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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

Lisa Genova

4.7 on Amazon

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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brené Brown

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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski Ph.D.

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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book

Anonymous

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Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction

Gary Wilson, Noah Church, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive: 10th Anniversary Edition

Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell

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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

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Surrounded by Idiots

Thomas Erikson

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The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Dr. Nathaniel Branden and Macmillan Audio

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13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success

Amy Morin

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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler and Shaun Whiteside

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Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks

Barry McDonagh

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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

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krigathonDec 12, 2018

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology (great!)

Dare to Lead (interesting and Powerful)

Rising Strong (Sensible)

What the most successful people do before breakfast (helpful in thinking about opportunity costs)

Why we sleep (interesting read)

Exponential organisations (Re-read after 2 years, worth it)

Prisoners of Geography (very interesting view of geopolitics, Putin, et al)

Continuous Delivery (great!)

Clean Code (must read for any serious programmer)

Built to last (picked it back after 1-2 years, cool book)

Site Reliability Engineering (didn't quite finish, but good book)

Building Microservices (fantastic book which puts everything I've done in the past year into so much more perspective)

rishikdharonJuly 25, 2019

You have already received couple of strong suggestions, excellent advise there you should try to incorporate.However, both of them are extrinsic rewards focused. When faced with external challenges (things outside of your mind or physiology) changing your outlook, circumstances or expectations in order to adapt to your situation is certainly a good way to handle it. I would only offer one suggestion - if this is an internal struggle by any chance. That would be to find your core empathy for yourself and your colleague, which means be compassionate to yourself and understand why is it bothering you so much. And be compassionate to the other person and try to determine what is driving their behavior. These are both hard things to do. I can't tell you how exactly to do that - but try reading a few books like "Dare to Lead" by Brene Brown or "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey. Good luck!

james_niroonDec 29, 2019

Dare to Lead -Rene Brown

Fooled by randomness- Nassim T

Principle - Ray Dalio

Drive - D Pink

The Laws of Human Nature -R Greene

Influence- Robert Cialdini

21st lessons for 21st century - Y. Harari

Why we sleep -M. Walker

Skin in the Game - Nassim T.
Social Animal - David B.

Einstein - Isaacson

Steve Jobs - Isaacson

Blink - malcolm gladwell

Outlier - malcolm gladwell

The tipping point - malcolm gladwell

Game of Throne series

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