Personal Development & Self-Help.

153 books · 31 Hero Books

Hero Books in Personal Development & Self-Help

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How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

Derek Sivers

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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

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Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

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Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Finding Me

Viola Davis

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Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together

Neil Pasricha

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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Tiago Forte

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The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything

Neil Pasricha

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Dare to Lead

Brené Brown

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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

Maria Konnikova

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Sell with Authority: Own and Monetize Your Agency's Authority Position

Drew McLellan

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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Eckhart Tolle

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The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

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The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

Mel Robbins

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The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential

Wim Hof

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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

Seth Godin

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Think and Grow Rich - Original Edition

Napoleon Hill

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Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

Jay Shetty

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Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex

Aubrey Marcus

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I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

Kevin Hart

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The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson

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The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

Darren Hardy

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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Brian Tracy

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Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

Jim Kwik

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

Chase Jarvis

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The Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Reid Hoffman

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Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

Diane Hamilton

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Curveball: How I Discovered True Fulfillment After Chasing Fortune and Fame

Barry Zito

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How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know

Byron Sharp

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi

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... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager

Viktor E. Frankl

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

Daniel H. Pink

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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

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And Never Stop Dancing: Thirty More True Things You Need to Know Now

Gordon Livingston MD

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Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential

Brian Johnson

Becoming

Michelle Obama

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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

Krista Tippett

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Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

Jamie Kern Lima

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Suleika Jaouad

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Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact

Jenn Lim

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

Sean B. Carroll

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Built to Serve: Find Your Purpose and Become the Leader You Were Born to Be

Evan Carmichael

Conscious Capitalism

Rajendra Sisodia

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Cosmic Banditos

Allan C. Weisbecker

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Creative Quest

Ahmir Thompson

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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Tony Hsieh

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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Paul Hawken

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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

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Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

Simon Sinek

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

Graham Hancock

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Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order―and What We Can Do About It – The Psychology of Trust and Moral Agency

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Kevin D. Mitnick

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Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Jessie Inchauspé

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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

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Greek Lives

Plutarch

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How to Be Interesting: In 10 Simple Steps

Jessica Hagy

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How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

Nicole LePera

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Sarah Bakewell

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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Leil Lowndes

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter

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Lateral Thinking

Edward de Bono

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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

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Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything

Ulrich Boser

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

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Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon

Rahul Jandial

Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side

Howard Marks

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

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My Personal Best : Life Lessons from an All-American Journey

John Wooden

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

Kate Bowler

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No Logo

Naomi Klein

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Normal People

Sally Rooney

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Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived – An Unflinching Story of Cancer, Courage, and Faith

Laurence Shames

On Confidence

The School of Life

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

Robert Maurer

Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative

Ken Robinson

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Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

Brad Stulberg

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Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

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Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

Maxwell Maltz

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Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success (The Scott Adams Success Series)

Scott Adams

Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

Jia Jiang

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Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution

Brené Brown

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Risk Savvy

Gerd Gigerenzer

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Scaling Conversations: How Leaders Access the Full Potential of People

Dave MacLeod

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

Nedra Glover Tawwab

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Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential

Greg Crabtree

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

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Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide

Alex Reinhart

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StoryBranding 2.0: Creating Stand-Out Brands Through the Purpose of Story

Jim Signorelli

Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

Norm Brodsky

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Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert

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Succeeding: How to Choose the Right Goals and Increase Your Chances of Achieving Them

John T. Reed

Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys

Kate Fletcher

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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

Chris Guillebeau

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The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

John C. Maxwell

The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

Scott Galloway

The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning

Steven Pressfield

The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989

Frederick Taylor

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The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

Gay Hendricks

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The Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

Steve Peters

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know

Katty Kay

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The Confidence Gap

Russ Harris

The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking

Mikael Krogerus

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The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

Brock L. Eide

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Miguel Ruiz

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The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

Dan Sullivan

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Shawn Achor

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The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit

Mel Robbins

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The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage

Kelly McGonigal

The Let Them Theory

Mel Robbins

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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Julie Zhuo

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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Tim Wu

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The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate

Fran Hauser

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The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes

William Ury

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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

Jim Loehr

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Joseph Murphy

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The Practicing Stoic

Ward Farnsworth

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The Second Mountain

David Brooks

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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

James Dale Davidson

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The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Stephen M.R. Covey

The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Paul Bloom

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal

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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Alan W. Watts

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Think Like a Freak

Steven D. Levitt

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This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

Yancey Strickler

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This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

B.J. Fogg

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Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

Scott Barry Kaufman

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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

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Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World

Olga Khazan

What Do You Do With an Idea?

Kobi Yamada

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What You Are Made For: Your Guide to Finding Purpose

Dave Boden

What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

Tim Urban

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Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It

Jenny Wood

Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization

John Wooden

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You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Jen Sincero

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