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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
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Principles
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Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
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The Innovator's Dilemma
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High Output Management
Andrew Grove
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The War of Art
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How To Win Friends and Influence People
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
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Mindset
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Shoe Dog
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
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The Black Swan
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Atomic Habits
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
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Lao Tzu
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Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
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The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
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Essentialism
Greg McKeown
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Range
David Epstein
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The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
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The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
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12 Rules for Life
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Skin in the Game
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Deep Work
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
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Einstein
Walter Isaacson
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
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Homo Deus
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Loonshots
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Made to Stick
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Predictably Irrational
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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Measure What Matters
John Doerr
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
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Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore
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The Ride of a Lifetime
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Walter Isaacson
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The Beginning of Infinity
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Sex at Dawn
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The Power of Myth
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
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A Guide to the Good Life
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Ernest Becker
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The Odyssey
Homer
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Born Standing Up
Steve Martin
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Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
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Endurance
Alfred Lansing
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