Ch. 02Reading list
Books that train the loop.
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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink
01DisciplineDiscipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink
Within these pages discover the keys to becoming stronger, smarter, faster, and healthier. There is only one way to achieve true freedom: The Way of Discipline.
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Self-Discipline: Unbreakable Grit
Dominic Mann
01DisciplineSelf-Discipline: Unbreakable Grit
Dominic Mann
How to develop jaw-dropping grit, unrelenting willpower, and mental toughness — even if you currently feel lazy and undisciplined.
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No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracy
01DisciplineNo Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracy
You don’t need a lucky star, wealth, or special connections. What you do need to succeed in any of your life goals is self-discipline.
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The Science of Self-Discipline
Peter Hollins
01DisciplineThe Science of Self-Discipline
Peter Hollins
A roadmap to the human psyche: willpower, mental toughness, and the self-control to resist temptation and achieve your goals.
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Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
02ActionPrinciples: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
The unconventional principles Dalio developed over forty years to create unique results in life and business — and which any person can adopt.
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The Art of Taking Action
Gregg Krech
02ActionThe Art of Taking Action
Gregg Krech
Lessons from Japanese psychology, Zen, and the martial arts on doing what is important in the time you have — even when you don’t feel like it.
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
03MotivationDrive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
Four decades of research on human motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose — and how to put them into action.
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Loserthink
Scott Adams
03MotivationLoserthink
Scott Adams
How to spot untrained thinking, get ego out of decisions, and answer hollow arguments without becoming them.
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Reframe Your Brain
Scott Adams
03MotivationReframe Your Brain
Scott Adams
A user interface for happiness and success: more than 160 counterintuitive reframes. Change the picture in your head, then go do the work.
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Unfu*k Yourself
Gary John Bishop
03MotivationUnfu*k Yourself
Gary John Bishop
A blunt handbook for getting out of your head and into your life. It isn’t other people standing in your way.
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The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
Greg Gutfeld
03MotivationThe Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
Greg Gutfeld
A cynic’s approach to better behavior: keep the pluses, cut the minuses, skip the incense.
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Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
01DisciplineExtreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
If it went wrong, it is yours. Two SEAL task-unit leaders on the only standard that scales from a raid to a Tuesday morning.
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Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
01DisciplineCan't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Callous the mind. A memoir of taking the body and the excuse-maker past the point they both wanted to stop.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
01DisciplineMeditations
Marcus Aurelius
Notes an emperor wrote to himself, not a crowd. Gregory Hays’s translation is the one to keep on the desk.
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
02ActionThe Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
What stands in the way becomes the way. Perception, action, will — in that order — drawn from the Stoics and the people who used them.
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
02ActionThe War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Resistance is the enemy. Name it, sit down, and do the work anyway. The shortest honest book on starting.
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
02ActionAtomic Habits
James Clear
Identity follows repetition. Shrink the move until you cannot miss it, then do it again tomorrow.
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Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
03MotivationLetters from a Stoic
Seneca
Counsel to a friend, not a slogan. How to want less, act more, and keep a mind that is hard to knock over.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
03MotivationMan's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The last freedom is the one nobody can take: choosing the next response. Motive after the worst has already happened.
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