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Books for focus
762 entries pulled from 62 stacks. Items are ordered by how many tracked people are on record about them, including discussion, use and recommendations.
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44 entries
Reset- Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.01
Deep Work
The case that uninterrupted concentration is a rare and valuable skill
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.02
Business Adventures
John Brooks's twelve New Yorker stories about Wall Street and 1960s corporate America
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.03
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy for using much less technology, on purpose
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.04
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 study of total absorption and what makes it happen
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.05
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt on what smartphones and social media did to childhood after 2010
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Penguin Press
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2023 book on vision, work, failure and giving back
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Building a Second Brain
The case for one external note store, and four steps for running it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The book that took brain imaging arguments about mental health to a general audience
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Find Your WHY
The workbook companion to Start with WHY, written with David Mead and Peter Docker
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Heavily Meditated
Dave Asprey on shortcuts to deep meditative states with breath, feedback and pain
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Read a Book
Adler and Van Doren's manual on the four levels of reading
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens on the slip-box method behind Niklas Luhmann's output
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Memory Rescue
Eleven risk factors for memory loss, organized under the BRIGHT MINDS mnemonic
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer's year training for the US Memory Championship, and what memory really is
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger's speeches and essays on mental models, misjudgment and how to think
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Psych
Judd Biasiotto on the mental training behind record-setting powerlifting
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Same as Ever
Twenty three short stories about the parts of human behavior that never change
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon's ten chapters on sharing the process rather than the product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Source Code
Bill Gates's 2025 memoir of childhood, Lakeside, Harvard and the start of Microsoft
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Start with WHY
Simon Sinek's first book, on leading with purpose before product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon's ten-chapter manifesto on borrowing your way to your own work
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Stillness Is the Key
The third of Ryan Holiday's Stoic books, on the mind, spirit and body at rest
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins's first book, on the countdown that gets you moving
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch on good explanations, and why the growth of knowledge has no ceiling
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll on the paper notebook system and what it is really for
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Bulletproof Diet
Dave Asprey's high-fat, low-toxin eating plan, and the origin of the butter coffee
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Essentialism Planner
A 90 day paper planner built around one priority a day
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Depression: A Diary
A lawyer's day-by-day record of the 1930s, written with no idea it was economics
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Mental Models
Four illustrated volumes of thinking tools taken from several disciplines at once
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe's plain-language introduction to a ten-minute daily practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Inner Game of Tennis
Timothy Gallwey's 1974 classic on quieting self-criticism to perform under pressure
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan on the one priority that makes everything else easier
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Practice
Short numbered sections on treating creative work as a daily practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
The Productivity Field Guide
MacSparky
Video course and book that builds a personal system from your roles, not your tasks
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley's case that trade and specialization, not intelligence, drove human progress
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Tao of Charlie Munger
Munger's lines on investing, business and living, gathered into one place
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's short book on resistance and turning pro
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Think Again
Rethinking and unlearning as skills worth practicing on purpose
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
This Is Strategy
Strategy as a long commitment to a change, not as a set of tactics
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
This Is Water
The Kenyon commencement speech by the author of Infinite Jest, about a 15-minute read
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it
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