Barbara Oakley Learning How to Learn Book Recommendations
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
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S.C. Gwynne
4.28 avg rating β 8,559 ratings 
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by:
Cal Newport
4.16 avg rating β 180,867 ratings 5. 
Cervantes and Modernity: Four Essays on Don Quijote
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E.C. Graf
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
by:
Chris Voss
4.35 avg rating β 197,953 ratings 10. 
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating β 434,862 ratings 10. 
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
by:
Erin Meyer
4.33 avg rating β 27,911 ratings 12. 
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
by:
Barbara Oakley
4.20 avg rating β 21,350 ratings 
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by:
Michio Kaku
4.08 avg rating β 15,336 ratings 15. 
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by:
Peter C. Brown
4.16 avg rating β 21,591 ratings 18. 
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
by:
Benedict Carey
3.91 avg rating β 7,318 ratings 
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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Cormac McCarthy
4.05 avg rating β 140,284 ratings 21. 
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by:
Cal Newport
4.07 avg rating β 48,918 ratings 23. 
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance β What Women Should Know
by:
Katty Kay
3.72 avg rating β 16,258 ratings 24. 
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by:
Adam M. Grant
4.07 avg rating β 38,962 ratings 25. 
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
by:
Sheryl Sandberg
3.85 avg rating β 56,322 ratings 26. 
The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
by:
Piers Steel
3.72 avg rating β 3,411 ratings 
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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
by:
Benny Lewis
3.66 avg rating β 5,705 ratings 29. 
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
by:
Gabriel Wyner
4.08 avg rating β 12,319 ratings 30. 
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by:
Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating β 2,330 ratings 31. 
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by:
Carol Tavris
4.04 avg rating β 28,665 ratings 32. 
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating β 81,005 ratings 35. 
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
by:
David Salsburg
3.92 avg rating β 1,975 ratings 36. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,821 ratings 37. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,882 ratings 38. 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,037 ratings 
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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism 3.92 avg rating β 20,092 ratings
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
3.90 avg rating β 35,344 ratings 45. 
Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
by:
John G. Seamon
3.78 avg rating β 23 ratings 46. 
Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work
by:
Kat Arney
3.96 avg rating β 492 ratings 
48. 
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by:
John J. Ratey
4.13 avg rating β 17,029 ratings 49. 
The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning
by:
James E. Zull
4.06 avg rating β 526 ratings 50. 
Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable 3.68 avg rating β 38 ratings
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World
by:
Yong Zhao
3.94 avg rating β 198 ratings 
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
by:
Gretchen Rubin
3.78 avg rating β 1,156 ratings 
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
by:
Scott Adams
4.06 avg rating β 20,254 ratings 60. 
Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time
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Rory Vaden
3.93 avg rating β 1,421 ratings 61. 
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind 3.92 avg rating β 1,613 ratings
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Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
by:
Leonard Shlain
4.15 avg rating β 1,582 ratings 64. 
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by:
Leonard Shlain
4.16 avg rating β 2,436 ratings 65. 
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by:
Iain McGilchrist
4.35 avg rating β 3,767 ratings 
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
by:
Angela Duckworth
4.08 avg rating β 137,581 ratings 
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Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life 3.99 avg rating β 368 ratings
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
by:
Josh Waitzkin
4.04 avg rating β 20,491 ratings 72. 
Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
by:
Fred Waitzkin
3.96 avg rating β 1,585 ratings 73. 
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
by:
Luke Dittrich
3.85 avg rating β 5,702 ratings 74. 
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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Giulia Enders
4.08 avg rating β 53,719 ratings 75. 
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle 3.97 avg rating β 5,898 ratings
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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
by:
Barbara Oakley
3.88 avg rating β 1,731 ratings 79. 
Playing With Fire: Embracing risk and danger in schools
by:
Mike Fairclough
4.25 avg rating β 12 ratings 80. 
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives 3.90 avg rating β 905 ratings
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
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Tim Harford
3.91 avg rating β 3,963 ratings 
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by:
Steven Johnson
3.99 avg rating β 15,387 ratings 85. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,255 ratings 86. 
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
4.11 avg rating β 15,320 ratings 
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by:
Mark Manson
3.87 avg rating β 1,335,372 ratings 
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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by:
Timothy Ferriss
4.10 avg rating β 44,096 ratings 91. 
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
by:
Timothy Ferriss
3.94 avg rating β 11,028 ratings 
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by:
Daniel H. Pink
3.95 avg rating β 123,662 ratings 94. 
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
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Peter Turchin
4.17 avg rating β 871 ratings 95. 
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Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
by:
Ian Leslie
4.03 avg rating β 2,982 ratings 
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating β 549,115 ratings 99. 
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by:
Joshua Foer
3.88 avg rating β 93,074 ratings 100. 
Juku: The Stealth Force of Education and the Deterioration of Schools in Japan
by:
Manabu Watanabe
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating