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  1. 01The team nobody would sell a bike to
  2. 02The clerk who cut a customer's credit card in half
  3. 03A goose, a volleyball, and what you actually want
  4. 04Why a hundred bad photographs beat one perfect one
  5. 05Bored, and doing the lift anyway
01 · James ClearAtomic HabitsTiny changes, repeated, decide who you become.
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  1. Cover of Atomic Habits by James Clear, published by Avery, Penguin Random House

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    Atomic Habits

    James Clear

    Tiny changes, repeated, decide who you become.

    1. 01The team nobody would sell a bike to
    2. 02The clerk who cut a customer's credit card in half
    3. 03A goose, a volleyball, and what you actually want
    4. 04Why a hundred bad photographs beat one perfect one
    5. 05Bored, and doing the lift anyway
  2. Cover of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson, published by Magrathea Publishing

    02

    The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    Eric Jorgenson

    Wealth comes from ownership and leverage, not from selling hours.

    1. 01The hour you cannot sell twice
    2. 02Ten points of judgment, one hundred million dollars
    3. 03A contract to be unhappy until it arrives
    4. 04Willpower is badly outnumbered
    5. 05Three answers that refuse to agree
  3. Cover of Deep Work by Cal Newport, published by Grand Central Publishing, Hachette

    03

    Deep Work

    Cal Newport

    Undistracted concentration is rare, valuable, and can be deliberately designed.

    1. 01Your office is built to break the thing it pays for
    2. 02What a blacksmith knows about your job
    3. 03Four good hours, and how to protect them
    4. 04Your attention is being trained right now, in a queue
    5. 05The farmer who sold his hay baler
  4. Cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    A fast mind supplies confident answers a slow mind rarely checks.

    1. 01The answer that arrives before you ask
    2. 02Right about everything except the cause
    3. 03Same money, opposite choices
    4. 04The self that keeps the diary did not live the day
    5. 05Stop trying harder and change the room
  5. Cover of Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, published by Penguin Life, Penguin Random House

    05

    Ikigai

    Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

    A renewable daily reason to get up, not a grand destiny.

    1. 01The man who retired for one day
    2. 02The world's oldest people cannot agree on anything
    3. 03A town that keeps its friendships in a binder
    4. 04The donkey that tightened its own rope
    5. 05One hundred and fifty cups, twelve kept

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