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Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

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Chris Clearfield is a science geek and a reformed derivatives trader who became more interested in writing about risk than taking it. He's the coauthor of 
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 with his friend and longtime collaborator András Tilcsik. Chris lives in Seattle, Washington with his family. When he's not writing or working on short author biographies, Chris, a certified flight instructor, can be found at the airport teaching people how to fly.Chris Clearfield is a science geek and a reformed derivatives trader who became more interested in writing about risk than taking it. He's the coauthor of 
  Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
 with his friend and longtime collaborator András Tilcsik. Chris lives in Seattle, Washington with his family. When he's not writing or working on short author biographies, Chris, a certified flight instructor, can be found at the airport teaching people how to fly.

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Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

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Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

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Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and bestselling author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On and Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior.Dr. Berger has spent over 15 years studying how social influence works and how it drives products and ideas to catch on. He’s published dozens of articles in top-tier academic journals, consulted for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, and popular outlets like the New York Times and Harvard Business Review often cover his work.

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Broderick Stephen Harvey is an American comedian, businessman and entertainer. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition and Fox's New Year's Eve. Harvey began his career as a comedian.

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Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is based on his early life.

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Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books.

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In spite of an astonishing appetite for life and a high quality of life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied.  There are epidemics of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity and time urgency in the world's most affluent nation.  Peter C.  Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of the brain's reward system.  The book presents a clear vantage point from which to understand the most pressing social issues of our time while offering an informed approach to refocusing our pursuit of happiness. ‍American Mania offers a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism. 

<p>&nbsp;Simon Oliver Sinek is a British-American author and motivational speaker. His first book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , was published in 2009; his most recent book, <a href="https://bestbooks.to/book/the-infinite-game_simon-sinek" target="_self">The Infinite Gam</a>e: The Pursuit of Happiness in Its Own Terms , was published in 2017. He has been featured as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, TEDx conferences, and at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.</p>


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