I’m now setting up my reading plan for the next three months, and I’d like to ask for your help. Since I’m currently still a graduate student, I have good access to the library and can read practically any book I want. However, this (hopefully) would be my last semester, and after that my access to the library would be limited. It would then be harder for me to get good books to read.
So I want to use these three months as good as possible. I want to list all the best books for personal growth and try to finish them within these three months. Currently, some books I seriously consider are The Simple Dollar’s recommendations, but I’m sure that there are still many other great books out there.
So I’d like to ask you: what do you think are the best books for personal growth and why? The books do not have to be in personal growth, personal productivity, or related genres. They can also come from other genres (such as business or biography) from which we can extract a lot of lessons. So feel free to recommend any book that you think can help us grow personally. I’m sure your recommendations will be useful not just to me, but to other readers as well.
Comment by Dave
6 16. September 2007, 3:38 pm o'clock |
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, and the related books by Robin Sharma - solid stuff.
Comment by Martin Hughes
5 16. September 2007, 2:43 pm o'clock |
A slightly different take on personal development would be “Tricks of the Mind” by Derren Brown. Some very interesting concepts and new takes on old techniques.
Comment by Corinne Edwards
4 16. September 2007, 12:13 pm o'clock |
I would suggest two vastly different books -
The Power of Intention - Esther and Jerry Hicks
Spiritual Divorce - Debbie Ford
Let us know how you are doing!
Comment by Lawrence Cheok
3 16. September 2007, 6:57 am o'clock |
There’s so many good ones out there that listing a few, leaving out the others just doesn’t do justice.
Nonetheless, I like to list one book that started my journey on self development; it’s ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ from Dr. Stephen R. Covey.
Thanks to this book, I wouldn’t have discovered my passion for the field of personal development.
Comment by Rexpop
2 16. September 2007, 1:57 am o'clock |
Kenneth Higbee’s “Your Memory” and Harry Lorayne’s “The Memory Book” are two good books on memory tools.
I prefer the Memory Book, though “Your Memory” delves more into theory.
I enjoy the Peg, and thanks to the Memory Book I can memorize 25-digit numbers.
Comment by Kate Davis
1 15. September 2007, 1:46 pm o'clock |
I have found two of Mark Forster’s books (Get everything done and still have time to play and Do it tomorrow) to be very inspiring.
I have used several of his ideas in developing my organiser