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The Psychology of MoneyMorgan Housel
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The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel · 2020

Doing well with money is more about behaviour than intelligence.

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128 books

Atomic Habits

James Clear 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel 2 min read · 3 min listen

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki 2 min read · 3 min listen

Ikigai

Héctor García & Francesc Miralles 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho 2 min read · 3 min listen

Deep Work

Cal Newport 2 min read · 3 min listen

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari 2 min read · 2 min listen

Muna Madan

Laxmi Prasad Devkota 2 min read · 2 min listen

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg 3 min read · 4 min listen

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck 3 min read · 4 min listen

Grit

Angela Duckworth 3 min read · 4 min listen

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie 3 min read · 4 min listen

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Compound Effect

Darren Hardy 3 min read · 4 min listen

Can’t Hurt Me

David Goggins 3 min read · 4 min listen

The 5 AM Club

Robin Sharma 2 min read · 3 min listen

Make Your Bed

William H. McRaven 3 min read · 3 min listen

The Miracle Morning

Hal Elrod 2 min read · 3 min listen

Tiny Habits

BJ Fogg 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale 2 min read · 3 min listen

Daring Greatly

Brené Brown 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz 2 min read · 3 min listen

Eat That Frog!

Brian Tracy 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz 2 min read · 3 min listen

Awaken the Giant Within

Tony Robbins 3 min read · 3 min listen

The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson 2 min read · 3 min listen

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko 2 min read · 3 min listen

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Total Money Makeover

Dave Ramsey 3 min read · 3 min listen

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

John C. Bogle 2 min read · 3 min listen

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton G. Malkiel 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Simple Path to Wealth

JL Collins 2 min read · 3 min listen

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Automatic Millionaire

David Bach 2 min read · 3 min listen

Money: Master the Game

Tony Robbins 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Barefoot Investor

Scott Pape 2 min read · 3 min listen

Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant

Robert T. Kiyosaki 2 min read · 3 min listen

One Up On Wall Street

Peter Lynch 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Millionaire Fastlane

MJ DeMarco 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Essays of Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett, ed. Lawrence A. Cunningham 2 min read · 3 min listen

Broke Millennial

Erin Lowry 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

Joel Greenblatt 2 min read · 3 min listen

The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss 2 min read · 3 min listen

Essentialism

Greg McKeown 2 min read · 3 min listen

Getting Things Done

David Allen 2 min read · 3 min listen

The ONE Thing

Gary Keller & Jay Papasan 2 min read · 3 min listen

Indistractable

Nir Eyal 2 min read · 3 min listen

Make Time

Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries 2 min read · 3 min listen

Zero to One

Peter Thiel with Blake Masters 2 min read · 3 min listen

Start with Why

Simon Sinek 2 min read · 3 min listen

Good to Great

Jim Collins 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker 2 min read · 3 min listen

Drive

Daniel H. Pink 2 min read · 3 min listen

Rework

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson 2 min read · 3 min listen

Hyperfocus

Chris Bailey 2 min read · 3 min listen

Range

David Epstein 2 min read · 3 min listen

Peak

Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool 2 min read · 3 min listen

So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Cal Newport 2 min read · 3 min listen

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport 2 min read · 3 min listen

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield 2 min read · 3 min listen

Principles

Ray Dalio 2 min read · 3 min listen

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman 3 min read · 4 min listen

Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl 3 min read · 4 min listen

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle 3 min read · 4 min listen

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman 2 min read · 3 min listen

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius 3 min read · 3 min listen

Quiet

Susan Cain 3 min read · 3 min listen

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga 3 min read · 3 min listen

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker 3 min read · 3 min listen

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini 3 min read · 3 min listen

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt 3 min read · 3 min listen

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Art of Happiness

Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday 2 min read · 3 min listen

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday 2 min read · 3 min listen

Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday 2 min read · 3 min listen

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk 2 min read · 3 min listen

Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely 3 min read · 3 min listen

The Untethered Soul

Michael A. Singer 2 min read · 3 min listen

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom 2 min read · 3 min listen

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond 2 min read · 3 min listen

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari 2 min read · 3 min listen

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari 2 min read · 3 min listen

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan 2 min read · 3 min listen

SPQR

Mary Beard 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman 2 min read · 3 min listen

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough 2 min read · 3 min listen

1776

David McCullough 2 min read · 3 min listen

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

M. K. Gandhi 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru 2 min read · 3 min listen

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer 2 min read · 3 min listen

Annapurna

Maurice Herzog 2 min read · 3 min listen

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson 2 min read · 3 min listen

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand 2 min read · 3 min listen

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Art of War

Sun Tzu 2 min read · 3 min listen

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee 2 min read · 3 min listen

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell 2 min read · 3 min listen

Animal Farm

George Orwell 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 2 min read · 3 min listen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald 2 min read · 3 min listen

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

J. K. Rowling 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway 2 min read · 3 min listen

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse 2 min read · 3 min listen

Life of Pi

Yann Martel 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown 2 min read · 3 min listen

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck 2 min read · 3 min listen

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini 2 min read · 3 min listen

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak 2 min read · 3 min listen

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes 2 min read · 3 min listen

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo 2 min read · 3 min listen

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë 2 min read · 3 min listen

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe 2 min read · 3 min listen

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