
  5. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  6. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
  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. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  10. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
  11. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  12. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  13. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
  14. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
  15. The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
  16. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
  17. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different by Chantel Prat
  18. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
  19. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  20. Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
  21. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  22. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  23. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  24. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
  25. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  26. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
  27. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  28. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
  29. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
  30. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
  31. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  32. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  33. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
  34. If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
  35. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
  36. Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
  37. The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
  38. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  39. Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life by Thomas Jordan
  40. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  41. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  42. Five Questions to Finding Peace of Mind and Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia
  43. The Age of Paradox by Charles Handy
  44. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  45. The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith
  46. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
  47. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
  48. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius