Mastery by Robert Greene (Hardcover)

How the greats got great: finding your calling, surviving a long apprenticeship, learning from mentors and eventually seeing what others can't. Drawn from the lives of Da Vinci, Darwin, Mozart and modern masters.

Read it if: you want to become world-class at one thing and need the roadmap.

Third Shelf — a heavyweight. Save it for when your attention is back in shape.