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Books like Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson is about meditation, neuroscience, contemplative practice. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
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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.
Read the summary → - Why Buddhism Is True
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Robert Wright · Religion & Spirituality
Why Buddhism Is True is Robert Wright's argument that modern evolutionary psychology and neuroscience provide independent confirmation for core Buddhist claims about the mind, suffering, and the nature of the self.
Read the summary → - The Miracle of Mindfulness
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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.
Read the summary → - The Mindful Way Through Depression
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The Mindful Way Through Depression
Mark Williams · Health
The Mindful Way Through Depression is a clinical self-help book by four researchers — Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn — who developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a treatment program with strong evidence for reducing depression relapse.
Read the summary → - Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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