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Recommended Reading List

Welcome to my recommended reading list. My appetite for material on the art and science of creative expertise, behaviour and human performance has become almost obsessional in the last few years. As such, I have compiled a considerable research resource, and I'd like to share some of that with you.

Some of the recommended reading is academic, but I believe if you want to develop deep knowledge on a given topic, then you have no choice but to go to the source and immerse yourself in it. Many other books below are are less heavy.

Regardless, the material you'll find here has been an invaluable resource to me and I think it will be for you too. Get stuck in!

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Creativity
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Writing
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Biographies

Recommended reading: The Fractalist Benoit B Mandelbrot

The Fractalist

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Memoir of a Scientific Maverick tells the life story of one of the greatest names in 20th Century science.

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Recommended reading: Surely you're joking mr. Feynman Richard Feynman

Surely You're Joking…

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton. An account of the life of physicist Richard Feynman.

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Recommended reading: Buckminster Fuller Critical Path

Critical Path

Critical Path is R. Buckminster Fuller's masterwork, a summing up of his lifetime of thought and concern for human existence.

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Work

recommended reading: Studs Terkel Working

Working

People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do. First published in 1973 by Studs Terkel looking at people at work.

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Recommended reading: Work, Happiness & Unhappiness

Work, Happiness & Unhappiness

Award-winning psychologist Professor Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others.

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recommended reading: Psychology at Work

Psychology at Work

This new collection of essays aims to illustrate both the empirical and practical richness of the field as well as its theoretical development.

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Creativity

Front cover image of Flow

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

Flow is the classic work on happiness that examines timeless issues as the challenge of lifelong learning and optimal use of free time and how to make lives meaningful.

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Creativity The Science of Discovery

Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery & Invention

Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews over thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process.

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The Evolving Self book

The Evolving Self

In The Evolving Self, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates how we can understand and overcome our evolutionary shortcomings and build a stable, meaningful future.

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Intelligence


Performance


Writing


Zen


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