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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 828,959 ratings — published 1989
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 597,261 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,535 ratings — published 2018
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 192,436 ratings — published 2016
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 386,412 ratings — published 1937
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
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avg rating 3.91 — 336,825 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 874,535 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 458,570 ratings — published 1997
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 272,931 ratings — published 2009
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,163,351 ratings — published 1936
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 230,618 ratings — published 2017
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.67 — 119,107 ratings — published 2018
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 177,972 ratings — published 2006
Ego Is the Enemy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 89,850 ratings — published 2016
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 133,168 ratings — published 2011
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,434,980 ratings — published 2016
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 168,712 ratings — published 2001
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 74,518 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 567,277 ratings — published 2012
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 271,232 ratings — published 2018
Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 737,866 ratings — published 1997
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 231,826 ratings — published 1999
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 49,738 ratings — published 2012
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 51,933 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,282,720 ratings — published 2011
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 131,355 ratings — published 2021
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 245,875 ratings — published 1926
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 25,041 ratings — published 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 22,923 ratings — published 2014
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 38,026 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 897,052 ratings — published 1946
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122,833 ratings — published 2007
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 529,732 ratings — published 1997
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 179,260 ratings — published 1984
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 137,144 ratings — published 1995
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 203,474 ratings — published 2018
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 216,922 ratings — published 2016
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 19,021 ratings — published 2019
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 50,982 ratings — published 2012
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 80,795 ratings — published 2019
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 859,477 ratings — published 2000
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 359,441 ratings — published 180
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 30,347 ratings — published 2011
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 58,367 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 478,576 ratings — published 2012
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 116,566 ratings — published 1944
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 298,755 ratings — published 2001
The War of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 120,153 ratings — published 2002
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 335,260 ratings — published 2020
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 149,812 ratings — published 2021
“Today he'll talk about Hardy's elegies. "But what are they about?", his students will ask. They want the love story. How he hates this question, understanding, now, in the shade of his office, that poetry is among the few things that can survive this question. If the poem is very good it is very hard to say what it is about. It is this and it is not that. It seems like one thing and then, after a while, not so much, one's understanding always shifting with the images and the sounds. He'll add something on Tennyson, perhaps, something on rhyme. Something about that very question, about poems being on of the few things that cannot be summarized or that can survive such an evil with something left over, something else. Something remaining. A trouble. A pleasure. A little extra.”
― The Other Side of the World
― The Other Side of the World
“Summarizing is when you take a story that is complicated and interesting, then stick it in a microwave until it shrivels up into a tiny piece of black crunchy tarlike stuff. A wise man once said, "Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.”
― Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
― Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
