Continue on your personal journey with these incredible books.

There are thousands of great books out there… The ones mentioned below are just some we highly recommend for self-improvement and personal growth.

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• Book Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Author: Yuval Harari
• Genre/ Category: A Brief History of Humankind
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

New York Times Bestseller.
A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution — a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

• Book Title: Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
• Author: Bob Burg & Simon Sinek
• Genre/ Category: Discovering Your Purpose
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Start With Why has led millions of readers to rethink everything they do – in their personal lives, their careers and their organizations.

Now Find Your Why picks up where Start With Why left off. It shows you how to apply Simon Sinek’s powerful insights so that you can find more inspiration at work — and in turn inspire those around you.

I believe fulfillment is a right and not a privilege. We are all entitled to wake up in the morning inspired to go to work, feel safe when we’re there and return home fulfilled at the end of the day. Achieving that fulfilment starts with understanding exactly WHY we do what we do.

• Book Title: Man and His Symbols
• Author: Carl G. Jung
• Genre/ Category: Consciousness/ Self Awareness
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung’s own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating book. Here, Jung examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Convinced that dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self, Jung felt that self-understanding would lead to a full and productive life. Thus, the reader will gain new insights into himself from this thoughtful volume, which also illustrates symbols throughout history. Completed just before his death by Jung and his associates, it is clearly addressed to the general reader.

Praise for Man and His Symbols:
“This book, which was the last piece of work undertaken by Jung before his death in 1961, provides a unique opportunity to assess his contribution to the life and thought of our time, for it was also his firsat attempt to present his life-work in psychology to a non-technical public. . . . What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society, by insisting that imaginative life must be taken seriously in its own right, as the most distinctive characteristic of human beings.”—Guardian

“Straighforward to read and rich in suggestion.”- John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate
“This book will be a resounding success for those who read it.”- Galveston News-Tribune
“A magnificent achievement.”- Main Currents
“Factual and revealing.”- Atlanta Times

• Book Title: Proof of Heaven – A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife
• Author: Eben Alexander MD
• Genre/ Category: Consciousness/ Self Awareness
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.
Then, Dr. Alexander s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion and in essence makes us human shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander s eyes popped open. He had come back.

Alexander s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. Alexander s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.

This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.

• Book Title: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
• Author: Stephen R. Covey
• Genre/ Category: Efficiency & Effectiveness Through Habit Forming Behaviours
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25+ years. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators and parents— in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations.

• Book Title: Kaizen: The Japanese Method for Transforming Habits, One Small Step at a Time
• Author: Sarah Harvey
• Genre/ Category: Self Improvement
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

‘This beautiful, simple book suggests tiny changes we can make to improve all areas of life, from friendships to a cluttered flat.’ Marianne Power, author of Help Me!

A gorgeously illustrated introduction to the Japanese method of Kaizen – meaning ‘change’ ‘good’ – showing you how to make small, step-by-step changes to transform your life.

• Book Title: Your One Word: The Powerful Secret to Creating a Business and Life That Matter
• Author: Evan Carmichael
• Genre/ Category: Find Your One Word
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

In this bold and empowering guide, entrepreneur and social media sensation Evan Carmichael shares the secret to turbo-charging your path to success on your own terms. With thought-provoking questions and inspiring, instructive examples, Your One Word will help you nail down your personal mottos – the word that captures your purpose and passion. With this operating philosophy in hand, you will then learn how to leverage this powerful tool to create the business and future of your dreams.

• Book Title: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
• Author: John C. Maxwell
• Genre/ Category: Leadership
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

What would happen if a top expert with more than forty years of leadership experience was willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It could change your life. John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in the new 10th Anniversary Edition of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined the insights learned from his forty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered only as a communicator like Maxwell can.

• Book Title: The Neuropsychology of Self-Discipline: the Master Key to Success
• Author: Sybervision
• Genre/ Category: Efficiency & Effectiveness (Personal & Business)
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

The Secret Revealed. The Neuropsychology of Self-Discipline is a self-paced audio program that consists of 10 audio sessions and a digital study guide. It is based on research conducted by author Steve DeVore and Dr. Karl Pribram at the Stanford University Neuropsychological Research Laboratories. He studied over 100 of history’s greatest achievers (see The World’s 100 Greatest People Audio Collection) and identified the characteristics they had in common, From these characteristics he distilled a powerful formula for self-motivation— the secret of lasting success.

