Below is a list of some of the more important references that went into this Blueprint. The list is not comprehensive. It would be impossible to list all the data, research and thinking that I used. I will not list research studies because hundreds went into this and it would take too long. Rather this list comprises some of the most important books on the topic which you can further read to deepen your understanding

Behave - Robert M. Sapolsky

The Molecule of More - Daniel Lieberman

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

Thinking Fast, and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Why the West Rules - for Now - Ian Morriss

Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond

Atomic Habits - James Clear

The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

Tiny Habits - B.J. Fogg

How Emotions are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke

Stolen Focus - Johann Hari

Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky

Deep Work - Cal Newport

A world without Email - Cal Newport

Grit - Angela Duckworth

A Primate’s Memoir - Robert Sapolsky

Effortless - Greg McKweon

Make Time - Jake Knapp

Journey of the Mind - Ogi Ogas

Lost Connections - Johann Hari

Hooked - Nir Eyal

The Trouble with Testosterone - Robert Sapolsky

Essentialism - Greg McKweon

The Status Game - Will Storr

Contagious - Jonah Berger

How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan

Human Behavioural Biology - Robert Sapolsky

The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond

Designing for Behaviour Change - Stephen Wendel

The Brain, The Story of You - David Eagleman

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt

Hit Makers - Derek Thompson

The Elephant in the Brain - Kevin Simler

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

Catalyst, How To Change Anyone’s Mind - Jonah Berger

Incognito - David Eagleman

The Circadian Code - Satchin Panda

Nudge - Richard Thaler

Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

The Undiscovered Self - Carl Jung

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert Cialdini

Chatter - Ethan Kross

Primate Change - Cregan-Reid Vybarr

Mindset - Carol Dweck

The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt

Why we sleep - Matthew Walker

The Social Animal - David Brooks

Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels - Ian Morris

How to do Nothing - Jenny Odell

Four Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss

The Upside of Irrationality - Dan Ariely

The Fat Switch - Richard Johnson

Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss

The Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Pollan

Stillness is the Key - Ryan Holiday

Lessons of History - Will Durand

Strangers to Ourselves - Timothy Wilson

Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss

Livewired - David Eagleman

A Hunter-gatherer’s Guide to the 21st century - Heather Heying

Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz

The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

Being You - Anil Seth

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

The Origin of Our Species - Chris Stringer

Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber

How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smith

Factfulness - Hans Rosling

Collapse - Jared Diamond

The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi

Think Again - Adam Grant

Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian

Willpower Instinct - Kelly McGonigal

Indistractible - Nir Eyal

Humankind - Rutger Bregman

The 80/ 20 Principle - Richard Koch

Superforecasting - Philp Tetlock

Just Babies, The Origin of Good and Evil - Paul Bloom

The Comfort Crisis - Michaesl Easter

The Ego and the Id - Sigmund Freud

The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver

A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger

The Antidote - Oliver Burkeman

Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink

The Lucifer Effect - Philip Zimbardo

Drive - Daniel Pink

The Four - Scott Galloway

The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday

Reframing: Neurolinguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning - Richard Bandler

Frogs into Princes - Richard Bandler

How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big - Scott Adams

Switch - Chip Heath

Good to Great - Jim Collins

Endure - Alex Hutchinson

How Pleasure Works - Paul Bloom

Big Gods - Ara Norenzayan

Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Evolving Self - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Allen Carr

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

The Bonobo and the Atheist - Frans de Waal

Flow - Mihaly Csickszentmihalyi