‘Fascinating . . . lively storytelling and cutting-edge science, The Ritual Effect sticks with you'

Charles Duhigg

In this ground-breaking and inspiring guide, a renowned Harvard psychologist demonstrates how turning everyday habits into rituals can improve our work, our relationships and our lives.

Think of the quirky traditions that you keep up with your friends.

Or the unusual ways that you and your family mark special occasions.

Or the gifts that your partner gives – and what you’d ...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds

‘One of the most important books yet published this century’ Spectator

For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor.

At the f...

Winner of Thinkers50 ‘World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers’

Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

‘Absolutely outstanding’ Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist

‘A masterclass’ Angela Duckworth, author of Grit

‘Groundbreaking’ Forbes

We used to think of failure as a problem, to be avoided at all costs. Now, we're often told that failure is desirable - that we must ‘fail fast, fail often’. The trouble is, neither approach distinguishes the good...