18 best-selling self help books like Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

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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…

"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

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

"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

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

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

If you liked the self help plot in Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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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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  • 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

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3. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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4. 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
  • science
"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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5. 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
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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7. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. 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 Arthur C. Brooks's Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • science
"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

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9. 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
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. 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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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • 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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11. 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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  • 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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12. 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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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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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13. 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

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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"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

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14. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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15. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

By: Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"

-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

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16. 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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  • personal development
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"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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17. Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

By: Jamie Kern Lima

4.07

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

What has self-doubt already cost you in your life?Imagine what you’d do if you FULLY believed in YO… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger

18. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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19. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
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  • audiobook
Cover of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age by Chip Conley

20. Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age

By: Chip Conley

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy “reminds us all t… read more

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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
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  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

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

David Brooks

4.14

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Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Transform Your Habits

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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