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Essential Reading · 20 Books
Top Psychology Books
The foundational texts behind the concepts in this guide, along with their most powerful insights and quotes.
Essential
01
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By Robert Cialdini
Top 5 Quotes
“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason.”
“People seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.”
“We view a behavior as more correct in a given situation to the degree that we see others performing it.”
“Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Essential
02
Thinking, Fast and Slow
By Daniel Kahneman
Top 5 Quotes
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.”
“Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.”
“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”
Essential
03
Predictably Irrational
By Dan Ariely
Top 5 Quotes
“We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires—with how we want to view ourselves—than with reality.”
“Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others).”
“Trust, once eroded, is very hard to restore.”
“We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes.”
“Zero is not just another price, it turns out. Zero is an emotional hot button—a source of irrational excitement.”
Essential
04
The 48 Laws of Power
By Robert Greene
Top 5 Quotes
“Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.”
“Never outshine the master.”
“Conceal your intentions. Keep people off-balance and in the dark.”
“Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit.”
“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity.”
Essential
05
Quiet: The Power of Introverts
By Susan Cain
Top 5 Quotes
“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk.”
“Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.”
“Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe.”
Essential
06
Man's Search for Meaning
By Viktor E. Frankl
Top 5 Quotes
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
Essential
07
Atomic Habits
By James Clear
Top 5 Quotes
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”
“If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.”
“The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become.”
Essential
08
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
By Angela Duckworth
Top 5 Quotes
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”
“Talent counts once, effort counts twice.”
“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential.”
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
Essential
09
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
By Carol S. Dweck
Top 5 Quotes
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening.”
“Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.”
“Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something.”
Essential
10
Emotional Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman
Top 5 Quotes
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.”
“People's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues.”
“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.”
“Emotional competence is the single most important personal quality that each of us must develop and access.”
Essential
11
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By Daniel H. Pink
Top 5 Quotes
“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another.”
“The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive.”
“Routine, not-so-interesting jobs require direction; nonroutine, more interesting work depends on self-direction.”
“We are designed to be active and engaged, not passive and compliant.”
Essential
12
The Power of Habit
By Charles Duhigg
Top 5 Quotes
“Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”
“Champions don't do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react.”
“Willpower isn't just a skill. It's a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder.”
“Small wins are exactly what they sound like, and are part of how keystone habits create widespread changes.”
“To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.”
Essential
13
Never Split the Difference
By Chris Voss
Top 5 Quotes
“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”
“Empathy is not about being nice or agreeing with the other side. It's about understanding them.”
“The beauty of empathy is that it doesn't demand that you agree with the other person's ideas.”
“Mirrors work magic. Repeat the last three words (or the critical one to three words) of what someone has just said.”
“No is the start of the negotiation, not the end of it.”
Essential
14
The Body Keeps the Score
By Bessel van der Kolk
Top 5 Quotes
“Trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.”
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.”
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health.”
“The brain-disease model takes control over people's fate out of their own hands and puts doctors and insurance companies in charge of fixing their problems.”
“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience.”
Essential
15
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Top 5 Quotes
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”
“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
“The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”
“People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives.”
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
Essential
16
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By Malcolm Gladwell
Top 5 Quotes
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.”
“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
“Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room.”
Essential
17
Thinking in Systems
By Donella H. Meadows
Top 5 Quotes
“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model.”
“A system is more than the sum of its parts.”
“You can't navigate well in an interconnected, feedback-dominated world unless you take your eyes off short-term events and look for long-term behavior and structure.”
“Paradigms are the sources of systems.”
“Let's go. It's time to stop complaining and start changing.”
Essential
18
The Righteous Mind
By Jonathan Haidt
Top 5 Quotes
“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle.”
“We are deeply intuitive creatures whose gut feelings drive our strategic reasoning.”
“If you want to change someone's mind, you must first connect with them on an emotional level.”
“Human nature is not just intrinsically moral, it's also intrinsically moralistic, critical, and judgmental.”
“We are multiple from the start. Our minds are a collection of modules.”
Essential
19
Stumbling on Happiness
By Daniel Gilbert
Top 5 Quotes
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”
“The things we do when we are young and foolish are often the things that we look back on with the greatest fondness.”
“We are the only animals that can look forward in time, and yet we are terrible at predicting what will make us happy.”
“Impact bias is the tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events.”
“Our memory is not a video recording, but a reconstruction of the past.”
Essential
20
Daring Greatly
By Brené Brown
Top 5 Quotes
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.”
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”