Self-help · Similar reads
Books like The Practicing Mind
The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner is about practice, process orientation, patience. 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 → - Atomic Habits
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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.
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 → - 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.
Read the summary → - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · Psychology
Carol Dweck's central claim is simple but far-reaching: people hold one of two basic beliefs about their own abilities.
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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