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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 839,731 ratings — published 1989
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 611,367 ratings — published 2011
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 197,293 ratings — published 2016
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,400,345 ratings — published 2018
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 392,944 ratings — published 1937
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
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avg rating 3.90 — 341,364 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 886,256 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 470,288 ratings — published 1997
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 279,381 ratings — published 2009
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,185,653 ratings — published 1936
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 181,469 ratings — published 2006
Ego Is the Enemy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 91,907 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 236,475 ratings — published 2017
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 135,883 ratings — published 2011
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,474,195 ratings — published 2016
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 170,083 ratings — published 2001
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 75,593 ratings — published 2012
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 121,934 ratings — published 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 276,010 ratings — published 2018
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 755,078 ratings — published 1997
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 574,492 ratings — published 2012
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 50,944 ratings — published 2012
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 52,332 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,316,041 ratings — published 2011
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 241,177 ratings — published 1999
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 138,413 ratings — published 2021
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 205,912 ratings — published 2018
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 251,645 ratings — published 1926
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 19,356 ratings — published 2019
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 25,432 ratings — published 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 23,590 ratings — published 2014
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 38,208 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 927,325 ratings — published 1946
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 124,395 ratings — published 2007
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 544,939 ratings — published 1997
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 182,984 ratings — published 1984
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 139,289 ratings — published 1995
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 51,819 ratings — published 2012
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 157,559 ratings — published 2013
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 83,129 ratings — published 2019
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 865,569 ratings — published 2000
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 375,713 ratings — published 180
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 30,706 ratings — published 2011
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 59,424 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 483,835 ratings — published 2012
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 117,639 ratings — published 1944
The War of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122,898 ratings — published 2002
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 47,063 ratings — published 1998
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 224,443 ratings — published 2016
I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 65,189 ratings — published 2009
“I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.”
― Widow's Web
― Widow's Web
“We may take pride in believing ‘we matter’, whereas if we try ‘summarising life’, it may get ‘contained’ in a few sentences.”
― The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
― The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
