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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 — 844,116 ratings — published 1989
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 617,064 ratings — published 2011
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 199,035 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 — 1,423,445 ratings — published 2018
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 395,471 ratings — published 1937
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 890,872 ratings — published 2008
The 4-Hour Workweek (ebook)
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avg rating 3.90 — 343,278 ratings — published 2007
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,194,827 ratings — published 1936
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 474,806 ratings — published 1997
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 282,019 ratings — published 2009
Ego Is the Enemy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 92,638 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 238,682 ratings — published 2017
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 136,876 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 — 1,489,011 ratings — published 2016
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 170,543 ratings — published 2001
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 75,975 ratings — published 2012
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 122,986 ratings — published 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 277,761 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 4.08 — 762,283 ratings — published 1997
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 182,653 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 577,282 ratings — published 2012
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 51,358 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 — 52,490 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,329,809 ratings — published 2011
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 244,907 ratings — published 1999
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 141,169 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 — 206,918 ratings — published 2018
The Richest Man in Babylon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 253,845 ratings — published 1926
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 19,457 ratings — published 2019
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 25,570 ratings — published 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 23,862 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 — 38,268 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 939,187 ratings — published 1946
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 125,021 ratings — published 2007
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 550,905 ratings — published 1997
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 184,500 ratings — published 1984
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 140,351 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 — 52,197 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 — 161,839 ratings — published 2013
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 83,914 ratings — published 2019
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 868,012 ratings — published 2000
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 382,568 ratings — published 180
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 30,835 ratings — published 2011
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 59,831 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 — 485,789 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 — 118,045 ratings — published 1944
The War of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 124,011 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 — 47,402 ratings — published 1998
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 227,501 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 — 65,671 ratings — published 2009
“Today he'll talk about Hardy's elegies. "But what are they about?", his students will ask. They want the love story. How he hates this question, understanding, now, in the shade of his office, that poetry is among the few things that can survive this question. If the poem is very good it is very hard to say what it is about. It is this and it is not that. It seems like one thing and then, after a while, not so much, one's understanding always shifting with the images and the sounds. He'll add something on Tennyson, perhaps, something on rhyme. Something about that very question, about poems being on of the few things that cannot be summarized or that can survive such an evil with something left over, something else. Something remaining. A trouble. A pleasure. A little extra.”
― The Other Side of the World
― The Other Side of the World
“Summarizing is when you take a story that is complicated and interesting, then stick it in a microwave until it shrivels up into a tiny piece of black crunchy tarlike stuff. A wise man once said, "Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.”
― Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
― Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