• Book Title: Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• Author: Travis Bradberry
• Genre/ Category: Emotional Intelligence
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

In today’s fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack. By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:

1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Management
3. Social Awareness
4. Relationship Management

• Book Title: The Think and Grow Rich Workbook: The Practical Steps to Transforming Your Desires into Riches
• Author: Napoleon Hill
• Genre/ Category: Self Improvement
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

For the millions of people who have read and loved Think and Grow Rich, here- for the first time-is a workbook and companion to the classic bestseller.

With its life-changing thirteen-step process, Think and Grow Rich has been a blueprint for countless many on their road to riches. Now, for the first time, readers and students of this powerful program will have this beautifully designed and user-friendly volume for use alongside the classic.

• Book Title: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Author: Carol S. Dweck
• Genre/ Category: Mindset
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with agrowth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

• Book Title: The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
• Author: David Deida
• Genre/ Category: Self Improvement
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Though much has changed in society since the first publication of The Way of the Superior Man, men of all ages still “tussle with the challenges of women, work, and sexual desire.” Including an all-new preface by author David Deida, this 20th-anniversary edition of the classic guide to male spirituality offers the next generation the opportunity to cultivate trust in the moment and put forth the best versions of themselves in an ever-changing world.

• Book Title: The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field
• Author: Nathaniel Branden
• Genre/ Category: Self-Esteem & Self-Confidence
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Nathaniel Branden’s book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already hailed in its hardcover edition as a classic and the most significant work on the topic. Immense in scope and vision and filled with insight into human motivation and behavior, The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem is essential reading for anyone with a personal or professional interest in self-esteem. The book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, personal happiness, and positive relationships. Branden introduces the six pillars-six action-based practices for daily living that provide the foundation for self-esteem-and explores the central importance of self-esteem in five areas: the workplace, parenting, education, psychotherapy, and the culture at large. The work provides concrete guidelines for teachers, parents, managers, and therapists who are responsible for developing the self-esteem of others. And it shows why-in today’s chaotic and competitive world-self-esteem is fundamental to our personal and professional power.

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

• Book Title: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
• Author: Gary Chapman
• Genre/ Category: Love & Value
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.

The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.

• Book Title: How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Author: Dale Carnegie
• Genre/ Category: Influence/ Emotional Intellegence/ Networking
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century!

Learn:

• Three fundamental techniques in handling people
• The six ways to make people like you
• The twelve ways to win people to you way of thinking
• The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment

• Book Title: Become A Key Person Of Influence
• Author: Daniel Priestley
• Genre/ Category: Influence
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

Every industry has Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation …for all the right reasons. They attract opportunities …the right sort. They earn more money… and it isn’t a struggle. Key People of Influence also have more fun. They get invited on trips away, people buy them dinner, they are treated with respect and others listen when they speak. You may think it takes years, or even decades, to become a Key Person of Influence – as this book shows, nothing could be further from the truth! Becoming a Key Person of Influence in your industry starts today!

• Book Title: Brilliant Body Language: Impress, Persuade and Succeed with the Power of Body Language
• Author: Max A. Eggert
• Genre/ Category: Body Language Awareness
• Average Rating: 3.5 Stars

Take your communication skills to a whole new level and understand what people really think and feel. What is said is often not what is meant, yet most of us don’t know how to ‘read between the lines’…

• Book Title: As a Man Thinketh
• Author: James Allen
• Genre/ Category: Mental Strength & Self-Improvement
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

First published a century ago, “As a Man Thinketh” presents the message of positive thinking as the key to improved health, purpose, achievement, ideals, and serenity.

• Book Title: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
• Author: Jonathan Haidt
• Genre/ Category: Happiness
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world’s philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims – like “do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” or “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”–can enrich and even transform our lives.

