Books like Examined Life by Stephen Grosz

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

Rolf Dobelli presents 99 concise chapters that explain everyday cognitive biases, showing how awareness can sharpen decision‑making at work and in life.

Explore how embracing vulnerability, courage, compassion, and connection can lead to authentic self‑acceptance and wholehearted living.

The Road Less Traveled encourages facing life's challenges as a path to deeper self‑understanding, emotional maturity, and healthier loving relationships.

Stephen Grosz turns over more than 50,000 hours of psychoanalytic conversations into clear, jargon‑free insights, revealing how talk, listening and understanding shape both patient and analyst.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

A seemingly unrelated group of aphorisms combine to reveal an arrangement that gathers power as the author presents arguments about desire, ambition, and failure.