Resources

Welcome to my handpicked collection of resources, featuring a small selection of the best tools to help you adopt and apply each of the 21 principles of Agilism in your life.

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LONGEVITY

• The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity - Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott
• The Longevity Economy - Joseph Coughlin
• The Way You Think About Aging Affects Your Wellbeing and How Long You Will Live - Forbes
• Generational Labels: Why It's Time to Put Them To Rest - Forbes
• How to Change Your Mindset About Aging - New York Times
• The Longevity Blueprint - Ben Greenfield

NONLINEARITY

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
• How Nonlinear Careers Are Becoming the New Normal - The Atlantic
• Why Nonlinear Career Paths Are The Future - Forbes
• The 2 Most Important Skills for the Rest of Your Life - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Portfolio Career Podcast - Seth Godin

LIFESTYLE DESIGN

• The Portfolio Life: Future-Proof Your Career and Craft a Life Worthy of You - Christina Wallace
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
• Don't Treat Your Life as a Single Project - Nautilus
• Why You Should Change Your Life Every Decade - Psychology Today
• Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling - TED Talk by Emilie Wapnick

BALANCED PRODUCTIVITY

• The Things You Can Only See When You Slow Down - Haemin Sunim & Chi-Young Kim
• Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout - Cal Newport
• How Being Busy Has Become a Status Symbol - The Atlantic
• Liminal Space: What Is It and How Can It Affect Your Mental Health? - Forbes

NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY

• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Clearly and Others Don't - Julia Galef
• Alien Thinking: How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life - Cyril Bouquet
• Can You Learn to Navigate Uncertainty? - BBC Future
• How to Deal With Uncertainty - Mark Manson
• Gamifying Chaos: Embracing Uncertainty Through Play - Jessica Creane
• Why Change is so Scary - and How to Unlock Its Potential - Maya Shankar

UNDERSTANDING RANDOMNESS

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters - Brian Klaas
• Can You Accept the Randomness of Life? - Psychology Today
• How Chance Affects Our Lives Way More Than You Think: The Mathematics of Randomness - Zach Star

GENERATING LUCK

• The Luck Factor - Richard Wiseman
• The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck - Michael Moubussin
• The Role of Luck in Life Success is Far Greater Than We Realized - Scott Barry Kaufmann
• You're Not So Smart. You're Just Lucky: New Study Discovers the Role Luck Plays in Success - Interesting Engineering
• The Secret of Luck: Derren Brown's Experiment - Derren Brown

PROBABILISTIC THINKING

• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Chances Are: Adventures in Probability - Michael and Ellen Kaplan
• Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities - Scientific American
• What is Probabilistic Thinking? - Productivity Guy

PRESSING RESET

• Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results - Barry O'Reilly
• The Dangerous Myth of Reinvention - Marc Freedman
• The Whacky Neuroscience of Forgetting How to Ride a Bicycle - Psychology Today
• The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day

IDENTITY

• Personality Isn't Permanent - Benjamin Hardy
• Stumbling on Happiness - Dan Gilbert
• Why to Start Considering Your Possible Selves - Psychology Today
• What the Year 2050 Has in Store for Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• Becoming You - The New Yorker
• As the Old Self Dissolves, A New Self Arises Out of Its Ashes – British Psychological Society

HANDLING FAILURE

• How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Scott Adams
• Fail Fast, Fail Often - Ryan Babineaux
• Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success - John Maxwell
• How to Know When to Give Up on Goals - Marc Manson
• How to Fail - Elizabeth Day

STORY MASTERY

• Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change - Timothy D. Wilson
• You Are Not So Smart - David McRaney
• Building Resilience: Your Family Stories Matter - Spark and Stitch Institute
• Why You Have to Question the Stories You Tell Yourself - Psychology Today
• The Danger of a Single Story - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)

EMOTIONAL BURDENS

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine
• The Art of Letting Go - Damon Zahariades
• The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith
• Letting Go - John Kabat-Zinn

BECOMING ANTIFRAGILE

• Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - Steve Magness
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do - Amy Morin
• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Jonathan Haidt
• Curveballs and Blindspots: Navigating Uncertainty - Bonny LaPorte

MENTAL FRAMEWORKS

• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
• The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us - Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
• The Half-Life of Facts - Samuel Arbesman
• Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things - The Prism
• Don't Get Caught in the Monkey Trap - The Guardian

CAUTIONARY THINKING

• Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside The Science of Motivation - Gabriele Oettingen
• The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking - Oliver Burkeman
• The Last of Us: Why We Should All Think Like Preppers - And How to Do It - The Conversation
• The Stoic Art of Negative Visualization - The Daily Stoic
• Stockdale Paradox: A Message for Uncertain Times - Jim Collins

MASTERING THE MOMENT

• Stop Living on Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life - Antonio Neves
• Essentialism - Greg McKeown
• Willpower Doesn't Work - Benjamin Hardy
• What Hunter-Gatherers Can Teach Us About The Frustrations of Modern Work - The New Yorker
• Here's How My Perception of Time Has Changed - The Conversation
• In Uncertain Times, The Best Strategy is Adaptability - Harvard Business Review

FALLACIES

• The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck - Michael Mauboussin
• Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy - Robert Frank
• The Myth of the ‘Overnight Success’ and How Brilliant Ideas Actually Emerge – Entrepreneur
• Is Success Luck or Hard Work? - Veritasium

PIVOTS

• Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly
• Stumbling Upon Happiness - Dan Gilbert
• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned - Kenneth Stanley
• The Magic of Small Steps - Scott Young
• Start Close By -David Whyte

SMALL BETS

• Fail Fast, Fail Often - Ryan Babineaux
• Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals - James Altucher
• Why Is Tinkering So Important and Why Should We Care? - Tinkerlab
• Why Thinking Like a Scientist Is Good for You - Greater Good Magazine
• Tinkering is Greater Than Knowledge – Nassim Taleb

PORTFOLIO THINKING

• The Portfolio Life: Future-Proof Your Career and Craft a Life Worthy of You - Christina Wallace
• How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up - Emilie Wapnick
• Why It's Time to Consider a Portfolio Career - Forbes
• Why the Career of the Future Needs a Portfolio Approach - Time
• Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling - TED Talk by Emilie Wapnick

THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES

• Becoming Real: Defeating the Stories We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back - Gail Salz