This book list covers the following mastery-related topics: creativity, influence, change, energy and drive, productivity and personal knowledge management.

All these books are well-researched, and written by credible experts and practitioners. None of these books are too difficult to grasp, or too dull to capture your interest.

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Creativity

The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

Write Time: Guide to the Creative Proces, from Vision through Revision - and Beyond, by Kenneth Atchity

Flow: the psychology of happiness, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Art of Learning, by Joshua Waitzkin

On Creativity, by David Bohm

Search Inside Yourself, by Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman & Jon Kabat-Zinn

Originals, by Adam Grant

Creativity Inc, by Ed Catmull

Old Masters and Young Geniuses: the Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, by David Galenson 

Influence

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

Nobody Needs to Read your Sh!t, by Steven Pressfield

On Writing Well, by William Zinsser

Start with Why, by Simon Sinek

Tribes, by Seth Godin

Visual Language, by Robert Horn

Buzzing Communities, by Richard Millington

Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?, by Mark Thompson

The Brain Audit, by Sean D'Souza

Change

Blue Ocean Strategy, by

Blue Ocean Shift, by W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge

NLP at Work, by Sue Knight

NLP Solutions, by Sue Knight

Beliefs, by Robert Dilts

Winning the Story Wars, by Jonah Sachs

Get the Life you Want, by Richard Bandler

The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

Solving Tough Problems: an Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating New Realities, by Adam Kahane

Energy and Drive

The Power of Meditation, by Sharon Salzberg

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Daring Greatly, by Brene Brown

Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth

You are the Placebo, by Joe Dispenza

Productivity & Personal Knowledge Management

Deep work, by Cal Newport

The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield

Getting Things Done, by David Allen

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey

Write Time: Guide to the Creative Proces, from Vision through Revision - and Beyond, by Kenneth Atchity

The Twelve Week Year, by Brian P Moran