7 must-read self help books like The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6) by Neel Burton

Cover of The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6) by Neel Burton

The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

By: Neel Burton

3.68

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

What is success, and is it worth the sacrifice? A psychiatrist and philosopher searches for a bett…

"False success makes people arrogant; true success makes them mild."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

"The wind, like the word, is breath that has been freed from death."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

"False success makes people arrogant; true success makes them mild."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

"The wind, like the word, is breath that has been freed from death."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

If you liked the self help plot in The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6) by Neel Burton , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge

1. iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

By: Jean M. Twenge

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen--the children, teens, … read more

Similar categories in Jean M. Twenge's iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • nonfiction
  • psychology

2. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

By: M. Scott Peck

2.50

Format: 52 pages,

read more

Similar categories in M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

Cover of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

3. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

Similar categories in Michael J. Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Cover of The War on the West by Douglas Murray

4. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Murray's The War on the West book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

Cover of Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To by David A. Sinclair

5. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To

By: David A. Sinclair

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more

Similar categories in David A. Sinclair's Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas

6. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

By: Brian Klaas

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more

Similar categories in Brian Klaas's Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control by Ryan Holiday

7. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

By: Ryan Holiday

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case … read more

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"We must master ourselves unless we'd prefer to be mastered by someone or something else."

-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

"We must practice temperance now, in times of plenty, because none of us know what the future holds- only that plenty never lasts."

-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

Cover of Meantime by Frankie Boyle

8. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Boyle's Meantime book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

Cover of The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

9. The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By: Bill Bryson

4.32

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's The Body: A Guide for Occupants book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt

11. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Cover of Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Similar categories in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • 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

Cover of The God Desire by David Baddiel

13. The God Desire

By: David Baddiel

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's The God Desire book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

Cover of Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler

14. Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living

By: David Fideler

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher Se… read more

Similar categories in David Fideler's Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz

15. The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart

By: Noreena Hertz

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account by "one of the world's leading thinkers" (The Observ… read more

Similar categories in Noreena Hertz's The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6) by Neel Burton

16. The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

By: Neel Burton

3.68

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

What is success, and is it worth the sacrifice? A psychiatrist and philosopher searches for a bett… read more

Similar categories in Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6) book and Neel Burton's The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"The wind, like the word, is breath that has been freed from death."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

"False success makes people arrogant; true success makes them mild."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

"A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

"One must, from an early age, be stronger than one's parents, or be destroyed by them."

-Neel Burton, The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6)

8 best-selling philosophy books like The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia Book 6) by Neel Burton

Transform Your Habits

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The War on the West

Douglas Murray

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

Ryan Holiday

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Jonathan Haidt

4.24

View all the books

16 best-selling audiobook books like Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To by David A. Sinclair

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.