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The Best Powerful Books That Might Change Your Life
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items I've read over hundred's nonfiction books in my life, and these 29 are the most powerful of them all. I can honestly say they changed my life, who’s to say they won’t change yours too?
That may be true for some, but whether or not stress is actually bad for us depends on what exactly is stressing us.
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good
This might be the most practical book ever written on simple behavioral change.
Atomic Habits: Easy Way to Build & Break Habits
People who believe they’re capable of doing something are far more likely to do it.
The Expectation Effect: How Mindset Changes World
We don’t do great work at things we love, we tend to love things that we become very good at.
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Skills Trump Passion
The Innovator’s Dilemma shows up not only in business, but also in life.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Tech Disrupt
It’s a must-read for anyone interested in psychology, but especially, if you’re in sales and marketing.
Influence: Psychology of Persuasion, Revised
This is the book that changed a whole generation of entrepreneurs.
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5 & Live
If you feel like your dopamine levels are through the fucking roof, then this book is probably useful.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance by Dr. Lembke
That gives us a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives is an attempt to create something that will outlive us when we die.
The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker: Books
The Paradox of Choice tells us that when offered more options, we tend to be less satisfied with whatever we choose.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
This is a simple book that sums up the most fundamental difference in mindset between people who get rich and people who stay poor.
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That ...
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Paperback
A self-help classic that teaches the completely counterintuitive truth that when you focus on other people, shocking, they will like you more.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Paperback
Start With Why makes a simple but important point: when choosing what to pursue, start by asking why.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire
Are people mentally weaker than they used to be? Have we become more emotionally fragile? Try this book
The Coddling of the American Mind: Good Intentions & Bad Ideas
They make mistakes, they have their own issues and quirks—these then imprint themselves on our brains as our love map.
Getting the Love You Want: Guide for Couples
It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to get rich and or die trying.
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons
If you’re reading this, it’s very likely you’re gonna die of one of four things: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, or diabetes.
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
This is my personal favorite book about happiness, and trust me, I’ve read pretty much every book on happiness.
Stumbling on Happiness: Gilbert, Daniel
Professional poker player Annie Duke utilizes her background in poker as a way to teach effective decision-making.
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions
Dweck is a psychologist at Stanford, and she found that people who believe they can change and get better are the ones who tend to change and get better.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
If you are one of the many Westerners who is curious about Buddhism, this is an excellent starting point to begin your practice.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Talks on Zen
It’s a fascinating read from start to finish. It absolutely changed my view of the world.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Declined
This book shows you that nothing is really secular, and all commitments are ultimately religious to some degree or another.
Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics)
Some work can survive distraction and task-switching, but some work, particularly creative work or really hard problem-solving, is greatly harmed by both.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success
The self-help classic from twenty years ago, The Power of Now argues that most of our suffering occurs because we are fixated on the past or worrying about imaginary futures.
The Power of Now: Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
There’s a persistent idea throughout history that people are born perfect and innocent, and that any dysfunction they exhibit later in life is caused by some sort of trauma or injustice.
The Blank Slate: Modern Denial of Human Nature
The book is full of amusing anecdotes and stories, both fictional and real, of people who were fooled by randomness and managed to convince themselves they knew what they were doing in a completely chaotic and fucked up world.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance
This book, he uncovers a number of counterintuitive findings.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work