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A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on ...
Peter Attia
Feb 11, 2020
Altered Traits
Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cu...
Peter Attia
Dec 20, 2018
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence Real that depression is a silent epidemic in men; that men hide their condition from family, friends, and themselves to avoid the stigma of depression's "un-manliness." Problems that we think of as typically male; difficulty with intimacy, workaholism,...
Peter Attia
Dec 20, 2018'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually.In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured.In the process, he considers talent at work in venues as diverse as a music ...
Peter Attia
Jul 10, 2015100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
Peter Attia
Mar 21, 2015
Mistakes Were Made
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and El...
Peter Attia
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How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable BookThe #1 New York Times bestseller.A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiencesWhen Michael Pollan set out to research how LS...

10% Happier
How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story
After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought w...
Peter Attia
Mo Gawdat is the Vice President of Business Innovation at Google’s [X]. Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an equation based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy.In 2001, Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker and leading technolo...
"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren BuffettHoward Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world's leading value investors, ...
Peter Attia
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Warren BuffettA thought-provoking essay that teaches us that confidence is not innate, but a skill that can be learnt.We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that ...
Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide by James Fadiman
Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
One Bullet Away by Nathaniel C. Fick
Forgive and Remember by Charles L. L. Bosk
King of Hearts by G. Wayne Miller
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis
King of the World by David Remnick
An Atlas of Atherosclerosis Progression and Regression by Herbert C. Stary
The Corner by David Simon
The Transformed Cell by Stephen A. Rosenberg
The Puzzle People by Thomas Starzl
The Rommel Papers by B. H. Liddell-Hart
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach