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Non-Fiction Books 📚
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Books on self development, fashion, business, and some memoirs 📖
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Personal Development
 
Interest based
 
For Creators

Personal Development

These books are listed in the order I think you'll benefit most from. Bonne Chance 🍀
 
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Book 1: Your abilities are not fixed. Here's how we know.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Book 2: This is important to get to the good stuff.
How To Do The Work
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Book 3: This will help you implement practices from book 2.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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Book 4: You have the foundations to start learning and building skills, so heres how you'll do it.
Make it Stick: The Art of Successful Learning
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Book 5: Learn to manage your money for a life worth living
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
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Book 6: Great work life balance and leadership tips framed to help you help your community and find meaning without burning out.
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
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Interest based

Books I found really interesting, just for interestings sake

 
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Very interesting philosophical read on clothing, touching on fetish, worship, mortality, family, and more
Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
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All about what makes something a cult and what attracts people to them, such as language and ritual.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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Learn about introversion (and extraversion by association). When it starts showing, what it means, pros and cons, etc.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts
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Compellingly told story of various fabrics and the history of the apparel industry as whole.
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
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Paris' story is incredible, she tells it well, and I found it highly relatable.
Paris: The Memoir
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A classic and great summer read IMO.
Walden
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You may have noticed I'm into fashion reads. This is more of a socio-political history of fashion. I enjoyed it.
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
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This one is fiction, oops.
Quick story exploring personal power, limiting beliefs, manifestation, and godliness.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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For Creators

Books to help you kick *** and feel satisfied in your creative business

 
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It can be easy to nit pick or push things off as a creative, this is a firm reminder not to.
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work - Books
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More reminders to ship your minimum viable product, and practical advice for making it better.
The Lean Startup
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Obviously negotiation is a necessary skill. This is a fantastic handbook for it.
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If...
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We're running businesses and we need to understand business to do so.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
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Hear about the creative process through stories of Pixar. Fun and compelling read for some solid creative bussiness skills.
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming Unseen Forces
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A very short read and well worth it for pushing through.
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative
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