Topic
How people think, choose and make decisions.
Spørretimen Explained
How do you build habits that last? A walk through James Clear's Atomic Habits – the four laws, the 1 % rule, habit stacking, the two-minute rule and why you should never miss twice.
What does it take to succeed enormously? Not what you think, argues Malcolm Gladwell. A walk through the ideas in Outliers – 10,000 hours, birth months, opportunity and cultural legacy – and why the book's most famous rule is misread.
Why has concentrating become so hard? A walk through two books about attention – Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey – and what they say separately and together.
Investor Naval Ravikant's thinking on wealth, leverage and happiness, compiled by Eric Jorgenson. A walk through the ideas – specific knowledge, accountability, the four kinds of leverage – and what is problematic about reading success backwards.
The best-selling book about people ever written, from 1936. A walk through the ideas in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People – why criticism does not work, what genuine interest does, and where the line to manipulation runs.
A former FBI hostage negotiator on why you should never meet in the middle. A walk through the ideas in Chris Voss's Never Split the Difference – tactical empathy, mirroring, calibrated questions – and what holds outside a hostage situation.
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund on how he makes up his mind. A walk through the ideas in Ray Dalio's Principles – written rules, radical transparency, believability weighting – and how well they survive being taken out of Bridgewater.
Why do bad arguments sound so convincing? A walk through the most common fallacies – straw man, ad hominem, false dilemma, slippery slope and the rest – with everyday examples, and with the cases where they are not fallacies at all.
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on the two ways the brain makes decisions, and the systematic errors that follow. A walk through the ideas in Thinking, Fast and Slow – and through which parts of the book have not held up.
Two words that became a bestseller. A walk through the ideas in Mel Robbins's The Let Them Theory – what “let them” and “let me” actually mean, where they come from, and where the limit lies for what you can release.
Why do some people and companies manage to inspire, while others merely inform? A walk through the ideas in Simon Sinek's Start With Why – the golden circle, manipulation versus inspiration – and an honest look at the reasoning behind it.
Why has it become so hard to concentrate on one thing – and why does it pay so well for those who manage it? A walk through the ideas in Cal Newport's Deep Work: deep versus shallow, the four rhythms, and what is disputed.
Why is it always the thing nobody saw coming that changes everything? A walk through the ideas in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan – Mediocristan and Extremistan, the turkey problem, the narrative fallacy – and what to actually do about it.
A book that sells on its title and is really about values. A walk through the ideas in Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – choosing what to care about, responsibility versus fault, and how much of this is stoicism in new language.
Social psychologist Robert Cialdini on the few mechanisms that make people say yes. A walk through the ideas in Influence – reciprocity, commitment, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity – and how to notice when they are being used on you.
Resources
One of the world's best-selling books about habits. The core idea: small, almost imperceptible changes produce large results over time – if you build the systems right.
Johann Hari's book on why concentrating has become so hard – and why he believes the causes lie in our surroundings rather than in our willpower.
Chris Bailey's practical book on how attention works – how you drop into hyperfocus on a single task, and why letting the mind wander matters just as much.
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