My Bookshelf

 




Dan Ariely

Katherine Bebo

Marshall Goldsmith

Malcolm Gladwell

Rolf Dobelli

Daniel Goleman

Gabor Maté

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ryan Holiday

M. Scott Peck

Daniel Kahneman

Viktor E. Frankl

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PhD

Mark Manson

Cal Newport

Robert Greene
















































 

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