"The Easy Way to Stop Putting Things Off" is a classic book on procrastination by psychologist Neil Fiore. Her main argument is fundamentally different from the usual advice to “just pull yourself together”: according to the author, procrastination isn’t laziness or a lack of discipline, but a way to cope with anxiety.

"The Time Master" is a book about time management whose central thesis is unusual for the genre. Tracy argues that we often can’t get started on a task not because of laziness or a lack of discipline, but because we’ve chosen the wrong time to do it. In other words, the question isn’t just WHAT to do, but also WHEN to do it.

In 2013, Gary Keller, founder of America’s largest real estate network, along with his partner Jay Papazan, published a book that strikes at the very heart of modern productivity culture. The main thesis is simple yet counterintuitive: don’t do more; do less—but focus on what really matters.