Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"If you understand these four fundamental steps—and this is what took me five years writing this book, namely because I kept getting distracted; I was very distracted with myself, and I wrote the book for me as I mentioned earlier—it was when I boiled down the hundreds of studies and research, and you can see there's thirty-five pages of citations in the book."
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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

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"Yeah, so every copy of the book comes with -- oh, did you tear it out already?"
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Mindset

by Carol Dweck

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"Carol Dweck, you might know her from her book 'Mindset,' decided to replicate these ego depletion studies."
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Hooked

by Nir Eyal

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"In my line of work, you know, I'm fairly controversial because I wrote 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products' and then I wrote 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.'"
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Indistractable

by Nir Eyal

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"In my line of work, you know, I'm fairly controversial because I wrote 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products' and then I wrote 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.'"
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How to Change Your Mind

by Michael Pollan

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"This is why we see books like 'How to Change Your Mind' by Michael Pollan, where the interesting aspect is that psychedelics help with treatments for depression and anxiety."
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The Mindbody Prescription

by John E. Sarno

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"I don’t know if you’ve read 'The Mind-Body Prescription.'"