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Books like So Good They Can't Ignore You
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport is about career development, deliberate practice, mastery. 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.
- 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.
Read the summary → - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool · Science
Peak is Anders Ericsson's definitive account of deliberate practice — the specific type of focused, feedback-driven training that, more than any other factor, determines how expert people become in demanding fields.
Read the summary → - Mastery
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Robert Greene · Self-help
Mastery is Robert Greene's long account of how extraordinary human mastery develops — from childhood inclinations through apprenticeship through creative independence to the integration that characterizes true mastery.
Read the summary → - Ultralearning
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Scott Young · Self-help
Ultralearning is Scott Young's synthesis of principles drawn from his own extreme learning projects — completing MIT's four-year computer science curriculum in one year, learning four languages in a year, and other aggressive self-directed learning experiments — and from the academic research on skill acquisition and deliberate practice.
Read the summary → - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · Psychology
Drive is Daniel Pink's argument that the motivational model most organizations still run on — reward the behavior you want, punish the behavior you don't — is badly mismatched to the kind of work that matters most in a modern economy.
Read the summary → - 12 Rules for Life
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Jordan Peterson · Self-help
12 Rules for Life is Jordan Peterson's attempt to distill what clinical psychology, comparative mythology, the Bible, and evolutionary biology say about how to live.
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