14 Top personal development books like Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott H. Young

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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…

If you liked the personal development plot in Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott H. Young , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Against the Odds: An Autobiography

By: James Dyson

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

2. 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
  • audiobook
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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

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook
"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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4. 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
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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5. 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 Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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6. 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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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. 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

Similar categories in Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours book and Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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9. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

Similar categories in Casey Means's Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health book and Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book and Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Ros Atkins's The Art of Explanation book and Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
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12. 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 Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

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

13. 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
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin

14. Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing

By: Laura Mae Martin

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the new way of work work for… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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15. The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

By: Michael Norton

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth’s Grit, a … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

16. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook
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18. Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change

By: Nicole Vignola

4.33

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

YOUR VERY OWN NEURO-TOOLKIT FOR A GOOD LIFE. CHANGE YOUR MIND TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Discover the n… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook
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19. A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer

By: Bob Doto

4.24

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS IS A BOOK FOR WRITERS who want to write more, who struggle to write, who ruminate on ideas, bu… read more

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  • productivity
  • nonfiction
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20. The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network

By: David Robson

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, sh… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • audiobook

17 must-read audiobook books like Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott H. Young

Transform Your Habits

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

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

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

Ali Abdaal

4.01

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16 best-selling audiobook books like The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher

4.27

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