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Books like The Molecule of More
The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long is about dopamine, desire, motivation. 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.
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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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.
Read the summary → - Why We Sleep
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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.
Read the summary → - The Willpower Instinct
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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.
Read the summary → - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · Science
Behave is Robert Sapolsky's attempt to explain why humans do what they do — the violence, the altruism, the tribalism, the heroism — by working through every layer of biology that contributes to a single act.
Read the summary → - The Brain That Changes Itself
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Norman Doidge · Psychology
Norman Doidge is a Canadian psychiatrist who traveled to interview the scientists and patients at the frontier of neuroplasticity research in the mid-2000s.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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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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