The Maturity Library
These are the main sources, in text, for my own Road to Maturity.
The Library is updated, twisted and tweaked, according to my mood, whims and eureka moments.
I hope you find some good reads.
Catalogue
New To Maturity? - Here Are Some Starters
| Author | Title |
| Frankl, Victor E. | Man’s Search For Meaning |
| Maslow, Abraham | A Theory of Human Motivation |
| *Muk, Kosjenka | Emotional Maturity |
| Sinek, Simon | Leaders Eat Last |
| *The School of Life | How to Reform Capitalism |
| *Two personal favourites |
Central Books
| Author | Title |
| Acemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James A. | Why Nations Fail |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | After Ten Years |
| Bradberry, Travis & Greaves, Jean | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 |
| Cialdini, Robert | Influence |
| Frankl, Victor E. | Man’s Search For Meaning |
| Goleman, Daniel | Working with Emotional Intelligence |
| Grant, Adam | Think Again |
| Halpern, David | Social Capital |
| Kahneman, Daniel | Thinking Fast and Slow |
| Maslow, Abraham | A Theory of Human Motivation |
| Maslow, Abraham | Motivation and Personality |
| Morler, Edward | The Leadership Integrity Challenge. Assessing and Facilitating Emotional Maturity |
| Muk, Kosjenka | Emotional Maturity |
| Mullainathan, Sendhil & Shafir, Eldar | Scarcity |
| Overgaard, Niels | Det hele handler ikke om deg. It is not all about you. My translation (about Stoicism). |
| Pinker, Steven | Enlightenment Now |
| Prilleltensky, Isaac & Prilleltensky, Ora | How People Matter |
| Sinek, Simon | Leaders Eat Last |
| The School of Life | How to Reform Capitalism |
Other Good Books
| Author | Title |
| Abrahamsen, David | The Road to Emotional Maturity |
| Broadbridge, Edward, Jonas Uffe & Warren, Clay | The School for Life. N.F.S. Grundtvig. |
| Dahl, Robert | Polyarchy |
| Dawkins, Richard | The God Delusion |
| Ferguson, James | The Anti-Politics Machine. “Development,” Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho |
| Grayling, A.C. | The Good Book |
| Hitchens, Christopher | Letters to a Young Contrarian |
| Moore, Alan | DO / DESIGN/ Why Beauty Is Key to Everything |
| Partanen, Anu | The Nordic Theory of Everything. In Search of a Better Life |
| Prilleltensky, Isaac & Prilleltensky, Ora | Promoting Well-Being |
| Stridh, Anders & Wittberg, Lennart | Från fruktad skattefogde till omtyckt servicemyndighet From feared tax bailiff to popular service instituton (my translation) |
| Sunstein, Cass & Thaler, Richard | Nudge |
| The School of Life | Self- Knowledge |
| Vilis, Vitois | On Russia. A Neighbour’s Experience |
Novels
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
| Author | Title |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Ferrante, Elena | The four Neapolitan novels, starting with “My Brilliant Friend.” |
| Kemal, Yasar | They Burn the Thistles |
| Lindgren, Astrid | The Brothers Lionheart. A children’s book even for grownups. |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement |
| Nexø, Martin Andersen | Pelle the Conqueror |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | Three Comrades |
| Shute, Nevil | A Town Like Alice |
| Steinbeck, John | The Pearl |
| Szczypiorski, Andrzej | A Mass For Arras |
| Tolsoy, Leo | War and Peace |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario | The War of the End of the World |
| Wiesel, Elie | The Town Beyond the Wall |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son |
Websites
| SUBJECT | NAME OF THE WEBSITE | CREATOR |
| Behaviour and Development | Mind, Behaviour and Development Unit | World Bank |
| Critical Thinking | Thinking Is Power | Melanie Trecek-King |
| Narcissism | Dr. Ramani | Dr. Ramani Durvasula |
| Self-actualization and Transcendence | Scott Barry Kaufman | Scott Barry Kaufman |
| Self-Knowledge and other life issues | The School of Life | The philosopher Alain de Botton and others. |
Articles and Essays
| Author | Title |
| Alexander, Franz | Emotional Maturity (1967) |
| Golec de Zavala, A. & Lantos, D. | Collective Narcissism and Its Social Consequences: The Bad and the Ugly |
| Kaufman, Scott Barry | The Pressing Need for Everyone to Quiet Their Egos |
| MacKerron, G., Moat, H., Preis, T. & Seresinhe, C. | Happines is Greater in More Scenic Locations |
| Morris, William | The Housing of the Poor |
| Morris, William | Art under Plutocracy |
| Morris, William | How We Live and How We Might Live |
| The School of Life | On the Desire to Change the World |
| The School of Life | Utopian Government |
| The School of Life | Utopian Education |
| The School of Life | What Community Centres Should Be Like |
| The School of Life | Why Humanity Destroyed Itself |
| The School of Life | Art Is Advertising for What We Really Need |
| The School of Life | The Importance of Utopian Thinking |
| The School of Life | A Guide to Good Nationalism |
| The School of Life | Political Emotional Maturity |
| The School of Life | Why Socrates Hated Democracy |
| The School of Life | Why We Need to Keep Growing Up |
Miscellaneous
| MEMOIRS | |
| Min, Anchee | Red Azalea (About the Cultural Revolution in China) |
| PLAYS | |
| Ibsen, Henrik | An Enemy of the People |
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