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Books like Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The best books like Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, and Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink is about motivation, autonomy, mastery. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
A kindred psychology read.
Read the summary → - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · Psychology
Carol Dweck's central claim is simple but far-reaching: people hold one of two basic beliefs about their own abilities.
Both dig into motivation.
Read the summary → - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth · Psychology
Duckworth's central claim is that talent is overrated.
Both dig into motivation.
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- Start with Why
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Simon Sinek · Business
Start with Why is Simon Sinek's argument that the most influential leaders and organizations in history didn't succeed because they made better products or ran smarter campaigns.
Shares motivation and purpose with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Read the summary → - Deep Work
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.
A kindred psychology read.
Read the summary → - The Procrastination Equation
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Piers Steel · Psychology
The Procrastination Equation is Piers Steel's attempt to apply a decade of academic research on procrastination to a popular audience.
Shares motivation and behavior change with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Read the summary → - Mini Habits
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Stephen Guise · Self-help
Mini Habits is Stephen Guise's case for starting habits so small they are almost impossible to fail.
Shares motivation and behavior change with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Read the summary → - Switch
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Chip Heath and Dan Heath · Business
Switch is Chip Heath and Dan Heath's framework for understanding and overcoming the central paradox of change: people want things to be different, and yet change is consistently hard.
Shares motivation and behavior change with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Read the summary → - Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
BJ Fogg · Self-help
Tiny Habits is BJ Fogg's distillation of more than two decades of research at Stanford's Behavior Design Lab.
Shares motivation and behavior change with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Read the summary → - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · Psychology
Flow is Csikszentmihalyi's landmark study of optimal experience — those moments when people are so deeply absorbed in an activity that time warps, self-consciousness disappears, and effort feels effortless.
Both dig into mastery.
Read the summary → - Good Habits, Bad Habits
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Wendy Wood · Psychology
Good Habits, Bad Habits is social psychologist Wendy Wood's account of what decades of research actually shows about how habits form and change.
Both dig into behavior change.
Read the summary → - Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Influence, New and Expanded is the 2021 revision of Robert Cialdini's foundational 1984 work on the psychology of persuasion.
Both dig into behavior change.
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Books like Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us: quick answers
What are the best books like Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us?
The best books like Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Deep Work by Cal Newport, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, such as motivation, autonomy, mastery.
What should I read after Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us?
A natural next read after Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. A kindred psychology read. Other strong choices are Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, Start with Why by Simon Sinek.
What books are similar to Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink?
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us centers on motivation, autonomy, mastery. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
