20 must-read personal development books like Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams

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Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

By: Matt Abrahams

3.74

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public spea…

"Be obvious’ is the most powerful, creative mantra that there is,"

-Matt Abrahams, Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

If you liked the personal development plot in Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up

By: None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of … read more

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2. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • communication
  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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3. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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4. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • communication
  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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6. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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9. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

By: Ali Abdaal

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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10. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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11. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

By: Michael Easter

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."

-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

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12. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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13. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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14. Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

By: Matt Abrahams

3.74

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public spea… read more

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  • communication
  • productivity
  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Be obvious’ is the most powerful, creative mantra that there is,"

-Matt Abrahams, Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

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15. Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more

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  • communication
  • audiobook
  • self help
  • psychology
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg

16. Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

By: Brad Stulberg

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset … read more

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  • audiobook
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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C. Edmondson

17. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

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Cover of The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions by Hasard Lee

18. The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions

By: Hasard Lee

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

THE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisi… read more

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Cover of The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton

19. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • productivity
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Cover of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson

20. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

By: Claire Hughes Johnson

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more

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21. The Art of Explanation

By: Ros Atkins

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creat… read more

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Cover of Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World by Todd Rogers

22. Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World

By: Todd Rogers

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life . Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink o… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower by Morra Aarons-Mele

23. The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower

By: Morra Aarons-Mele

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely and compelling guide to managing the anxiety that comes with succeeding and leading—from e… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems by Frances Frei

24. Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems

By: Frances Frei

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable , Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • business
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Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

25. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • psychology
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Cover of 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career by Jeffrey Pfeffer

26. 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school… read more

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  • psychology
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Cover of Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You) by Jim Vandehei

27. Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)

By: Jim Vandehei

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The Holy Grail of Investing: The World's Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultimate Strategies for Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins

28. The Holy Grail of Investing: The World's Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultimate Strategies for Financial Freedom

By: Tony Robbins

3.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony Robbins, who has coached more than fifty million people from 100 countries, is the world’s #1 … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict by William Ury

29. Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

By: William Ury

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of the world’s best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of exper… read more

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  • communication
  • self help
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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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30. Team: Getting Things Done with Others

By: David Allen

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A groundbreaking book about how to harness the power of collaboration and work most effectively in … read more

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  • productivity
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook

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