Best books for personal growth

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The best way to "pump" yourself (to become smarter, more creative and more successful) is to read books. Which?

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By John Eyckaff

The book is about how to paint your gray life in bright colors. It’s the easiest thing to be like everyone else. Being an extraordinary person is an act that deserves respect. No matter how old you are, whatever your social status, it all comes down to one simple truth: you need to start. After reading this book, you really want to take action, start changing yourself and your life. And when to start a new life, if not on New Year's?

This year I ...
By M. J. Ryan

The book is about how to change habits, keep your word or do what you have long dreamed of. Usually, such promises in life are given to themselves on New Year's Eve, and after the holiday they are safely “forgotten”. The book contains the author's knowledge in the field of psychology, neurophysiology and philosophy, which resulted in practical recommendations on how to implement the promises made to oneself by the chimes.

Get out of your comfort zone
By Brian Tracy

The book is about how to properly allocate time and achieve solutions to complex problems, leaving your comfort zone. It contains 21 practical tips that you can follow to become as successful as an author. Brian Tracy is a millionaire who dropped out of school in his youth and started his way up practically from scratch. This book is a capacious and super-useful collection of secrets of personal effectiveness by Brian Tracy. It has been translated into 40 languages and has a circulation of over 1,200,000 copies.

How people think
Author: Dmitry Chernyshev

The book is about the essence of thinking. People often think automatically, while any act of thinking is creativity. The book will help you look at everyday things with a fresh perspective. This is the author's project of Dmitry Chernyshev, who even invented his own "thinking alphabet" designed to help train the most important human talent - the ability to think.

My own MBA
By Josh Kaufman

A book about self-study and self-belief. They are more important than "crusts". The idea of the book is that it is not worth spending money on studying at a business school. It is cheaper and more effective to engage in self-education, especially in the age of information technology it is easy. The book contains dozens of maxims that teach completely new business thinking. Josh Kaufman's advice is really inspiring. The book can replace MBA education in many ways.

Strength of will
By Kelly McGonigal

The book is about how to become a spiritually strong person, resist temptations and stop putting things on the back burner. The book wins over with its absolute scientific character. All advice is backed up by numerous psychological and medical research. That is why the book is useful not only for those who need to strengthen willpower, but also for simply curious people - everyone will learn a lot of interesting things for themselves.

The art of explaining
By Lee LeFever

The book is about how to make everyone understand you perfectly. After all, when you are understood - this is happiness, and in business - also money. According to the author, there are no people who are unable to understand, there are those who cannot explain. The book will help you always, in any situation, find the right words. Thanks to this, complete mutual understanding and harmony will reign in your personal and professional relationships.

Life at full power
By Jim Loer and Tony Schwartz

The book is about energy management, how to balance different types of energies in life - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Its authors are famous athletes who advise to treat life not as a marathon, but as a series of sprint distances - periods of activity with full dedication, alternating with episodes of good rest and recuperation. This book, in addition to us, is recommended for reading by the chief editor of the MYTH Mikhail Ivanov and businessman Oleg Tinkov (by the way, he is on the cover).

 

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A selection of five books that will make you see the world differently
What to do with long days of self-isolation, when you are already resting and you want to do something useful for yourself? Of course, you need to read and read what will benefit you. Needless to say, books have changed the lives of thousands of people. And if they did not, then, we are sure, they broadened their horizons. However, reading is also quite good for the sake of relaxation. Today we will be recommending books that, in our opinion, showed their history from perspectives that we usually do not pay attention to.

1. Aleph and Other Tales by Jorge Luis Borges
Magic realism arose largely thanks to Borges, and his books are reference in this regard. The writer himself loves to delve into history and myths, thereby adding a touch of noble dust to his works. However, the plots may be different, but they are united by one thing, namely the search. What are Borges's heroes looking for? The answer is not easy, because each destiny has its own path. For example, one of the heroes is looking for the meaning of life, another is looking for the word of God, and the third is looking for an opportunity for revenge. In any case, some stories are very simply transferred to the reader's own life, which makes Borges a very life writer, who, of course, rarely answers questions, but can push us to answer ourselves.

2. "The Killer Inside Me" by Jim Thompson
I never liked to read detective stories, but after that I decided to give it a try, starting with "The Murderer Within Me". The idea of the genre immediately turned 180 degrees, because the book was written from completely different positions than any other detective story. Here we see the detective on the contrary, and the main character is not a good guy at all, who wants to solve the crime, the main character is the criminal himself. Jim Thompson approached the matter with professional cruelty, bringing down on our heads a heap of poisonous thoughts of a murderer, who is difficult to condole and sympathize with, but has to do it. In addition, we are witnessing the sluggish life of the town, where a lot of money gradually came. The topic is quite interesting, and not many people describe it. We read if we want to be “on the other side” and understand

3. Traveling with Charlie in Search of America by John Steinbeck
And this is a good-natured and pleasant book that sets you up for the positive. You need to read, especially if you want to understand what America breathed some 60-70 years ago. And this is important because the States are not only Hollywood and New York, the States are also ordinary people, farmers, sawmill workers, waitresses in roadside cafes, a good bottle of wine drunk by a kind company in a trailer park. John Steinbeck, despite his age, decided on a long journey, which he carefully described and described well. Of course, traveling alone is somehow not very cool, so he took his faithful friend - a dog named Charlie. We read and wonder how much we can find in common on these pages and how many differences.

4 "Fairy Dreams", Stephen King
And King can still show the whole world that he has not gone crazy and has not fallen into senile insanity. This collection of stories was released in 2015 and contains 20 creations of the master. Of course, you can not like Stephen's popular writing just because it is popular. But it is hard not to notice that the plots of this writer are extremely close to the ordinary life of people, and they can really hit the quick just because it is easy to imagine what is written and invented in reality. To recommend you specifically? Read, for example, the story "Obituaries" and the story "This bus is another world", although other things are also cool.

5. Morel's Invention, Bioy Casares
Well, let's add the creation of another Latin American writer, because Borges himself advises this book and advises for a reason. The novel "Morel's Invention" is written in the spirit of the stories about Robinson Crusoe. But adventures on a desert island, lost somewhere in Oceania, the protagonist has a different kind. The boy does not personify strength, rather, he reminds us of an antelope driven by lions. And the conclusions can be drawn very different. A person in fact often deprives himself of a good life only because of his stupidity and because of his fear, which has no basis under it. A useful book that you should definitely transfer to your own experience.