Books like Atlas of the Heart

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Daring Greatly

Brené Brown · Health

Daring Greatly is Brené Brown's argument, drawn from twelve years of qualitative research on shame and vulnerability, that the willingness to show up without guarantees — to be seen, to risk failure, to remain open in the presence of uncertainty — is not weakness but the foundation of courage, connection, and meaningful achievement.

Shares vulnerability and connection with Atlas of the Heart.

02

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown · Business

Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.

Both dig into vulnerability.

03

Emotional Intelligence

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.

Both dig into self-awareness.

04

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg · Self-help

Nonviolent Communication is Marshall Rosenberg's framework for communicating in ways that preserve connection and address needs rather than triggering defensiveness.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)

Brené Brown · Psychology

I Thought It Was Just Me is Brené Brown's first major book, written from her research on shame as a social scientist.

Shares vulnerability and connection with Atlas of the Heart.

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Rising Strong

Brené Brown · Self-help

Rising Strong is the third book in Brené Brown's vulnerability-and-courage sequence, following The Gifts of Imperfection and Daring Greatly.

Shares vulnerability and self-awareness with Atlas of the Heart.

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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy · Psychology

Good Inside is clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy's guide to a parenting philosophy built around one central premise: children are fundamentally good inside, and difficult behaviors are not character flaws or manipulation but signals of unmet needs or underdeveloped skills.

Both dig into connection.

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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

Randolph M. Nesse · Psychology

Randolph Nesse spent forty years as a psychiatrist and evolutionary biologist asking a question most of his colleagues found strange: why did natural selection leave us so vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and other forms of suffering?

Both dig into emotions.

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett · Psychology

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist and psychologist at Northeastern University who has spent thirty years studying emotion, and her conclusion challenges the most widely held view of what emotions are.

Both dig into emotions.

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Immunity to Change

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Psychology

Immunity to Change is Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey's attempt to explain why intelligent, motivated people fail to change behavior they genuinely want to change.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Daniel J. Siegel · Psychology

Mindsight is Daniel Siegel's case that humans have a distinct capacity he calls "mindsight" — the ability to sense and shape one's own mental processes and to perceive the inner lives of others.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

Jonice Webb · Psychology

Jonice Webb's argument is that many people who feel chronically empty, numb, or fundamentally different from others were not abused in childhood but neglected — specifically, emotionally neglected.

Both dig into self-awareness.