Understanding the science behind your decision making and behavior is a great asset in the battle to a more fulfilled life.

Psychology

What if the harshest voice in your life is your own? Kristin Neff reveals how relentless self-criticism fuels anxiety, procrastination, and emotional collapse — and how treating yourself with genuine kindness builds the resilience, motivation, and connection that self-esteem alone can never provide.

Self-Compassion

Your brain isn't broken — it learned too well. Neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis challenges the idea that addiction is a chronic disease, revealing how deeply carved habits and desire reshape neural circuits. Through five real recovery stories and cutting-edge brain science, this microbook shows why understanding addiction as learning — not illness — opens a real path forward.

The Biology of Desire

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Studies keep showing that many people feel more comforted by a chatbot than by another person. The reason reveals four simple listening habits we lost, and how to get them back.

What the machine teaches us about listening

Your inner voice never stops — and sometimes it turns against you. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, this microbook explains why mental chatter hijacks focus, strains relationships, and even damages your health, then delivers concrete, science-backed tools to regain control of the voice in your head without silencing it.

Chatter

Dopamine is not the pleasure molecule — it's the molecule of wanting more. This microbook reveals how a single brain chemical shapes romantic obsession, addiction, creative genius, political beliefs, and humanity's restless drive to conquer the future, and what it takes to finally feel satisfied without losing your spark.

The Molecule of More

Social anxiety isn't a personality flaw — it's a misfiring alarm system. This microbook draws on neuroscience and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you silence your Inner Critic, dismantle avoidance habits, and build genuine confidence by acting before fear disappears. Real connection starts when you stop hiding.

How to Be Yourself

Anxiety hides inside everyday habits — the midnight snack, the endless scroll, the restless worry loop. Judson Brewer, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, reveals how the brain's reward system fuels anxiety like an addiction, and how curiosity and mindfulness can quietly rewire those cycles without relying on willpower alone.

Unwinding Anxiety

Depression isn't a broken brain — it's a specific pattern of neural communication that can be gently reversed. Drawing on neuroscience research, this microbook shows how small, concrete changes in movement, sleep, decisions, breath, and connection send new chemical signals that tip the brain toward an upward spiral, one manageable step at a time.

The Upward Spiral

Your brain is not fixed — it's software you can rewrite. Drawing on neuroscience, this microbook explains how chronic stress, negativity bias, and autopilot habits keep you stuck, and what it actually takes to build new neural pathways through sleep, movement, mindset shifts, and small daily choices that compound into lasting change.

Rewire

Your brain is wired to hold onto the bad and let the good slip away. A survival relic that fuels modern anxiety. Rick Hanson shows how twelve seconds of deliberate attention on ordinary pleasant moments can physically reshape your neural pathways, building lasting calm, resilience, and a quiet sense of worth from the inside out.

Hardwiring Happiness

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Self-Help & Motivation

As its rather baroque subtitle suggests, “The Mental Toughness Handbook” is a step-by-step guide to building mental resilience and overcoming setbacks and obstacles. In addition to exploring the fundamentals of mental toughness and the crucial traits of mentally tough people, the book also offers a 10-step mental toughness training program and even a guide to maintaining mental toughness

The Mental Toughness Handbook

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

GDP, Trade balance, foreign capital. Everything about global trade is here!

Economics

Two identical cases, two wildly different outcomes, and no one notices. Daniel Kahneman reveals that the biggest threat to good decisions is not bias but noise, the invisible randomness hiding inside every judgment we make.

Noise

Biology, physics and a lot of experimentation!  

Science

In “Descartes’ Error,” eminent Portuguese-American neuroscientist Antonio Damasio draws on the famous Phineas Gage affair and his personal experiences with neurological patients affected by brain damage to challenge traditional ideas about the relationship between emotions and rationality. Ultimately, he shows that, rather than being its deterrent, emotions are actually a fundamental part of rational thinking.

Descartes’ Error

In “The Brain That Changes Itself” author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge looks at new medical research on the functioning of the brain. For most of medical history it was believed that the brain was fixed, but it has now been proven that the brain continually changes itself. This has revealed new ways of dealing with stroke or anxiety patients and has even shown how blind people can regain their sight!

The Brain That Changes Itself

A discovery in the brain's own immune cells is challenging the dominant model of anxiety treatment. This Radar breaks down the study, what it changes, and what's still worth doing while the science catches up.

What anxiety is, and what to do about it

The largest study ever conducted on regret reveals an uncomfortable pattern: in the end, almost no one regrets what they dared, only what they didn't. Why the emotion you were taught to despise is actually the most informative one you have.

The science of regret

What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

Cicero trained his voice against the sound of the waves. Demosthenes rehearsed with pebbles in his mouth. Churchill repeated every speech in front of the mirror. The greatest orators in history were not born fluent... they learned to speak the way someone learns to lift weights. This Radar shows why rhetoric is the most underestimated muscle of any career, and why the professional who knows how to name what she does rises faster than the technically equal or superior colleague who cannot explain herself.

The power of rhetoric

Personal Development

Daniel Goleman’s “Emotional Intelligence” summarizes research from a decade of studies and shows us why emotional intelligence (EI) is just as important for a successful life as our IQ. Contrary to the academic knowledge measured by the IQ, EI is multifaceted and has an impact on our work performance, our relationships, and our health.
Goleman argues for a shift in educational focus: he makes the case for educating our children in the art of emotional intelligence, to prevent the rise of mental health issues and crime rates.


The aging of the world is being read as imminent catastrophe. There's another reading underway — in labor policy, in longevity science, and in the geopolitical rebalance between aging and younger economies. This Radar travels from Tokyo to Milan, Seoul, and Africa to make sense of a civilizational transition still being written, with names, dates, and a concept worth adopting into your vocabulary: designed longevity.

Aging Isn't the Crisis. It's the Achievement.

Healthy mind, healthy body. Take some moments of tranquility amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Spirituality & Mindfulness

Your nervous system decides how you feel before your brain decides what to think. Deb Dana translates Polyvagal Theory into a practical map of three biological states and teaches you how to stop shaming yourself for reactions that were designed to keep you alive.

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