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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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Include books by the same authorBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert · 288 pages
Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity, offering insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need i
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon · 160 pages
When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age: 'Steal like an artist; Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things; Write the book you want to read; Use your hands; Side projects are important; Do good work and put it where people can see
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron · 238 pages
The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller · 255 pages
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Anthony Robbins, Tony Robbins · 539 pages
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 314 pages
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state called *flow*. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can b
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Gretchen Rubin · 317 pages
The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success
Eric Jorgenson · 371 pages
Mastery
Robert Greene · 336 pages
Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
Robin S. Sharma · 216 pages
Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk of life live with far greater success, happiness and meaning in these times of dramatic uncertainty. The Monk Who Sold H
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
John Eldredge · 256 pages
The Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose, and Getting Over Life's Little Imperfections
Lucy Danziger · 292 pages
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport · 304 pages
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover th
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
Caroline Myss · 430 pages
Introduces a program for self-discovery and divine connection that helps readers determine their higher purpose in life, a process that promotes emotional well-being, healthier relationships, and spiritual rebirth.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey · 384 pages
*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom · 192 pages
Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Best-Sellers List for 23 combined weeks in 2000, and remained on the New York Times best-selling list for more than four years after. In 2006, Tuesdays with Morrie was
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo · 208 pages
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your house once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, no
Warrior of the Light
Paulo Coelho · 160 pages
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
J.K. Rowling · 69 pages
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world f
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle · 216 pages
Eckhart Tolle has emerged as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, already a worldwide bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation the
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson · 224 pages
In this book, blogger and former internet entrepreneur Mark Manson explains in simple, no expletives barred terms how to achieve happiness by caring more about fewer things and not caring at all about more. He explains how the metrics we use to define ourselves may be the very things holding us back. By redefining our metrics, questioning ourselves and doubting everything, we may be able to
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch · 251 pages
Author Neale Donald Walsch has had an actual Conversation with God. Whether or not you believe this is irrelevant - the book contains answers that only a God could give - answers on religion, sex, humanity, and even politics. Anything you ever wanted to know "what God Thinks" about a subject, is in here. It is a thought-provoking essay and one of the best books i've ever read.