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Every title is built from the same four pieces — so you always know exactly what you are getting, and how to use it.

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Key ideas, no filler

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See the whole model

A mind map lays out how the ideas connect, plus a glossary for the key terms.

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A 10-day action plan

One concrete task a day turns the ideas into a habit you keep.

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A real-world simulation gives you a tough scenario and a worked solution.

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Unplaying: Chatter

16 min
Ethan Kross

Your inner voice can build you up or spiral you down — the science of steering it toward clarity.

PsychologySelf-HelpScience & Math
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Unplaying: The Obstacle Is the WayFree

Unplaying: The Obstacle Is the Way

14 min
Ryan Holiday

The ancient art of turning what blocks your path into the path itself.

Self-HelpPhilosophyStoicism
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Unplaying: Skin in the GameFree

Unplaying: Skin in the Game

15 min
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why the people who give advice rarely pay the price for being wrong.

Business & EconomicsPhilosophyPsychology
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Unplaying: Tiny Habits

16 min
BJ Fogg

Why the smallest actions, done right, outlast the biggest resolutions.

Self-HelpPsychologyPersonal Development
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Unplaying: The Big ShortFree

Unplaying: The Big Short

11 min
Michael Lewis

How the people who saw it coming became the most hated men in finance.

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14 min
Eric Ries

What if everything you believed about business planning was backwards?

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Here are three of the real key ideas from this title. Every Unplay breaks the book down into a model like this — then hands you the plan to live it.

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Fiction Enables Scale

Human cooperation in large groups depends on shared beliefs in things that do not physically exist. Money, nations, and corporations are all collective fictions that function because enough people believe in them. This capacity is unique to our species and explains our global dominance.

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Agriculture as Trap

The shift to farming increased total food production and population but often decreased individual well-being. The analysis reframes the agricultural revolution not as liberation but as a partial trap that created hierarchy, harder labor, and narrower lives in exchange for survival security.

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Stories Justify Power

Every hierarchy presents itself as natural and inevitable. The caste system, divine kingship, and modern meritocracy all use origin stories to make human inventions feel like cosmic facts. Recognizing this does not dissolve the power, but it reveals its fragility.

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