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Ask HN: which are some good self-help books?

7 pointsby beerglassabout 12 years ago

10 comments

pkhamreabout 12 years ago
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/1400069289" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/1400...</a><p>How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671035975/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671...</a><p>How to Win Friends &#38; Influence People - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...</a>
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ianoxabout 12 years ago
The Now Habit - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination-Guilt-free/dp/1585425524/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination...</a><p>Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/0596007795/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/059...</a><p>Mind Performance Hacks: Tips &#38; Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclocking/dp/0596101538/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclo...</a>
ThinkADRIANabout 12 years ago
10 Key Principles that are common to over 100 of the most famous Personal Development books... Brian Johnson discovered these Concepts for Optimal Living and wrote a book about it:<p>A Philosopher's Notes: On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness, Vol. 1<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Notes-Creating-Authentically-Goodness/dp/0983059101" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Notes-Creating-Authentica...</a><p>This is the best Personal Development Book I ever read.
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expralitemonkabout 12 years ago
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148</a><p>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680</a> He wasn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but he was Emperor of Rome. ;)<p>Walden <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205</a><p>Most of the big problems in life have already been pondered eons ago.
o4tunaabout 12 years ago
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne<p>The Power of TED (The Empowerment Dynamic) by David Emerald<p>Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie<p>Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior by Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg<p>Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns<p>Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if you Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith<p>The New Manual 2.0 by Tripp Lanier thenewmanual.com
alexhjonesabout 12 years ago
Getting Things Done <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done</a><p>The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effe...</a><p>Starting Strength <a href="http://startingstrength.com/" rel="nofollow">http://startingstrength.com/</a><p>(controversial :-P) The Paleo solution <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/...</a>
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gary__about 12 years ago
Your Brain at Work <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distraction/dp/0061771295" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distracti...</a><p>It uses the short stories from the work days of a senior manager and software consultancy owner to explain how and why the brain reacts the way it does in challenging situations and gives advice on how best to mitigate its limitations.
AlexOrtiz201about 12 years ago
The best one ever -&#62; Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
mrlithicabout 12 years ago
Rework - <a href="http://37signals.com/rework/" rel="nofollow">http://37signals.com/rework/</a>
faraboveabout 12 years ago
Think And Grow Rich