Latest thinking
The cost of decision fatigue (Royal Society Open Science article) The cost of decision fatigue (The Economist article) Overconfident? Six simple debiasing techniques you'll definitely have already mastered… Why you want a midlife crisis Can human brains be hacked by a machine? Harnessing psychology and analytics to counter bias and reduce risk Bad apples vs. good apples in bad barrels: What makes people behave badly? A computational theory of painBook recommendations
Understanding the psychology of decision-making
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Anthony Damasio)
- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (Timothy D. Wilson)
- Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (Roy F. Baumeister)
- Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein)
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (John Coates)
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Philip Zimbardo)
- The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Kevin Dutton)
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Personal growth
- The Road Less Traveled (Scott M. Peck)
- Mindsight: Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness (Daniel Siegel)
- I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Terrence Real)
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Angela Duckworth)
- Far from the tree (Andrew Solomon)
- The silent language (Edward T. Hall)
- How can I get through to you? (Terrence Real)
- The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness (Steve Peters)
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson)
- Yoga Nidra (spoken meditation by Rachel Hanrahan) – this is not a book but a sound track available on Amazon and Google Music and my personal favorite amongst a large number of recorded guided yoga nidra meditations
