nonfiction + psychology

13 books tagged both “nonfiction” and “psychology”.

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb · 2019

Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

2,234-word summary · 10 min read

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill · 1937

Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

2,458-word summary · 11 min read

Quiet

Susan Cain · 2012

Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet.

2,898-word summary · 13 min read

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson · 1998

A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to return.

2,533-word summary · 11 min read

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg · 2012

Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste to the bus boycott.

2,207-word summary · 10 min read

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.

2,306-word summary · 10 min read

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell · 2008

Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.

1,934-word summary · 9 min read

Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt · 2005

Levitt asks why cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers and crime drops share incentives.

4,055-word summary · 18 min read

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson · 2016

Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories.

2,020-word summary · 9 min read

Atomic Habits

James Clear · 2018

A practical walkthrough of Atomic Habits: why tiny changes compound, how identity shapes behavior, and the four laws Clear uses to build good habits and break…

2,170-word summary · 10 min read