Thinker's Compass
Une collection de livres, exercices, profils et pratiques pour accompagner votre parcours. Filtrez par mode, durée, type ou dimension diagnostique pour trouver ce qui résonne avec là où vous en êtes.
Altered Traits: Does Meditation Actually Change Your Brain?
Goleman and Davidson separate the hype from the data, showing which meditation practices produce lasting structural chan...
Healthy Minds Program: Richard Davidson's Meditation App
The free, science-backed meditation app built by the neuroscientist behind Altered Traits. Structured training across aw...
Awaken the Giant Within: Is Tony Robbins Worth Reading?
An honest look at Tony Robbins' classic for skeptical engineers. What actually holds up (decisions, attention, physiolog...
Finding Your Own North Star: Martha Beck's Guide to Your Essential Self
Martha Beck's framework for distinguishing what you actually want from what everyone else expects of you. Body-based too...
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Book on Why Relationships Get Stuck
Why smart people have the same fights over and over. Sue Johnson explains the emotional spiral underneath every argument...
The Seven Conversations: A Practical Guide for Engineers
Sue Johnson's seven conversations from Hold Me Tight, adapted for analytical people. Step-by-step guide with engineer-sp...
Compassionate Inquiry Course: Gabor Maté's Root Cause Analysis for Humans
Gabor Maté's method for tracing emotional and behavioral patterns back to their origin. Like root cause analysis for sys...
Why Change Feels Like Everything Is Falling Apart
Martha Beck's four-square Change Cycle explains why even wanted changes trigger grief, why you can be thriving in one ar...
Tony Robbins' Priming Routine: A Pre-Flight Checklist for Your Brain
A 10-20 minute morning routine combining breathwork, gratitude, visualization, and intention-setting. Honest breakdown o...
The Perfect Day Exercise: What Hubble's Mirror Flaw Teaches About Your Life
Martha Beck's visualization exercise for discovering what you actually want vs. what you think you should want. Like Hub...
Inner Engineering by Sadhguru: An Engineer's Honest Review
Sadhguru's guide to inner well-being through yogic practices. An honest review that separates what works from what's ove...
Why Financial Stress Blocks Personal Growth (and What to Do About It)
Financial stress consumes the bandwidth you need for inner work. Tony Robbins' Money Master the Game as one starting poi...
Never Split the Difference: How to Negotiate as an Introvert Engineer
Chris Voss's FBI negotiation techniques are actually listening techniques. An honest review for engineers who are better...
The Happiness Lab Podcast: A Flight Manual for Well-Being Research
Laurie Santos translates decades of happiness research into something you can actually use. The flight manual vs. the en...
Alex Hormozi for Engineers: Business Frameworks Worth Knowing
Hormozi brings the engineering mindset to business: systematic, measurable, iterative. His offer framework and volume-ba...
What High-Performance Coaches Have in Common (Brendon Burchard)
Burchard's six high-performance habits map onto tools already in the Compass. That convergence is the point. Different t...
Why Parenting Triggers You: Daniel Siegel's Neuroscience Explained
The most important parenting book turns out to be about you. Siegel's neuroscience shows that your reactions to your chi...
The Whole-Brain Child: Systems Integration for Your Kid's Brain
Daniel Siegel's twelve brain-based parenting strategies, explained with neuroscience. Name It to Tame It, Connect and Re...
Eckhart Tolle: Finding the Signal Underneath the Noise
Tolle teaches that peace isn't something you create. It's what remains when you stop generating mental noise. Like LIGO ...
The Power of Now: A Review for Analytical People
Tolle's most important book, explained for skeptics. You are not your thoughts. The present moment is enough. Pain is un...
The Tao Te Ching for Engineers: Ancient Wisdom on Effortless Action
2,500-year-old wisdom poetry that keeps showing up in modern psychology and neuroscience. Voyager 2 reached Neptune not ...
Internal Family Systems Explained Simply: Your Mind as a Spacecraft
Richard Schwartz's IFS sees the mind as a system of interacting parts, not a single self. Like Voyager 1's dormant thrus...
Gabor Maté: Why Stress Causes Illness and What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
Maté's work connects childhood emotional patterns to adult physical health. Like an immune system that keeps fighting af...
Tim Ferriss: The Reverse Engineer of High Performance
Ferriss curates and tests what high performers actually do. Most of it exists in deeper form elsewhere in the Compass. H...
Vanessa Van Edwards: Social Skills Are Trainable (Yes, Even for Engineers)
Communication and empathy aren't personality traits. They're complex skills that most people learned in childhood and do...
The Myth of Normal: Why Being Healthy Means Being Weird
Maté's argument that the baseline for 'normal' is itself sick. Overwork, emotional suppression, and disconnection aren't...
Brené Brown: Why Vulnerability Is the Hardest Skill for Engineers
Brown's research shows vulnerability isn't weakness. It's the birthplace of connection, creativity, and courage. The con...
Byron Katie's The Work: Four Questions That Test Your Mental Canals on Mars
Your mind maps canals that don't exist, then spends years collecting evidence. Byron Katie's four questions test whether...
Ram Dass: Service, Identity, and the Heart That Stays Open
The helper needs to help. The spacecraft needs to transmit. Neither is doing the other a favor. Ram Dass on service as m...
A Lion Tracker's Guide to Life: Follow the Next Track
Boyd Varty's tracking metaphor for navigating uncertainty: know the direction (the lion), see the next sign (the track),...
Wild New World: What Happens at the Edge of What Science Can Verify
Martha Beck's most controversial book. Claims that go beyond current evidence. Semmelweis was committed to an asylum for...
Solve for Happy: The Engineer's Equation for Why You're Unhappy
Mo Gawdat's happiness equation: reality minus expectations. A launch scrub isn't caused by weather. It's caused by the g...
8 Patterns That Keep Showing Up Across Every Teacher in This Compass
After reviewing 30+ resources, the same insights keep appearing independently. You are not your thoughts. Vulnerability ...
What Actually Works: Compass Practices Ranked by Impact and Evidence
Not everything carries the same weight. Breathwork and affect labeling have the strongest evidence AND the highest impac...
What Ancient Traditions Agree On (Across Continents and Millennia)
Breath practices, stillness, compassion, fasting, community, service, and surrender show up in every major tradition ind...
The Engineer's Field Guide to Your Inner World: Every Metaphor in the Compass
LIGO, Hubble, Apollo 13, Voyager, Mars Orbiter, Spirit's wheel, Air France 447, the Space Shuttle, WWII bombers. Every a...