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Books like Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is about rest, creativity, productivity. 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.

  1. Deep Work
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    Deep Work

    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.

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  2. Why We Sleep
    Why We Sleep

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    Why We Sleep

    Matthew Walker · Science

    Why We Sleep is Matthew Walker's attempt to do for sleep what no amount of public health messaging has managed: make people genuinely afraid of what they're losing.

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  3. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
    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.

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  4. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

    Oliver Burkeman · Self-help

    Four Thousand Weeks is Oliver Burkeman's philosophical attack on the entire project of time management as it is usually practiced.

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  5. A Brief History of Time
    A Brief History of Time

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    A Brief History of Time

    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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  6. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
    A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

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    A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg · Science

    A Crack in Creation is Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's account of how CRISPR-Cas9 works, what it can do, and why its possibilities should give everyone pause.

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