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The ones about running on empty — and what actually refills you.
7 shows

Burnout

The Myth of Normal

When the Body Says No

Slow Productivity

Reasons to Stay Alive

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think

How to Do Nothing
Coming to Apple shortly
Why the body keeps score, and how people put themselves back together.
10 shows

The Body Keeps the Score

No Bad Parts

Atlas of the Heart

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Don't Believe Everything You Think

The Courage to Be Disliked

Stop Saying You're Fine

How to Do the Work
Coming to Apple shortly

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

What Happened to You?
Coming to Apple shortly
Saying no, holding the line, and surviving other people.
5 shows
Attention, willpower, dopamine — and the small things that stick.
18 shows

Atomic Habits

The Power of Habit

Deep Work

Stolen Focus

ADHD 2.0

Dopamine Nation

Dopamine Detox

The 5 Second Rule

The High 5 Habit

Grit

Mindset

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Who Moved My Cheese?

Can't Hurt Me

Discipline Is Destiny

Four Thousand Weeks

Happier Hour
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The Motivation Myth
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Breathing, sleeping, ageing, hurting — the physical side of all this.
6 shows

Why We Sleep

Breath

Mind Your Body

Outlive

Everything Is Tuberculosis

The Comfort Crisis
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The people who raised you, and the ones you are raising.
3 shows
Earning it, keeping it, and the feelings underneath both.
6 shows
Stillness, intention, and the stories you tell yourself.
17 shows

The Secret

The Greatest Secret

The Power of Now

A New Earth

The Four Agreements

The Untethered Soul

Becoming Supernatural

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

The Mountain Is You

The Alchemist

Man's Search for Meaning
Coming to Apple shortly

The Creative Act

The Diary of a CEO

The Obstacle Is the Way

Think Like a Monk
Conversations, charm, conflict — the ones about everybody else.
6 shows

How to Talk to Anyone

How to Win Friends and Influence People

The Next Conversation

Surrounded by Idiots

How to Know a Person

The Art of Manliness
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Falling in it, staying in it, and the ache of both.
8 shows
For the walk that needs to last one more chapter.
5 shows
The ones everybody is already shouting about.
8 shows

Fourth Wing

Onyx Storm

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Six of Crows

Alchemised

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Project Hail Mary
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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Literary fiction, read like a story rather than an assignment.
3 shows
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