Best self-help books.
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Connor Fisher
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Landon Sanchez
Pic related is a great book- from the guy that did the original 10,000 hour expert performer study. He explains how Malcolm Gladwell misinterpreted his study.
It's like The Tipping Point but not for retards.
Nicholas Hernandez
I love self help books from the 19th century. This is one of my favourites. Every page has a few quotable passages, I've rarely highlighted a book as much as this.
It's all about persistence and self discipline, the importance of being able to execute on a plan.
Anyone who says "oh I'm smart but lazy" needs to read this book.
>"One talent with a will behind it will accomplish more than ten without it, as a thimbleful of powder in a rifle, the bore of whose barrel will give it direction, will do greater execution than a carload burned in the open air."
Andrew Hernandez
>"He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to become greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off gives up; the stationary is the beginning of the end--it precedes death; to live is to achieve, to will without ceasing."
>"It is," says Professor Mathews, "only by continued, strenuous efforts, repeated again and again, day after day, week after week, and month after month, that the ability can be acquired to fasten the mind to one subject, however abstract or knotty, to the exclusion of everything else. The process of obtaining this self-mastery--this complete command of one's mental powers--is a gradual one, its length varying with the mental constitution of each person; but its acquisition is worth infinitely more than the utmost labor it ever costs." "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education," it was said by Professor Huxley, "is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson which ought to be learned, and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he learns thoroughly."
Jacob Jenkins
This looks great. Any more old self-help books?
Gavin Ramirez
The New Psychology by William Walker Atkinson is my favorite. Using psychology to improve oneself is something we just start to consider in the mainstream with positive psychology.
Leo Sullivan
as a man thinketh
the self-help meme trilogy, meditations/letters to a stoic/tao te ching
i like listening to eckhart tolle talks on youtube
medard boss, psychoanalysis & daseinsanalysis
Mason Miller
The Courtier
Galateo
those are Renaissance etiquette books
Levi Lewis
I love William Walker Atkinson. My favorite two things he wrote is The Power Of Concentration under the pen name Theron Q. Dumont, and of course The Kybalion, which is /x/'s favorite book.
Absolutely great. I also recommend a more obscure book he wrote that deserves to be way more popular, "From Poverty To Power." In it he explains a technique for morning meditation - in 1901!
Meditations is great, I never read the other two.
Eckhart Tolle I wanna like but I don't really get it. It's kind of Oprah New Agey.
Nathan Wilson
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