17 must-read personal development books like Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You by Phil Stutz

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Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

By: Phil Stutz

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Profound essays that cut through the messiness of life to help you get the good from the bad—by fam…

If you liked the personal development plot in Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You by Phil Stutz , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential by Phil Stutz, Barry Michels

1. Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

By: Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For anyone who's ever felt demoralized, addicted, drained of energy, or victimized, this follow-up … read more

Similar categories in Phil Stutz's Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We'd like to imagine we can make evil disappear in one, decisive victory. But evil won't cooperate, it reappears endlessly. You attain Goodness by transforming it every time it returns. That's what G…"

-Phil Stutz, Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

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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

Similar categories in David Brooks's How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

3. 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

Similar categories in Charles Duhigg's Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

4. 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

Similar categories in Morgan Housel's Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

5. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Brooks's Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Cover of Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam M. Grant

6. 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

Similar categories in Adam M. Grant's Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

7. 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

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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8. 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

Similar categories in Ali Abdaal's Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Shane Parrish's Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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10. 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

Similar categories in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • 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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11. The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

By: Nate Zinsser

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Believe and be unshakable. The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares th… read more

Similar categories in Nate Zinsser's The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously."

-Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

Cover of Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg

12. 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

Similar categories in Brad Stulberg's Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

13. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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

14. 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

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life by Robin S. Sharma

15. The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life

By: Robin S. Sharma

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book redefining success to show readers how they can create truly abundant and ful… read more

Similar categories in Robin S. Sharma's The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood

16. Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley

By: Brent Underwood

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned… read more

Similar categories in Brent Underwood's Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You by Phil Stutz

17. Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

By: Phil Stutz

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Profound essays that cut through the messiness of life to help you get the good from the bad—by fam… read more

Similar categories in Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential by Brian             Johnson

18. Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential

By: Brian Johnson

4.68

Format: 1060 pages, Hardcover

“This book will change your life. And, if enough of us commit, it will change the world.” — Phil St… read more

Similar categories in Brian Johnson's Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim

19. When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times

By: Haemin Sunim

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim, a guide to turning life's challenges into opportun… read more

Similar categories in Haemin Sunim's When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life by Annie Zimmerman

20. Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life

By: Annie Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From psychotherapist and TikTok personality Dr. Annie Zimmerman comes a toolkit to transform yourse… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything by James R. Doty

21. Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

By: James R. Doty

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing you… read more

Similar categories in James R. Doty's Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything book and Phil Stutz's Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook

19 Top audiobook books like Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You by Phil Stutz

Transform Your Habits

Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.07

Transform Your Habits

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

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

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4.19

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20 Top audiobook books like Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

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A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

4.07

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