These 5 books on creativity will help you in unleashing your creative potential to succeed as an artist, innovate in your business or even just do better at your job. Great for anyone seeking to become a bit more creative!
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Authors: Barbara Sher,
Barbara Sher is gifted with the ability to make a person realize their potential and tread the path to success. In this book, she reveals the reasons why you run when things crash in life and gives you the motivation to keep going until you reach the end-line. She also introduces a unique group of people called “The scanners”.
Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life
Authors: Jon Kabat-Zinn,
Through mindfulness, you will discover a fuller sense of self and contentment in life. Renowned teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, shows you how you can master this skill. In this book, he demonstrates the power of heartfulness, why you should keep returning to your authentic self frequently, the 3 mental causes of suffering and more such life-transforming principles.
The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live–and How You Can Change Them
Authors: Richard J. Davidson,Sharon Begley
Just like your fingerprint, your brain has a unique emotional print that is made up of resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity and attention. In this book, Richard Davidson gives you access to this side of your mind, so you can gain a better understanding of yourself, learn to cope with depression and even treat autism.
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Authors: William B. Irvine,
Using Stoic philosophy, Irvine saves you from regretting your life on your deathbed. He draws lessons from ancient Rome and guides you to let go of your past and prepare yourself for your future. He teaches you to become an observer in your life so you can stop and ponder over it.
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Authors: Ryan Holiday,
2000 years ago, Marcus Aurelius said, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Inspired by his words and Stoic philosophy, Ryan Holiday shows you how you can convert all the pain and suffering into opportunities in life that will strengthen you and open doors you never knew existed.
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
Authors: Eric Greitens,
This book contains the personal and life-transforming letters that were shared between Eric Greitens and his former comrade, Zach Walters. It covers some of life’s greatest struggles, such as PTSD and discovering the purpose of your life. It also has solutions to these problems and shows you a way to bring the fighter inside you back to life.
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Authors: Daniel Goleman,Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
As a leader, you cannot be rigid. Your leadership style must change to accommodate the circumstances. You must be enthusiastic if you want your team to follow suit. You must be full of energy if you want a team that works even half as hard as you do. Learn how you can acquire and master such traits from leadership expert, Daniel Goleman himself.
Rich Dad’s Retire Young, Retire Rich: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever!
Authors: Robert T. Kiyosaki,Sharon L. Lechter
Let’s face it — we don’t want to spend the best years of our life at work. However, we’re also not financially stable enough to retire young. Renowned author, Robert Kiyosaki, shows you how you can make the most of your money and invest wisely. That way, you’ll be free to quit your job early and still have enough money to enjoy your life post retirement.
More than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny
Authors: Dave Ramsey,
Being financially stable can lead to lots of benefits in your life, especially when you have a family to take care of. Dave Ramsey presents some guidelines that will help you acquire enough wealth to live peacefully, without the stress or burden of earning a living. You’ll also learn how to retire wealthy and create a practical budget that suits your income.
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Authors: John Battelle,
On 4-Sep-1998, the world changed. People gained access to information like never before, and this changed how everything was done — from business to dating. The Search is a book about the company that changed the way the world searched for information — Google — its success, history and how it will continue to change the future.
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
Authors: Jessica Livingston,
Jessica Livingston gives you unprecedented access to every giant in Silicon Valley — how did they start? What were their challenges? How did they overcome these challenges? Discover the story of Hotmail, Yahoo, Flickr, PayPal and many more through Founders at work. This isn’t just a book of their story, it’s an inspiration for every individual who has an idea.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
Authors: Josh Kaufman,
An MBA will only teach you how to make a good Powerpoint presentation and some outdated and irrelevant financial models. Josh Kauffman gives you advice and information on how you can run a real business, unlike those that exist in textbooks. Save hundreds of dollars and learn something that can truly benefit you through Kauffman’s The Personal MBA.
Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
Authors: Oren Klaff,
Working hard could give you the desired results. But working smart guarantees those results. Oren Klaff teaches you how to act smart, as well as the science of sharing ideas with the world in a manner that grabs the audience’s attention. His pragmatic advice and case studies will change your career and open the doors of success in your life.
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Authors: Stephen R. Covey,
We are all desperate for our voices to be heard. We yearn to find our inner voice and to use it to change the world. This is the 8th habit. In this life-changing book, he eloquently teaches how to achieve your 8th habit and use it to discover your purpose in life.
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Authors: John Taylor Gatto,
Teaching in public schools for thirty years made Gatto realize that compulsory school does little to prepare students for the real world. He argues that all it does is to imitate military regimes and make students always follow orders, becoming dumb soldiers rather than leaders. In this second edition, he also discusses his “guerilla teaching” methodology and the impact it has had on the academic world.
Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime
Authors: Jia Jiang,
Jia Jiang came to the US with the dream of becoming the next Bill Gates. But his very first rejection, made him lose hope and question his capabilities. Realizing that his inability to handle rejection was a greater dilemma, he then trained himself to accept a “no” with confidence. And then how this “no” can eventually be converted to a successful “yes”.
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