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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBraving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Brene Brown · 194 pages
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen · 250 pages
From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought readers "Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations" provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. This edition includes a new chapter.
Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy
Chris Duffy · 272 pages
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg · 222 pages
An enlighting look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace. Guidance is provided on identifying and articulating feelings and needs, expressing anger fully, and exploring the power of empath
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
Susan David · 288 pages
"The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives in their relationships, and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates tho
How Full Is Your Bucket?
Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton · 128 pages
In an inspirational handbook, the discoveries of Donald O. Clifton, the grandfather of positive psychology, show how the briefest interactions affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity.
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
Vanessa Van Edwards · 320 pages
"Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date, or your mother-in-law? You need to know how people work. As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive our behavior patterns in her lab--and she's cracked the code. In Captivate she shares
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
Rick Hanson · 304 pages
The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self
Alex Lickerman · 278 pages
Legions of self-help authors rightly urge personal development as the key to happiness, but they typically fail to focus on its most important objective: hardiness. Though that which doesn't kill us can make us stronger, as Nietzsche tells us, few authors today offer any insight into just how to springboard from adversity to strength.
Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope
Mark Manson · 288 pages
We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to techn
The Courage To Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Read by Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm and January LaVoy. 6 hours, 28 minutes unabridged.
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer · 253 pages
El estado de salud es un estado natural, y los medios para lograrlo están dentro de las posibilidades de cada uno. ¿Tienes la sensación de estar desbordado por la existencia? ¿Paralizado por compromisos -afectivos, laborales...- que ya no te satisfacen? ¿Dominado por complejos de culpa o inseguridad? No proyectes tu insatisfacción en otros: la causa está en ti, en las «zonas erróneas» de tu person
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter ‒ And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay · 272 pages
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
Katty Kay, Claire Shipman · 256 pages
"Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition--with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and
Living Loving and Learning
Leo F. Buscaglia · 267 pages
The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves · 196 pages
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Martin E.P. Seligman · 336 pages
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an I-give-up habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior
SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games
Jane McGonigal · 466 pages
A renowned game designer describes how she recovered from a debilitating concussion by turning her therapeutic process into a digital game that became the subject of a major NIH research study.
Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
Angela Duckworth · 344 pages
Pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.”
The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life
Tal Ben-Shahar
DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO BE PERFECT?We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness.OR DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY?Applying cu
Too soon old, too late smart
Gordon Livingston · 164 pages
Gordon Livingston was awarded the Bronze Star for valor during the Vietnam War. He offers advice gleaned from his patients during his thirty years of professional work.
Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins · 142 pages
Improve communication, resolve conflicts, and avoid the most common conversational disasters through simple, easily remembered strategies that deflect and redirect negative behaviour. Verbal judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in
The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 322 pages
Summary:One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how readers can attain the same inner peace
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B Peterson · 416 pages
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate a