Reading List
Only books and essays with a complete system — no one-line quotes. One original sentence on why each is worth your time.
Longevity Science
Evidence-based: what actually moves the needle on lifespan and healthspan.
Outlive
A physician's evidence-based playbook for extending not just lifespan but healthspan — through exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health.
The Blue Zones
Nine common habits found in the world's longest-lived villages, from Okinawa to Sardinia — most of them free.
Lifespan
A Harvard geneticist's case that aging is a treatable condition, not an inevitable decline.
How Not to Die
How the food on your plate can prevent — and even reverse — the leading causes of premature death.
The Longevity Diet
A biochemist's fasting-mimicking approach to eating for a longer life, backed by clinical trials.
Being Mortal
A surgeon's honest look at how modern medicine handles aging and dying — and how to do it better.
Forever Strong
A muscle-centric plan for healthy aging: why building muscle is the closest thing to an anti-aging drug.
Longevity Guidebook
Where AI, genomics, and cellular medicine converge — an XPRIZE founder's tour of the longevity revolution.
Wisdom from Two Worlds
A cardiologist's PRIME framework for longevity: Purpose, Rest, Interconnection, Movement, Eating.
Mind & Habits
The operating system: attention, habits, and emotional resilience.
The Let Them Theory
Two words that defuse stress — "let them": a simple mental tool for reclaiming your energy from other people's opinions.
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes, remarkable results: the definitive guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 1989 classic that founded the effectiveness genre — from being proactive to sharpening the saw; 40 million copies sold.
The Four Agreements
Four Toltec principles for personal freedom: be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, and two more.
The Body Keeps the Score
How trauma reshapes body and brain — and the proven paths back to recovery.
Inner Excellence
Train your mind like an athlete to live your best life — the mental framework behind peak performance.
Ikigai
What gives Okinawa's centenarians a reason to get up every morning — and how to find yours.
Wealth & Life
Money as a tool, not a goal — and the philosophy to match.
The Psychology of Money
Doing well with money has surprisingly little to do with how smart you are — and a lot to do with behavior.
"How to Get Rich" — the tweetstorm
The 2018 tweetstorm that started it all: seek wealth, not money or status. Forty tweets, zero fluff.
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100 safety lessons for kids, from China's beloved children's author — titles and original summaries on this site; buy the book for the full stories.
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