A person is a creature with a mind and, as many believe, a soul. That is why for man there is a tendency to new knowledge, to self-improvement. This is a distinctive quality, it distinguishes it from other living beings. Self-development and personal growth are an indispensable quality of a successful person. To achieve heights in professional activity, you need to analyze the accumulated experience and draw conclusions from it.
If a person does not develop, then inevitably there is a process of degradation. The reason for this is very simple: the world that surrounds us swiftly rushes forward and to keep up with it we have to flee.
On the path of self-development( as well as on any other) it is very important to take the first step. It is equally important to find a person who could help, give the right advice, suggest the right direction. In eastern religions, such a person is called a guru.
However, in our time the process of knowledge transfer has changed somewhat. Many people who have achieved success in business, in other professional activities or have created spiritual practice, write books on the pages of which they share their own experience. In this way they can transmit information to dozens of millions of people in different countries of the world. We have compiled a list for you, which included the most best books on self-development. These books have already changed the lives of millions of people on our planet.
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Paulo Coelho. Alchemist
This book does not contain descriptions of exercises or spiritual practices, in it you will not find stories about the mysteries of the universe or prophecies about the creation of the world. This novel tells of human destiny and the search for the meaning of life. A book about what is often the most important near us, but to understand this, it is necessary to go a very long way.
At the center of this story is a story about a Spanish youth who goes overseas in search of mysterious treasures. He finds them, but for this he had to make a long way and return to the very place where he started it. He knew love and friendship, saw the life of other nations, experienced many adventures, and with him there was a mysterious transformation, just like lead, which the wise alchemists turn into gold.
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Ayn Rand. Atlant straightened the shoulders of
This book is about the love of his work, the story of real professionalism and the very foundations on which the wealth of the Western world stands. To become a true professional, little well-developed skills and hard work, skill can only be achieved through genuine love for his work.
If we all concentrate our energies on what we are doing, we will live in a different world, much better than what exists now. This is worth learning from the heroes of this book. It describes businessmen, businessmen, each of whom has his own business, but not only profit interests these people, in the first place are very different priorities.
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Sharma Robin. The monk who sold his Ferrari
This is a story about a successful lawyer who has everything to feel happy: money, success, health. But there is no main thing - happiness. There was a void in his soul.
Having adopted the latest achievements of Western psychology and thousands of years of Eastern wisdom, he defeated his spiritual crisis. For himself, he derived several rules, which he shares on the pages of the book. They are quite simple: to live joyfully, to follow one's vocation and be courageous, to live only here and now, to appreciate the people around you. Like any real wisdom, these rules are very simple.
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Bill Gates. Road to the future
This book was written by a man who is considered a cult figure of our time. Bill Gates - one of the most famous businessmen, the creator of Microsoft, a well-known philanthropist and public figure.
At present we are on the verge of radical changes that will occur in the near future and will change the life of each of us. They are already taking place. We can safely say that we do not know our world in ten years. In his book, Gates reflects on the future of our world, on the impact of digital technology on man and society. He pays a lot of attention to the worldwide Internet network, which in just a decade has become a part of our life. Also from this book we learn a lot about the author himself, about his work and about his youthful years.
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Victor Frankl. Saying life Yes
This book has turned the lives of many people. Its author, philosopher and psychologist, who passed through the terrible Nazi death camps, writes his truth about the meaning of life, the true dignity of a person and, of course, the freedom that is within a person.
This book has sold millions of copies around the world and helped many people to look at their lives in a completely different way.
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Brian Tracy. Quit the comfort zone
This book became a bestseller almost immediately after its release and is one of the best for self-development. Its author is a psychologist who works in the field of achieving personal success. The author himself also went for a very long time to his own success and tried his hand at various fields of activity.
The book gives advice on the wise management of its time, which is one of the most valuable resources. To succeed, a person must leave his comfort zone, in which he feels comfortable and safe. But sitting in one place, you can not succeed. To achieve it, you need risk, activity, perseverance and self-confidence.
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Malcolm Gladwell. Geniuses and outsiders
Life is extremely unfair thing. One in it is success, fame, money, and others are forced to live their whole life in poverty and ignorance. Why is that? The reason is only in the natural abilities of a person, his talents? Or is it the cause of this blind chance? The author considers this problem in detail. He created his own very interesting theory, which explains why in January more famous hockey players are born, why Asian students are better mathematics and what is common between Bill Gates, Mozart and the Beatles musicians. This book is very different from the banal textbooks on achieving success, which have appeared very much in recent years. It's just a study of the laws of life, made an interesting and extraordinary person.
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Allan Pease. Body language
This book was published several decades ago, but still remains a world bestseller. The main idea of this book is very simple: language can lie, but the body - never.
The human body gives out his real thoughts and emotions, and he does not know how to lie, we just need to learn how to read this language. It is very simple, a little workout and you will know very easily what exactly your interlocutor is thinking about you. True, while the person should develop in themselves mindfulness.
Having learned the language of human body movements, you can more successfully negotiate, make new contacts and avoid the side of liars and scammers.
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Allen Carr. Easy way to quit smoking
All honest. The author does offer a way to quickly get rid of addiction. Millions of people around the world quit smoking thanks to the book Allen Carr, including even some Hollywood celebrities. The technique that the author proposes makes this step almost painless. A person does not feel restrained by stopping to smoke.
What is the secret? According to Carr, the main difficulty of giving up a cigarette lies in human psychology. We ourselves have inspired ourselves that without smoking we will be unhappy and inferior. You just have to change the internal settings and give up the bad habit will be quite easy. Allen Carr himself was a passionate smoker, but then he quite easily abandoned his habit. Now his books help to maintain health to millions of people around the world.
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Richard Bach. Seagull Jonathan Livingstone
This is one of the most amazing books on self-development that I've read. The genre of this book can be called a parable. It tells about a seagull, which bored the boring and measured life of its fellow tribesmen. A seagull named Jonathan Livingston dreamed of speed, about new unknown distances. The bird persistently sought her dream and for this she was expelled from her pack.
But this did not stop the proud bird, on the contrary, the expulsion was only the beginning of its path to new heights. Jonathan falls into a special place, where the same birds live as he does. He improves, becomes more and more skilful flyer, and then returns to his native flock and begins to teach his fellow tribesmen who drove him out.
This book is about how you can change your life, about spiritual freedom, in which in very beautiful and simple form it is said about very important things: self-perfection and self-sacrifice.