Books like 10% Happier

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Sam Harris · Religion & Spirituality

Waking Up is Sam Harris' argument that the insights of contemplative traditions — particularly Buddhism's claim that the sense of self is an illusion — can be separated from religious metaphysics and investigated directly through meditation and introspection.

Both dig into meditation.

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Full Catastrophe Living

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

Full Catastrophe Living is Jon Kabat-Zinn's foundational text on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the eight-week clinical program he developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979.

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Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

Wherever You Go, There You Are is Jon Kabat-Zinn's accessible introduction to mindfulness as a way of living rather than a formal therapeutic program.

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Never Finished

David Goggins · Memoir

Never Finished is David Goggins' follow-up to Can't Hurt Me, continuing his story and philosophy of mental toughness beyond the point where the first book left off.

Both dig into self-improvement.

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The Willpower Instinct

Kelly McGonigal · Self-help

The Willpower Instinct is based on Kelly McGonigal's popular ten-week science of willpower course at Stanford University's Continuing Studies program.

Both dig into mindfulness.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · Memoir

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is one of the earliest and most influential self-improvement texts in American literature, written in four separate parts across the last decades of his life.

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Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

Joseph Goldstein · Religion & Spirituality

Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom is Joseph Goldstein's distillation of vipassana — the Theravada Buddhist practice of direct investigation into the nature of mind and experience.

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Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

Mindfulness for Beginners is Jon Kabat-Zinn's entry-level introduction to mindfulness meditation.

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The Miracle of Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality

The Miracle of Mindfulness is Thich Nhat Hanh's introduction to mindfulness practice, originally written in Vietnamese as a letter to a fellow monk.

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Born Standing Up

Steve Martin · Memoir

Born Standing Up is Steve Martin's account of the decade-long grind that preceded his sudden, seemingly overnight fame as America's biggest stand-up comedian of the late 1970s.

Both dig into ambition.

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Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen · Memoir

Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run is among the most substantive rock memoirs written, in part because Springsteen is a better prose writer than his public image suggests and in part because he chose to write about the things that actually shaped him rather than the things that made him famous.

Both dig into ambition.

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Bossypants

Tina Fey · Memoir

Bossypants is Tina Fey's memoir and comic essay collection about her upbringing in suburban Pennsylvania, her years doing improv comedy in Chicago, her time as a writer and head writer at Saturday Night Live, her creation of 30 Rock, and the experience of being a woman in charge in show business.

Both dig into ambition.