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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the Secret to Happiness

By Mihály Csíkszentmihályi — 2008

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."

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The Cure to a Creative Block is Making Something You’ll Never Show Anyone Else

So making songs now that I know aren’t going to be heard by anybody else, it is an interesting thing. Because I think you have to do that now as an artist. I really do. —Donald Glover, Grantland interview

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Herbert Lui
2016
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Wired this Way: On Finding Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Well-Being as a Creator

Creators are wired complexly. In their lightest moments, they are passionate, ambitious, intuitive, and possess a host of other bright qualities.

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Jessica Carson
2025
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56 – How to Believe in Yourself with IT Cosmetics Founder Jamie Kern Lima

Jamie Kern Lima is proof that you can conquer self-doubt. Her belief that she could succeed helped her develop a billion-dollar cosmetic company. But she got rejected and turned down many times along the way.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile.

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Brianna Wiest
2025
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The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services.

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Natalie Nixon
2020
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Now, in this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling author Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity.

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Steven Pressfield
2012
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How Tony Robbins Created an Empire by Being the Most Confident Man on Earth: The World's Most Famous Self-Help Entrepreneur Lets Us into His Lair.

If Tony Robbins told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? Marc Benioff would. He did.

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Inc.
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Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck

A friendly, funny, practical guide for creatives and entrepreneurs, written by a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, and Krishna Das, among many others.

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David Nichtern
2019
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Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being

Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry.

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Linda Graham, Rick Hanson (foreword)
2013
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