Books like The talent code by Daniel Coyle

Daniel H. Pink explores how intrinsic motivation—not external rewards—drives better performance, creativity, and well‑being, drawing on three decades of research and practical examples for individuals and organizations.

Dan Ariely explores the hidden mechanisms of motivation and how understanding them can improve choices in work, education, and personal life.

This text sheds light on how people work - why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows: how these patterns originate in people's self-theories; their consequences for the person - for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; and the experiences that create them. Throughout, Dweck shows how examining self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development. This text is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, child development, and education, and is appropriate for both graduate and senior undergraduate students in these areas.