21 must-read personal development books like How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier

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How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

3.70

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

“Piercingly frank, funny, gorgeous, vulnerable, and ultimately really damn helpful.”— Julie Lythcot…

If you liked the personal development plot in How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series) by Edgar H. Schein

1. Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series)

By: Edgar H. Schein

3.92

Format: 167 pages, Hardcover

In this seminal book on helping, corporate culture and organizational development guru Ed Schein an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • business
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation by Frans Johansson

2. The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation

By: Frans Johansson

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charl… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • leadership
Cover of Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin E.P. Seligman

3. Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

By: Martin E.P. Seligman

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"This book will help you flourish." With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psych… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of Key Person of Influence (Revised Edition): The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry by Daniel Priestley

4. Key Person of Influence (Revised Edition): The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry

By: Daniel Priestley

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

FULLY REVISED EDITION with over 10,000 words of new content. Every industry revolves around Key Peo… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

5. Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

By: Raj Sisodia , None

4.22

Format: None pages,

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6. Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

By: Martha N. Beck

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationsh… read more

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7. The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

By: Stephen R. Covey

4.23

Format: 11 pages,

L'ultimo contributo del maggiore autore a livello internazionale sulle tematiche manageriali e di c… read more

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8. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

By: Lynda Barry

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling… read more

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9. 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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  • 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

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

10. 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
Cover of Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever (Bulletproof, 5) by Dave Asprey

11. Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever (Bulletproof, 5)

By: Dave Asprey

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Bulletproof creator and bestselling author Dave Asprey comes a revolutionary approach to anti-… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness

12. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

By: Steve Magness

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more

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

13. 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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14. Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

By: Scott H. Young

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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15. The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

By: Seth Godin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A soulful re-envisioning of what work and leadership can be, from the visionary mind of renowned au… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • business
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation by Benjamin P. Hardy

16. Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

By: Benjamin P. Hardy

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This isn't a book about BECOMING it's about BEING: noted psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy shows how … read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Hope is the powerpack that sustains you through the ups and downs of whatever you’re pursuing."

-Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

"Your life is like a garden. If you’re not intentional, your garden will be overrun with weeds and randomness."

-Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

"According to Dr. Angela Duckworth, grit is passion and perseverance toward long-term goals. [...] Grit is sticking to one thing for years or even decades."

-Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

"Is your life the product of conscious choosing, or are you merely reacting to your environment? Are your surroundings governing you, or do you influence your environment?"

-Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

Cover of Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick by Wendy Wood

17. Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

By: Wendy Wood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire by Dan Martell

18. Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

By: Dan Martell

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and gr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours by Noah Kagan

19. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

By: Noah Kagan

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a si… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Renegades (Hell Divers #11) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

20. Renegades (Hell Divers #11)

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

4.46

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

The secret location of the Vanguard Islands is no longer a secret . . . Tired from years of figh… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack

21. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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Cover of The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You by Michael Gervais

22. The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You

By: Michael Gervais

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what m… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
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  • leadership
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

23. 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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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take Control of Your Finances, Manage Your Spending, and De-Stress Your Money for Good (Personal Finance and Budgeting Self-Help Book) by Ashley Feinstein Gerstley

24. The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take Control of Your Finances, Manage Your Spending, and De-Stress Your Money for Good (Personal Finance and Budgeting Self-Help Book)

By: Ashley Feinstein Gerstley

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Create a healthy money mindset that will eliminate financial stress, form a positive money habit, a… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life (Business Books, Graphic Design Books, Books on Success) by James Victore

25. Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life (Business Books, Graphic Design Books, Books on Success)

By: James Victore

4.06

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"James Victore is a dangerous man. His ideas on optimizing your creativity, doing wow work, and bui… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together by Gaby Dunn

26. Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

By: Gaby Dunn

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The beloved writer-comedian expands on her popular podcast with an entertaining, refreshing, and em… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
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"He often tells me “the Universe will provide."

-Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

"This narrative is an extension of the “prosperity gospel,"

-Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

"...When you label that stuff that used to be basic as "entitlement," then you're allowing yourself to be treated poorly. Is being able to buy food "entitlement"? Is seeing a doctor when you're sick "…"

-Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

Cover of The 5 Voices: How to Communicate Effectively with Everyone You Lead by Jeremie Kubicek

27. The 5 Voices: How to Communicate Effectively with Everyone You Lead

By: Jeremie Kubicek

3.95

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover your leadership voice and unlock your potential to influence others 5 Voices is the code f… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation by Ayelet Fishbach

28. Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

By: Ayelet Fishbach

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover a "compelling" framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mind… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
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29. How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

3.70

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

“Piercingly frank, funny, gorgeous, vulnerable, and ultimately really damn helpful.”— Julie Lythcot… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money by Tom Hodgkinson

30. Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money

By: Tom Hodgkinson

3.71

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not."

-Tom Hodgkinson, Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money

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31. 24 Assets: Create a digital, scalable, valuable and fun business that will thrive in a fast changing world

By: Daniel Priestley

4.19

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In every industry, there are companies that take off. They effortlessly hire talented people, attra… read more

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  • productivity
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

21 must-read audiobook books like How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier

Transform Your Habits

Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series)

Edgar H. Schein

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever (Bulletproof, 5)

Dave Asprey

3.85

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17 best-selling audiobook books like The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take Control of Your Finances, Manage Your Spending, and De-Stress Your Money for Good (Personal Finance and Budgeting Self-Help Book) by Ashley Feinstein Gerstley

Transform Your Habits

The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time

Anna Newell Jones

4.39

Transform Your Habits

You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

Jesse Mecham

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life

Vivian Tu

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Tiffany Aliche

4.37

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