Brad Stulberg Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Master of Change is out now—order your copy today: https://t.co/DysU8B3OuN ▪Sustainable excellence and mental health ▪Author 📚 and adjunct faculty UMich 〽️

Hardiness: Turning Stressful Circumstances Into Resilient Growth
Salvatore R. Maddi
The lead researchers on this topic are Suzanne Kobasa and Salvatore Maddi. They write that hardiness is integral to finding “the existential courage that facilitates an ongoing search for meaning in life.” Yeesh! Who doesn't want more of that?!
Paperback, 2012
$89.99$64.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Kieran Setiya
One of my favorite books this year: LIFE IS HARD, by @KieranSetiya. It was wonderful to have Kieran on The Growth Equation Podcast to discuss how philosophy can help us live better, more excellent lives. Apple podcasts: https://t.co/ZbxrOrVok7 Spotify: https://t.co/1RWCbPoRJH https://t.co/yIaTUj3nXY
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit
@deekapila Check out Rebecca Solnit Hope in The Dark. Just the first 30 pages even. So good. So concise.
Hardcover, 2019
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
@Danny_Pichardo Probably Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Looks like Amazon is running a promotion where you can get these three books—Atomic Habits by @JamesClear, Courage is Calling by @RyanHoliday, and The Practice of Groundedness—for the price of two. Some other great titles included too. Happy reading. https://amzn.to/3ztROOn https://t.co/dbB0SeeMkR
Hardcover, 2018
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris
@jfeudh @paulg I don't listen to many podcasts regularly, to be honest. The ones I do: The Ezra Klein Show @ezraklein Plain English @DKThomp Waking Up Sam Harris The Rich Roll Podcast @richroll Sam's is actually advertisement free. Others do ad-reads, but the hosts aren't marketers.
Paperback, 2015
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Robert M. Pirsig
Some good books I've read lately: -Feeling and Knowing by Antonio Damasio -The Candy House by Jennifer Egan -On Quality by Robert Pirsig -A Significant Life by Todd May -Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz -Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fancy: Tacos
Intellectual Properties
There are all sorts of bright and shiny objects that sound fancy and complex. But nearly all of this stuff just doesn't work. What does work tends to be simple—but simple does not mean easy. Yet if you commit to the above principles and practices it goes such a long way.
Paperback, 2020
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness
Richard M. Ryan
The research term for autonomy, mastery, and belonging is “self-determination theory,” or SDT for short. It was developed in the 1980s by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, and popularized by the author @DanielPink. It is a powerful and elegant theory of motivation.
Paperback, 2018
$63.00$38.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Looks like Amazon is running a promotion where you can get these three books—Atomic Habits by @JamesClear, Courage is Calling by @RyanHoliday, and The Practice of Groundedness—for the price of two. Some other great titles included too. Happy reading. https://t.co/bgFSqIZuSw https://t.co/dbB0SeeMkR
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