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How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You
Want to Be

Katy Milkman (Author, Narrator), Angela Duckworth - foreword (Author), Angela Duckworth
(Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

Award-winning Wharton professor and Choiceology podcast host Katy Milkman has devoted her
career to the study of behavior change. In this groundbreaking book, Milkman reveals a proven
path that can take you from where you are to where you want to be, with a foreword from psy-
chologist Angela Duckworth, the best-selling author of Grit.

Set audacious goals. Foster good habits. Create social support. You’ve surely heard this advice
before. If you’ve ever tried to change or encourage it - to boost exercise or healthy eating, to prevent missed deadlines or
kick-start savings - then you know there are thousands of apps, books, and YouTube videos promising to help and offering
sound guidance. And yet, you’re still not where you want to be.

This trailblazing book from award-winning behavioral scientist and Wharton professor Katy Milkman explains why. In a
career devoted to uncovering what helps people change, Milkman has discovered a crucial thing many of us get wrong: our
strategy. Change, she’s learned, comes most readily when you understand what’s standing between you and success and
tailor your solution to that roadblock. If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading
a goal-setting app probably won’t help. But what if, instead, you transformed your workouts so they became a source of
pleasure instead of a chore? Turning an uphill battle into a downhill one is the key to success.

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global
Empire
by Brad Stone (Author)
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his best-
seller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel
products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size
and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos’s empire, once housed in
a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s
cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post, it’s impossible to
go a day without encountering its impact. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by
Amazon and its iconoclast founder. In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported,
vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities
in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky
technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global
ambitions; who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids. Definitive,
timely, and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern
life without.

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert (Author)
Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gil-
bert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share
her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosi-
ty, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our
curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how
to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in or-
der to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism,
Gilbert encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden within each of us. Whether
we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark
on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion,
Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.