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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker, Steve West, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman, Patrick Egan, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

Don Norman

4.6 on Amazon

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

4.8 on Amazon

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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

Nassim Nicholas Nicholas Taleb

4.5 on Amazon

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt and Gildan Media, LLC

4.6 on Amazon

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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne

4.6 on Amazon

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan and Penguin Audio

4.7 on Amazon

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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Norman Doidge

4.7 on Amazon

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell and Hachette Audio

4.4 on Amazon

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Maps of Meaning

Jordan B. Peterson and Random House Audio

4.8 on Amazon

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl , William J. Winslade, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Cassandra Campbell, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

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Humankind: A Hopeful History

Rutger Bregman , Erica Moore, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

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Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.8 on Amazon

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fpolingonMay 19, 2021

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

You may also try Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

But in general there is no such book as there is no universal meaning. One has to find it oneself.

nscalfonJuly 1, 2021

There’s a lot of ways to be great, but part of the issue is how you’re framing it. The goal should never have been for your name to be remembered in 1000 years, it should always have been to leave an impact. That doesn’t mean you are well known or loved, just that you’ve made the world better. That impact can be as big or small as you want, from being a good influence on your kid to mentoring to donating to working on important problems, all the way up to what you think of as great historical figures.

Edit: you should also read Man’s Search for Meaning by Richard Frankel.

lnwlebjelonApr 22, 2021

The books I've chosen over the last year seem to unintentionally have had the common theme of survival under miserable situations. Man's search for meaning, Diary of Anne Frank, Alive!, When breath becomes air, and Blueprint for armageddon podcasts I-VI, are some of them. While providing strategies for living the day to day, they also provide valuable perspective and have made things seem just not so bad after all. Otherwise focus on sleep and exercise have been extremely important for managing what has been the most stressful year of my life.