Category: Psychology & Wellness
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again
The Attention Crisis You Didn’t See Coming Johann Hari begins Stolen Focus with a confession:he can’t pay attention anymore — and neither can we. “I could still read, but I couldn’t sink into reading.I could still think, but I couldn’t stay with a thought.” What starts as a personal struggle turns into a global investigation.Hari…
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
1. Why People Say Yes Robert Cialdini didn’t just want to understand persuasion —he wanted to know why smart people fall for it. So he spent years working undercover in sales, marketing, fundraising, and advertising industries,observing how influence really works in everyday life.The result was Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,one of the most important behavioral…
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Why This Book Feels Like Therapy in Disguise When Maybe You Should Talk to Someone hit shelves, it surprised readers who expected a typical psychology book.Instead, Lori Gottlieb — a psychotherapist, writer, and patient herself — delivers something deeply human: a behind-the-scenes look at therapy that feels like storytelling, confession, and healing all at once.…
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
Why This Book Hits So Close to Home Scroll. Click. Like. Repeat.In a world where pleasure is one tap away, Dopamine Nation feels less like a science book and more like a mirror. Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, takes readers into her clinic—and into their own habits—to reveal how we’ve all become…
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Why This Book Changed How We Understand Trauma Before The Body Keeps the Score, trauma was often seen as an invisible mental wound—a psychological scar that could be reasoned or “talked” away.Dr. Bessel van der Kolk shattered that illusion. Drawing on decades of research in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry, he revealed something profound: trauma doesn’t…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (by Daniel Kahneman)
Why This Book Redefines How We Think Few books have reshaped our understanding of the human mind like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Written by a Nobel Prize–winning psychologist, this book dismantles the long-standing assumption in classical economics that humans are rational actors. Instead, Kahneman demonstrates that our decisions are driven by biases, heuristics,…
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Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Why This Book Can Change You Carol S. Dweck’s groundbreaking book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success has reshaped how educators, business leaders, parents, and individuals think about achievement and personal growth. First published in 2006 and revised in later editions, Mindset introduced two powerful concepts that have since entered mainstream culture: the Fixed Mindset…
