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Books that Actually Helped Me with Self Improvement
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Non-Fiction
Fiction - Yes, these books did help, here's why
Non-Fiction
A mix of improving your mindset/psychology and topic-specific how-to's.
While I knew most of these strategies, how and when to apply it based on what rung of the ladder I am and how to view wealth vs. income was very helpful in reforming my mindset about money and my career. US-centric.
The Wealth Ladder: Strategies for Every Step
Every problem is a interpersonal one because we are a society that depends on working together on some level all the time. Whatever you're having an issue with can always be traced back to a person/people. This is part 1 of a two book series and here...
The Courage to Be Disliked: Japanese Phenomenon
My favorite chapter is ‘What if this were easy?’. I learned that I don't need to be motivated to take meaningful action. And meaningful action doesn't have to be difficult to do. Anytime I'm scared of doing something, I ask myself: “Well, what if it ...
Meditations for Mortals: Embrace Limitations
This was so pivotal in my foray back into digital writing. It taught me a really simple structure to build an audience and to write every single day and also acknowledging what being a writer is. I highly recommend anyone not knowing where to start w...
The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
If you felt that there were some unaddressed gaps in the first book or have questions, this book might help you answer what wasn't addressed in the first one. I learned that clearly seeing reality is the basis of actual growth. If you have a false pe...
The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment
Sometimes I get so lost in being strategic about growing my content that I am blind to the simple joys of being able to create. This book reminded me of them; a philosophy to live by.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The opposite of fake it until you make it. Instead, it's a find the part of you that makes you feel good and confident and hold on to that person whenever you need it most, and here's how to discover that and do it.
The Alter Ego Effect: Power of Secret Identities
Satya claims the midlife crisis is a quarterlife crisis handled too late. Quarterlife felt like it touched upon the exact problem I was facing my whole….well, quarterlife. I learned that I am a Meaning type person; that I naturally start from the phi...
Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
Fiction - Yes, these books did help, here's why
I'll tell you right away what advice I learned to apply. You can read these books to get the full context.
Positive thinking isn't hoping and wishing something will be good before the result, it's accepting that whatever the result is, it's all going to work out eventually. Luck isn't random. Only the timing of it is. Every time something doesn't go your ...
The Lucky Ride: A Novel Full of Opportunity
One story in here helped me reorient how I saw my office job. It's nothing new and a lot of self-help books about hustling and side-gigs have said their piece on this already. But thanks to being an ASMR YouTuber and Digital Writer, my office job is ...
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Never thought the questions and problems a fictional bookshop owner would reflect my own creative and life journey at the time. Yeon-ju grapples with expectations that are haunting her even though she made a choice to honor herself. Through her and t...
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