Drive - The Type I Reading List: Fifteen Essential Books

If you liked my posts on Daniel Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, you'll want to take a look at his Type I Reading List. 

I've added a few to my list of books to read.

The Type I Reading List: Fifteen Essential Books
Autonomy, mastery, and purpose are integral to the human condition, so it's no surprise that a number of writers -- from psychologists to journalists to novelists -- have explored these three elements and probed what they mean for our lives. This list of books, arranged alphabetically by author, isn't exhaustive, but it's a good starting point for anyone interested in cultivating a Type I Life:

1. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P Carse
2. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Seperates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
3. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4. Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation by Edward L Deci with Richard Flaste
5. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
6. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
7. Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, and William Damon
8. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
9. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
10. The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam
11. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
12. Once a Runner by John L Parker Jr.
13. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
14. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler
15. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M Senge

I was very surprised that several novels made this list.

Enjoy!