The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on...

The New Mood Therapy

Feeling Good

Why Do I Do That? adapts the basic strategies of psychodynamic psychotherapy to a guided course in self-exploration, highlighting the universal role of defense mechanisms in warding off emotional pain. With easy-to-understand explanations, the first part teaches you about the unconscious mind and the role of psychological defenses in excluding diff...

Psychological Defense Mechanisms and the Hidden Ways They Shape Our Lives

Why Do I Do That?

The basic handbook of transactional analysis.Dr. Eric Berne, as the originator of transactional analysis, has attained recognition for developing one of the most innovative approaches to modern psychotherapy. Discover how many of these "secret games" you play everyday of your life: Iwfy (If it weren't for you); Sweetheart; Threadbare; Harried; Alco...

The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.

Games People Play

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son. Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medita...

An Inquiry into Values

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness 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,...

The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Flow

These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power, style, and conviction these letters will guide and inspire anyone who reads them....

Letters to a Young Poet

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, D...

Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

How Not to Die

Now a New York Times BestsellerA hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voicesAt some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom ...

Modern Romance

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.Through ...

Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Emotional Intelligence

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityIn his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed...

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Skin in the Game

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.In Quiet, Susan...

The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quiet

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work ...

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep Work

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with re...

Man's Search for Meaning

Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, ...

Life and Work

Principles

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligen...

Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

Permission to Feel

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strate...

Kind of the Story of My Life

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Books that have helped my personal development journey.

Personal Development

Ross Gerber

Joshua Waitzkin

Diddy

Chip Conley

Bill Gates

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Dustin Moskovitz

Raoul Pal

Adam Savage

Sandeep Maheshwari

Laurie Halse Anderson

Victor Asemota

Berci Meskó

Scott Monty

Charlie Bilello

Amanda Palmer

Ankur Warikoo

Jillian Michaels

Sven Gatz

Heather E Heying

Robin Black

Shoshana Weissmann

Jim Kwik

Jason Fried

Jack Dorsey

David Blaine

Tai Lopez

Peter Mallouk

Jay Shetty

Daniel Pink

Michael Bloomberg

Susan J. Fowler

Cory Booker

Derek Sivers

Rachel Botsman

Tim Ferriss

Mark Cuban

Ev Williams

Scott Adams

Turia Pitt

Mike Shellenberger

Michael Gervais

Terry Crews

Ryan Holiday

Marc Benioff

Sadia Badiei

Josh Waitzkin

Kevin Systrom

David Heinemeier Hansson

Steve Kerr

Esther Perel

Fedor Holz

Dave Elitch

Drew Houston

Amy Cuddy

Jason A. Williams

Tom Bilyeu

Arianna Huffington

Ben Horowitz

Bryan Johnson

Preston Pysh

Chris Messina

Simon Sinek

Krista Tippett

Reed Hastings

Marc Andreessen

Naval Ravikant

Stuart McMillan

Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Matthew Kobach

Adam Grant

Miranda Hart

Sahil Lavingia

Jordan Peterson

Russell Roberts

Nicholas C. Zakas

James Altucher

Fola Aina

PewDiePie

Pavel Durov

Amy Tan

Tony Robbins

Emma Watson

Jeff Morris Jr.

Vivek Murthy

Jeffrey Shaw

Keith Rabois

Jimmy Fallon

Tom Peters

Maria Popova

Rob Dyrdek

Susan Suehr

Vahe Hovhannisyan