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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 — 839,713 ratings — published 1989
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 611,338 ratings — published 2011
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 197,284 ratings — published 2016
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,400,246 ratings — published 2018
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 392,930 ratings — published 1937
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
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avg rating 3.90 — 341,355 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 886,244 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 470,269 ratings — published 1997
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 279,370 ratings — published 2009
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,185,597 ratings — published 1936
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 181,464 ratings — published 2006
Ego Is the Enemy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 91,904 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 236,464 ratings — published 2017
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 135,874 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 — 1,474,138 ratings — published 2016
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 170,082 ratings — published 2001
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 75,592 ratings — published 2012
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 121,927 ratings — published 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 276,005 ratings — published 2018
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 755,046 ratings — published 1997
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 574,474 ratings — published 2012
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 50,942 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 — 52,332 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,315,960 ratings — published 2011
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 241,159 ratings — published 1999
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 138,400 ratings — published 2021
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 — 205,907 ratings — published 2018
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 251,635 ratings — published 1926
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 19,357 ratings — published 2019
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 25,432 ratings — published 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 23,589 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 — 38,209 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 927,268 ratings — published 1946
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 124,393 ratings — published 2007
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 544,902 ratings — published 1997
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 182,975 ratings — published 1984
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 139,285 ratings — published 1995
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 4.06 — 51,819 ratings — published 2012
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 157,536 ratings — published 2013
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 83,129 ratings — published 2019
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 865,558 ratings — published 2000
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 375,676 ratings — published 180
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 30,706 ratings — published 2011
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 59,421 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 — 483,826 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 — 117,639 ratings — published 1944
The War of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122,893 ratings — published 2002
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 47,062 ratings — published 1998
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 224,428 ratings — published 2016
I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 65,187 ratings — published 2009
“A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.”
― The Existence Of God
― The Existence Of God
“In all summaries, the problems seem simpler than they actually are. In the following conclusions, anxiety may sound again like an abnormal condition affecting only unfortunate individuals. I would like to emphasize again that anxiety is a life-long challenge. The tradegy of Brown is that his anxiety, which was severe enough at times to remove almost all possibilities from his existence, is mainly destructive and paralyzingly rather than challenging and enlivening. I hope the reader will keep in mind the essential humanness of anxiety.”
― The Meaning of Anxiety
― The Meaning of Anxiety
