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The 7 Best Books on Understanding People
Every list of books on understanding people recommends the same three titles and stops. This one starts from the whole shelf: 500 books distilled into lessons, examples and action steps. These 7 are the ones worth your week, and every one is free to read here, right now, in your language.
Games People Play
Every conversation has two layers: the overt exchange and the hidden game underneath. Berne maps the recurring games, Why Don't You Yes But, NIGYSOB, See What You Made Me Do, so you can stop playing them and relate adult to adult.
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The Laws of Human Nature
Everyone you meet is driven by forces they don't see: irrationality, narcissism, envy, roles, and their shadow. Learn the laws or be played by them.
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The 48 Laws of Power
Power is a social game. Learn its laws - to play them or to defend against those who play them on you.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Your fast, intuitive System 1 runs your life; your slow, rational System 2 mostly just approves its drafts. Know when to override.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than in two years trying to get people interested in you.
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Attached
Adult love runs on attachment styles, secure, anxious or avoidant, formed in childhood and running silently in every relationship. Knowing your style and your partner's converts fighting about behaviour into solving for needs.
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Emotional Intelligence
IQ gets you hired; EQ gets you promoted, married well, and mentally free. And unlike IQ, it's trainable for life.
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