Scott Campagna

The habits and behaviors that earned you success can be exactly what's holding you back from the next level. Goldsmith names the specific things high achievers do that quietly undermine them — and most of us are doing at least three of them. This one made me look at myself a lot more honestly.

The ability to change your mind — actually update your beliefs when evidence says you should — is a skill, not a personality trait. Grant convinced me that being confidently wrong and then publicly right is more powerful than never admitting you were wrong in the first place.

Everything I believe about leadership is in here somewhere. Vulnerability isn't weakness — it's the thing that actually builds trust. Brown gave language to a lot of things I'd been doing instinctively for years and helped me understand why they worked.

Clarke asks what happens to humanity when we get everything we think we want — and the answer is unsettling in a way that sticks with you for years. It's the book that made me realize science fiction is actually the best lens for thinking about where we're headed.

A quiet, devastating post-apocalyptic novel that strips away everything nonessential and asks: what actually matters? Not survival — anyone can survive — but what do you build, and why? One of the most underrated books I've ever read.

Greene makes string theory and the fabric of spacetime genuinely beautiful. This is what curiosity looks like at full throttle — a physicist so in love with the elegance of the universe that you can't help catching some of it. It's the reason I'll read physics books forever.