External learning resources for growth
Learning gathered along the way.
Thrive grew through years of reading, courses, reflection and lived experience. Laura often helped find the next resource and encouraged the learning that followed. This page will acknowledge the outside voices and materials that helped inform the system.
Books
Books that contributed ideas, questions and practices to the learning journey behind Thrive.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Hidden Potential
Adam Grant
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
The 5 AM Club
Robin Sharma
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
Mapping Cloud Nine
Steven Kotler
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
Limitless
Jim Kwik
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
Vishen Lakhiani
The Art of Fear
Kristen Ulmer
Lifespan
David Sinclair & Matthew LaPlante
Counterclockwise
Ellen Langer
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara
The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
The Buddha and the Badass
Vishen Lakhiani
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain
Andrew Newberg, M.D. & Mark Robert Waldman
Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
The Power of Moments
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Think Again
Adam Grant
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee
John Little
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
Your Stand Is Your Brand
Patrick Gentempo
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul
Deepak Chopra
How to See Yourself as You Really Are
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest
Quit
Annie Duke
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
Bold
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
Switch
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Upstream
Dan Heath
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Art of Impossible
Steven Kotler
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Radical Focus
Christina Wodtke
That Will Never Work
Marc Randolph
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
How to Decide
Annie Duke
Vivid Vision
Cameron Herold
Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
Everything Is Figureoutable
Marie Forleo
Who Not How
Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
The Molecule of More
Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass R. Sunstein
Courses
Guided learning experiences that supported the same ongoing process of exploration and growth.
5 Days to a Powerful Memory
Jim Kwik
Superbrain
Jim Kwik
Super Reading
Jim Kwik
The 6 Phase Meditation
Vishen Lakhiani
The Habit of Ferocity
Steven Kotler
The New Psychology of Winning
Denis Waitley
Sixth Sense Superpower
Sonia Choquette
Life Visioning Mastery
Michael Beckwith
Modern Qigong
Lee Holden
Zero to Dangerous
Flow Research Collective
Lifebook
Jon & Missy Butcher
Duality
Jeffrey Allen
Money EQ
Ken Honda
The Quest for Personal Mastery
Dr. Srikumar Rao
The Art of Manifesting
Regan Hillyer
Awaken the Species
Neale Donald Walsch
The Silva Ultramind System
Vishen Lakhiani
Mystic Brain
Dawson Church
Becoming Focused and Indistractable
Nir Eyal
These resources informed parts of the learning journey; they are not presented as endorsements of Thrive. Credit belongs to each original author, teacher and creator.
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