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Books like The Willpower Instinct

The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal is about willpower, self-control, neuroscience. 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. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
    Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

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    Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

    Roy Baumeister and John Tierney · Psychology

    Willpower is social psychologist Roy Baumeister's synthesis of decades of laboratory research on self-control, translated into practical guidance by science journalist John Tierney.

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  2. Atomic Habits
    Atomic Habits

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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.

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  3. The Power of Habit
    The Power of Habit

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    The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · Psychology

    The Power of Habit is Charles Duhigg's investigation into why habits exist and how they can be changed.

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  4. Full Catastrophe Living
    Full Catastrophe Living

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    Full Catastrophe Living

    Jon Kabat-Zinn · Health

    Full Catastrophe Living is Jon Kabat-Zinn's foundational text on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the eight-week clinical program he developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979.

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  5. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
    Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

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    Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

    BJ Fogg · Self-help

    Tiny Habits is BJ Fogg's distillation of more than two decades of research at Stanford's Behavior Design Lab.

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  6. 12 Rules for Life
    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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