A practical guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones. The 1% improvement concept is powerful.

Packed with practical advice about learning. The nine principles of ultralearning are metalearning, focus, directness, drill, retrieval, feedback, retention, intuition, and experimentatio...

An eye-opening read. I had no idea how strongly chronotypes can shape our performance across the day. I love books like this that reveal or expand on things hiding in plain sight.

An interesting account of the author's journey to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It reminds me of Eric R. Kandel's In Search of Memory, another story of the long road to a Nobel Prize. The...

A fascinating book that encourages us to broaden our scope and learn more about ourselves. We discover who we are in practice, not in theory.

It's a mixed bag: some essays are brilliant and others less so. I especially liked Stephen Wolfram's. An interesting read that made my jaw drop a few times.

What an eye-opener. The book argues that the brain is not well designed at all. It is a kludge. It explores why religion appears across human cultures and other provocative ideas. I love ...

The way the brain works is very different from the way artificial neural networks work. Brain function is way more nuanced and complex. I love books like this that touch on a topic that w...

I resonate with the call for more deep work and less shallow work. Nit-picking but can be repetitive.

A short but thought-provoking read on what consciousness may be like in other minds. What makes a mind powerful or conscious is not what it is made of or how big it is, but what it can do...

Short and interesting. It is refreshing to know that wasting time can be useful. One key takeaway is that a prepared, wandering mind is necessary for creativity.

I enjoyed this more than I expected. A lot happened in the development of art, modern medicine, and science in Vienna around 1900, from painters, Freud, and Jung to the scientific ideas t...

Reductionism in art taps into mechanisms in the brain for interpreting reality, in colour, shapes, edges, faces etc. I've gained a deeper appreciation for reductionist art because of this...

I enjoyed reading this, it covers the mechanisms of the brain and how to manage oneself. One of the key takeaways: find what energises you/fills your spiritual well. Do it bit by bit and ...

One interesting insight is that we do not seem to choose actions consciously. Other processes, experience, environment, and circumstance shape what we do, while leaving us with a sense of...

I heard good things about this book and was curious, although I have never really had back pain. Its premise is that TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome) and psychological factors can cause b...

Kaizen means good change. Simple and straightforward approach to improving anything. The steps outlined are deceptively simple and powerful. The book has lots of examples drawn from busin...

A convincing read about the benefits of nature and the outdoors. The message was simple and the book could have been shorter, but I stayed for the stories and humour. Good stuff.