Books like Solving the Procrastination Puzzle

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The Procrastination Equation

Piers Steel · Psychology

The Procrastination Equation is Piers Steel's attempt to apply a decade of academic research on procrastination to a popular audience.

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Atomic Habits

James Clear · Self-help

Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.

Both dig into behavior change.

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The Willpower Instinct

Kelly McGonigal · Self-help

The Willpower Instinct is based on Kelly McGonigal's popular ten-week science of willpower course at Stanford University's Continuing Studies program.

A kindred psychology read.

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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Nir Eyal · Self-help

Indistractable is Nir Eyal's argument that distraction is not a technology problem — it's a psychology problem.

Both dig into behavior change.

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Eat That Frog!

Brian Tracy · Self-help

Eat That Frog!

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The Now Habit

Neil Fiore · Self-help

The Now Habit is psychologist Neil Fiore's reframe of procrastination as a coping mechanism rather than a character flaw.

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Triggers

Marshall Goldsmith · Business

Triggers is Marshall Goldsmith's examination of why behavioral change is so persistently difficult, even for intelligent, self-aware people who genuinely want to change.

Shares self-regulation and behavior change with Solving the Procrastination Puzzle.

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Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown · Psychology

Atlas of the Heart is Brené Brown's attempt to map eighty-seven distinct human emotions and experiences — not as a clinical taxonomy but as a practical vocabulary for people who want to communicate more precisely about what they feel.

Both dig into emotions.

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke · Psychology

Dopamine Nation is psychiatrist Anna Lembke's account of how modern life has engineered an environment of endless easy pleasure — and what that does to the brain.

Both dig into self-regulation.

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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.

Both dig into behavior change.

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Good Habits, Bad Habits

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.

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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.