• Book Title: Man’s Search for Meaning
• Author: Viktor E. Frankl
• Genre/ Category: Finding Meaning
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl’s theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (“meaning”)-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

• Book Title: Man’s Search for Himself
• Author: Rollo May
• Genre/ Category: Sense of Value
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

“Analyzes life as we are living it, and the analysis is truthful and profound.”- New York Times

Loneliness, boredom, emptiness: These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man’s integration–a basic and inborn sense of value. Man’s Search for Himself is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on how to choose, judge, and act during such times.

• Book Title: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded): The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems
• Author: Daniel G. Amen M.D.
• Genre/ Category: Mindset
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective “brain prescriptions” that can help heal your brain and change your life. This book offers simple techniques which will help you to: Quell anxiety and panic; fight depression; boost memory; conquer impulsiveness and learn to focus; and stop obsessive worrying.

• Book Title: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
• Author: Spencer Johnson
• Genre/ Category: Dealing with Change
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 10 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT!
A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parabel to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.

It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze.
If the same old routines worked.
If they’d just stop moving “The Cheese.”
But things keep changing…

Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don’t have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude.

Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

• Book Title: Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement
• Author: Anthony Robbins
• Genre/ Category: Self Improvement
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

Anthony Robbins calls it the new science of personal achievement. You’ll call it the best thing that ever happened to you.

If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life. Anthony Robbins has proven to millions through his books, tapes, and seminars that by harnessing the power of the mind you can do, have, achieve, and create anything you want for your life. He has shown heads of state, royalty, Olympic and professional athletes, movie stars, and children how to achieve. With Unlimited Power, he passionately and eloquently reveals the science of personal achievement and teaches you…

• Book Title: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
• Author: Tony Robbins
• Genre/ Category: Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Power, and MONEY Master the Game, Anthony Robbins, the nation’s leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life.

• Book Title: MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
• Author: Tony Robbins
• Genre/ Category: Personal Finance
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

In his first book in two decades, Anthony Robbins turns to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure financial freedom for ourselves and for our families. “If there were a Pulitzer Prize for investment books, this one would win, hands down” (Forbes.com).

Tony Robbins is one of the most revered writers and thinkers of our time. People from all over the world—from the disadvantaged to the well-heeled, from twenty-somethings to retirees—credit him for giving them the inspiration and the tools for transforming their lives…

• Book Title: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
• Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Genre/ Category: Personal Finance
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, tells the story of Robert Kiyosaki and his two dads—his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad—and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.

• Book Title: The Millionaire Master Plan: Your Personalized Path to Financial Success
• Author: Roger James Hamilton
• Genre/ Category: Personal Growth & Wealth
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

The Millionaire Master Plan is a unique and fresh approach as to how individuals can not only get a sense of where they stand on the spectrum of personal wealth, but more importantly, how they can learn to ascend from their present state to a higher level.

Roger James Hamilton, himself a highly successful entrepreneur and successful investor, has designed nine steps – from barely surviving – all the way to the highest level of ultimate wealth for life – and he lays out his nine steps in an easy-to-understand color-coded manner that ranges from red (barely living paycheck-to-paycheck) all the way to ultra-violet (where generating income is simply no longer a worry).

Along the way, the reader first takes a quick test to determine where one is on the financial spectrum, and then Hamilton provides key insights and practical tips as to how one can progress to the next level. You track your progress by ascending from one color to the next.

• Book Title: Think Like an Engineer: Use systematic thinking to solve everyday challenges & unlock the inherent values in them
• Author: Mushtak Al-Atabi
• Genre/ Category: Engineers Processes: Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate (CDIO)
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

Engineers conceive, design, implement, and operate (CDIO). ‘Think Like an Engineer’ presents CDIO and systematic thinking as a way to achieve the human potential. It explores how we think, feel and learn, and uses the latest brain research findings to help us unlock value and have a balanced life. The practical, easy to follow exercises given in the book can be used by individuals to improve their thinking and learning and by educators to empower their students to thrive for success.

• Book Title: The Art of War
• Author: Sun Tzu
• Genre/ Category: Strategy, Physics, Politics and Psychology
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.

• Book Title: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
• Author: Steven Pressfield
• Genre/ Category: Motivation & Self Improvement
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul.

What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?

Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor—be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece?

• Book Title: Thinking Fast And Slow
• Author: Daniel Kahneman
• Genre/ Category: Thinking Process
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

• Book Title: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• Author: Gary Keller
• Genre/ Category: Extraordinary Results
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

The ONE Thing has made more than 350 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 Wall Street Journal, NewYork Times, and USA Today. It won 12 book awards, has been translated into 27 languages, chosen as one of the Top 5 Business Books of 2013 by Hudson’s Booksellers and one of Top 30 Business Books of 2013 by Executive Book Summaries.Voted one of Top 100 Business Books of All Time on Goodreads. People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Companies are helping their employees be more productive with study groups, training, and coaching. Sales teams are boosting sales. Churches are conducting classes and recommending for their members. By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening their finances, losing weight and getting in shape, deepening their faith, and nurturing stronger marriages and personal relationships.

• Book Title: Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
• Author: Shane Snow
• Genre/ Category: Efficiency & Effectiveness
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow (Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short time.

How do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months? How did Alexander the Great, YouTube tycoon Michelle Phan, and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon climb to the top in less time than it takes most of us to get a promotion? What do high-growth businesses, world-class heart surgeons, and underdog marketers do in common to beat the norm?

• Book Title: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
• Author: Jeff Olson, John David Mann
• Genre/ Category: Thinking/ Processing Information/ Happiness
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It’s not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you.

In this 8th anniversary edition you’ll read not only the life-changing concepts of the original book, but also learn what author Jeff Olson discovered as he continued along the slight edge path: the Secret to Happiness and the Ripple Effect.  This edition of The Slight Edge isn’t just the story, but also how the story continues to create life-altering dynamics–how a way of thinking, a way of processing information, can impact daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. The Slight Edge is “the key” that will make all the other how-to books and self-help information that you read, watch and hear actually work.

• Book Title: Outliers: The Story of Success
• Author: Malcolm Gladwell
• Genre/ Category: Higher Achievement
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

• Book Title: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Author: Malcolm Gladwell
• Genre/ Category: Ideas/ Trends/ Social Behavior
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

• Book Title: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
• Author: Timothy Ferriss
• Genre/ Category: World-Class Performance
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.

“For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview. This unusual depth has helped make The Tim Ferriss Show the first business/interview podcast to pass 100 million downloads.

• Book Title: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
• Author: Nicholas Carr
• Genre/ Category: Technology
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

Is Google making us stupid? ”When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?

Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”―from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer―Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.

• Book Title: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker
• Author: Thomas A. Lisk Ph.D.
• Genre/ Category: Professional & Public Speaking
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

In this guide, readers will find indispensable information on how to pursue public speaking as a full- or part-time career. Written by a 30-year veteran public speaker and bureau chief, this book shares details, advice, and insider tips on how to prosper in this highly competitive and lucrative field.

• Expert author in a rapidly growing field
• Contains inside tips on every aspect of speaking professionally
• Clear and practical information about how to set up a professional speaker’s business and promote it
• Suggestions for extra goods and services for additional revenue
• Features event planning and organizing strategies and instructive anecdotes from the field

• Book Title: On Writing
• Author: Stephen King
• Genre/ Category: Guide to Writing
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it—fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

• Book Title: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
• Author: William Zinsser
• Genre/ Category: Guide to Writing Nonfiction
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.

Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental principles as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.

• Book Title: Bird By Bird
• Author: Anne Lamott
• Genre/ Category: Writing & Life
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

• Book Title: Author 101 Bestselling Book Publicity: The Insider’s Guide to Promoting Your Book and Yourself
• Author: Rick Frishman, Robyn Freedman Spizman, Mark Steisel
• Genre/ Category: Personal Branding
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

From the marketing genius of Rick Frishman and the publishing acumen of Robyn Freedman Spizman comes the next book in the most comprehensive writing reference set on the market. These masters of promotion and publicity take readers behind the scenes, showing them how to work with publishers and agents to market their books the best way possible…

• Book Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Author: Benjamin Franklin
• Genre/ Category: Autobiography
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the unfinished record of Benjamin Franklin’s life written by Franklin himself and is one of the most influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin’s account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them.

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