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Ask HN: which are some good self-help books?
- pkhamre 14y agoThe Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/1400069289 http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/1400... How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671035975/ http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671... How to Win Friends & Influence People - http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034/ http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...
- csalvato 14y agoHow to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a life changing book. If I never read it, I probably would have jumped off a bridge with all the stress of product launches and public failures that are inevitable as an entrepreneur.
- blufox 14y agoI am currently reading The Power of Habit. Great book indeed.
- mrlithic 14y agoRework - http://37signals.com/rework/ http://37signals.com/rework/
- alexhjones 14y agoGetting Things Done http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effe... Starting Strength http://startingstrength.com/ http://startingstrength.com/ (controversial :-P) The Paleo solution http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844 http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/...
- blufox 14y ago+1 for The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- geldedus 14y agoSeven Habits... outdated advice
- alexhjones 14y agoWhat would you say has superceded it?
- expralitemonk 14y agoThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680 He wasn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but he was Emperor of Rome. ;) Walden http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205 Most of the big problems in life have already been pondered eons ago.
- gary__ 14y agoYour Brain at Work http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distraction/dp/0061771295 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distracti... It uses the short stories from the work days of a senior manager and software consultancy owner to explain how and why the brain reacts the way it does in challenging situations and gives advice on how best to mitigate its limitations.
- farabove 14y agoThink And Grow Rich
- AlexOrtiz201 14y agoThe best one ever -> Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- o4tuna 14y agoHow I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne The Power of TED (The Empowerment Dynamic) by David Emerald Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior by Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if you Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith The New Manual 2.0 by Tripp Lanier thenewmanual.com
- ianox 14y agoThe Now Habit - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination-Guilt-free/dp/1585425524/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination... Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/0596007795/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/059... Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclocking/dp/0596101538/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclo...
- ThinkADRIAN 14y ago10 Key Principles that are common to over 100 of the most famous Personal Development books... Brian Johnson discovered these Concepts for Optimal Living and wrote a book about it: A Philosopher's Notes: On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness, Vol. 1 http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Notes-Creating-Authentically-Goodness/dp/0983059101 http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Notes-Creating-Authentica... This is the best Personal Development Book I ever read.
- ThinkADRIAN 14y agoHere is a preview of the 10 Principles: http://www.entheos.com/optimal-living-101/principles http://www.entheos.com/optimal-living-101/principles