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Books like The 4-Hour Workweek

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is about lifestyle design, entrepreneurship, 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. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    Greg McKeown · Self-help

    Essentialism is Greg McKeown's argument that the way most people approach work and life — saying yes to almost everything — is a slow form of defeat.

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  2. Getting Things Done
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    Getting Things Done

    David Allen · Self-help

    Getting Things Done is David Allen's argument that the main source of stress in modern knowledge work isn't the volume of tasks — it's having commitments that live only in your head.

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  3. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
    Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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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.

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  4. The Lean Startup
    The Lean Startup

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    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · Business

    The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.

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  5. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
    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.

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  6. 12 Rules for Life
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    12 Rules for Life

    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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