19 Best self help books like The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff

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The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro…

"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

If you liked the self help plot in The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in David Brooks's How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen book and Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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2. 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
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • 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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3. 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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  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Adam M. Grant's Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things book and Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • 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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6. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

By: Annie Duke

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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7. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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9. 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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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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10. 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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11. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

By: Pooja Lakshmin

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

Similar categories in Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work book and Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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14. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

By: Thomas Curran

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling t… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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15. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

By: Katherine Morgan Schafler

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Energy management beats time management."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."

-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

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16. The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life

By: Emily Ballesteros

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings … read more

Similar categories in Emily Ballesteros's The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life book and Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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17. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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18. Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

By: Adam Alter

3.96

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even bu… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

By: Rainesford Stauffer

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of … read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough" by Manisha Thakor

20. MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough"

By: Manisha Thakor

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A leading financial expert breaks down the personal, cultural, and societal forces that have led us… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop by Loretta Graziano Breuning

21. Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop

By: Loretta Graziano Breuning

3.90

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Rewire your brain to avoid the trap of comparison and status-seeking to achieve more contentment an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help

5 best-selling adult books like The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

Pooja Lakshmin

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

Simone Stolzoff

4.17

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21 best-selling audiobook books like All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford Stauffer

Transform Your Habits

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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