19 best-selling self help books like Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By: Cal Newport

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o…

"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasantly stale."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

If you liked the self help plot in Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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  • psychology
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2. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

By: Fumio Sasaki , None

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he's just a regular guy who was stressed at w… read more

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3. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

By: Adam Alter

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction--an age in which half of the American population is addi… read more

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4. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

By: None , Matthew Walker

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker pr… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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5. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By: David Allen

4.01

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more

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  • productivity
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"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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6. 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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  • science
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  • nonfiction
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"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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7. 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
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8. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • technology
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9. The Psychology of Money

By: Morgan Housel

4.30

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavio… read more

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"Saving is the gap between your ego and your income."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

"Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

"To grasp why people bury themselves in debt, you don’t need to study interest rate: you need to sturdy the history of greed , insecurity and optimism."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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10. 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
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11. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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12. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more

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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

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13. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By: Anna Lembke

3.91

Format: 304 pages, ebook

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more

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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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14. 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

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15. 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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"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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16. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

By: James Clear

4.35

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear,… read more

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"Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more."

-James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

"Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way."

-James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

"Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement."

-James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

"Anyone can work hard when they feel motivated. It’s the ability to keep going when work isn’t exciting that makes the difference."

-James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Cover of Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

17. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By: Cal Newport

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more

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"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cover of Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp

18. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

By: Jake Knapp

4.08

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, … read more

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19. How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

By: Catherine Price

3.92

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide f… read more

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"In short, if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to look at your phone."

-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

"Flow is a term coined by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe the feeling you get when you’re completely and totally engaged in an experience. People can experience flow when they’re …"

-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

"If you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memorie…"

-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

"Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 20414, …"

-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

Cover of Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life by Daniel Mangena

20. Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life

By: Daniel Mangena

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Money Game eBook: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An … read more

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"The inner work that must be done will not always be easy and the road will not always be smooth, but it is vital to do the work of shedding the stories that are the true source of suffering."

-Daniel Mangena, Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life

"By spending time being abundant in the present, using the tactics and strategies I give you, such as playing the Money Game, you will start to break down resistance and prove to yourself that everyth…"

-Daniel Mangena, Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life

"The basic premise is that for any outcome to show up for you, there must be an alignment of our energy or emotions (energy in motion), our mindset and beliefs, and the actions that we are at least po…"

-Daniel Mangena, Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life

"This game’s principal purpose is to expose your mind to the experience of firsthand evidence of money coming to you, with you not having to reach out for it. You may have to take action to formalise …"

-Daniel Mangena, Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life

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21. You Should Quit Reddit

By: Jacob Desforges

4.16

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

In recent years, countless books, articles, and documentaries have addressed the negative effects t… read more

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15 best-selling audiobook books like Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

Transform Your Habits

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

4.01

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

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Tiago Forte

4.06

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

4.15

Transform Your Habits

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3.91

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson , None

3.88

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