The Canon, Distilled
Insights & MechanismsBy Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™
Length2h 22m
About this audiobook
Hundreds of business and self-help books make a few hundred claims, most of them repeated under different vocabulary, most of them flattened into the same confident rhetoric whether the evidence is solid or already failed to replicate. This is the extraction. Ninety-four distinct claims, stripped of framing and anecdote, each marked for what the research actually supports — solid, contested, weakened, oversold. The contradictions are surfaced rather than reconciled. What survives is a map; the territory is still the reader's to walk.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Self-Help
Length2 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2How to read this document
3CG. Cognitive Psychology
4CG-01 — Dual-process bias correction
5CG-02 — Loss aversion
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6CG-03 — Anchoring
7CG-04 — Availability heuristic
8CG-05 — Confirmation bias
9CG-06 — Planning fallacy
10CG-07 — Sunk cost fallacy
11CG-08 — Hindsight bias
12CG-09 — Overconfidence
13CG-10 — Base rate neglect
14CG-11 — Affective forecasting errors
15CG-12 — Peak-end rule
16CG-13 — Default effect
17CG-14 — Fundamental attribution error
18CG-15 — Spotlight effect
19CG-16 — Reciprocity
20CG-17 — Commitment and consistency
21CG-18 — Social proof
22CG-19 — Authority bias
23CG-20 — Scarcity as influence
24CG-21 — Liking
25CG-22 — Growth mindset
26CG-23 — Grit
27CG-24 — Deliberate practice
28CG-25 — Flow
29CG-26 — Self-determination theory
30CG-27 — Goal-setting effects
31ST. Strategy and Decision-Making
32ST-01 — Strategy means choosing trade-offs
33ST-02 — Industry structure beats firm skill
34ST-03 — Advantage from interlocking activities
35ST-04 — Compete on different dimensions
36ST-05 — Disruptive innovation
37ST-06 — Jobs to be done
38ST-07 — Crossing the chasm
39ST-08 — Asymmetric payoffs (convexity)
40ST-09 — Tail risk and ruin
41ST-10 — Forecasting accuracy is trainable
42ST-11 — Inversion and pre-mortem
43ST-12 — Optionality
44ST-13 — Reversible vs. irreversible decisions
45ST-14 — Skin in the game
46ST-15 — Strategy emerges as much as it's planned
47LM. Leadership and Management
48LM-01 — Manage yourself; manage strengths
49LM-02 — Decide what to stop doing
50LM-03 — Concentrate effort on a few priorities
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