5 (+1) Unexpected Personal Development Books
The +1 Will Help You Practice Taking Your Time
If you are an avid reader of personal development books, the titles in this list of books might be rather unexpected.
But a book doesn't have to be labeled as self improvement book in order to deliver the best advice on how to tackle the challenges in your life, right?
As pesonal development is such a wide subject, when selecting the books in this list we focused on a very narrow subject.
TIME. How we use it, abuse it, and what happens when we feel we don't have enough of it, how our reasoning is impacted (hint: Daniel Kahneman says it's negatively impacted beyond your wildest imagination. And he proves it. He must be right. He's not a Nobel Prize for nothing.)
So the books in this list will show you WHY you need to slow down, WHAT you can do about it, and some practical advice on HOW to do it.
And the last one book in our short self development book list, the +1, has been selected for you to practice how it feels when you're taking your time and enjoying the moment.
5 (+1) Books to Help You Grow
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
by Yuval Noah Harari
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
by Daniel Kahneman
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics takes us on a tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think: System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
by Daniel J. Levitin
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before.
by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution.
And the +1
by Jonas Jonasson
A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over . . .
They might not be the best self improvement books ever written (and for the majority of them, that's ok, as it wasn't the initial intention), but they will surely make you stop an think. And if you start questioning your assumptions, it means we reached our objective.
What would you add to the list? What was the one book that left a lasting mark on you, on the way you see the world?
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