Books that are useful and have legit made you a better person

[TheM]

Just finished reading atomic habits and I can say it's pretty damn good

Now thinking about reading 48 laws of power but wondering if there's anything better out there, just have to be relevant and useful for navigating everyday life

[Zelensky]

[Paul Kreul]

[LogicalLifts]

[jtaylor2010]

Can confirm Atomic Habits is a legit read. Others I’d recommend:


https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50622186

A pioneer in the field of social engineering and a master hacker, Christopher Hadnagy specializes in understanding how malicious attackers exploit principles of human communication to access information and resources through manipulation and deceit. Now, he shows you how to use social engineering as a force for good—to help you regain your confidence and control. Human Hacking provides tools that will help you establish rapport with strangers, use body language and verbal cues to your advantage, steer conversations and influence other’s decisions, and protect yourself from manipulators. Ultimately, you’ll become far more self-aware about how you’re presenting yourself—and able to use it to improve your life.

Hadnagy includes lessons and interactive “missions”—exercises spread throughout the book to help you learn the skills, practice them, and master them. With Human Hacking, you’ll soon be winning friends, influencing people, and achieving your goals.




https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815.Influence


Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.

You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them. Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.



https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25502617


While the term acedia may be unfamiliar, the vice, usually translated as sloth, is all too common. Sloth is not mere laziness, however, but a disgust with reality, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful hatred of place and life itself. As described by Josef Pieper, the slothful person does not “want to be as God wants him to be, and that ultimately means he does not wish to be what he really, fundamentally is.” Sloth is a hellish despair. Our own culture is deeply infected, choosing a destructive freedom rather than the good work for which God created us. Acedia and Its Discontents resists despair, calling us to reconfigure our imaginations and practices in deep love of the life and work given by God.

[crupiea]

The Richest Man in Babylon.

Easy read, you can pretty much knock it out in a day.

[DolphinPilot]

I preferred Laws of Human Nature over 48 Laws of Power. Too much Machiavellian stuff, too much contradictory elements. I recall two Laws back-to-back contradicted each other, specifically. I forget what they were.

Personally I've been big into Rollo May books for self-improvement. He has a few books on anxiety (not the type we are all accustomed to, he talks about any part of our being that keeps us from doing what we want) that I feel are truly beneficial and insightful.

[LargePeter]

[wings_unhinged]

^ Classic misc

The Demon Haunted World by Carl Mo****in Sagan

[TrynaBeast]

How to Win Friends and Influencer People is my favorite
The Power of Positive Thinking
The One Thing

Good job on the self improvement OP keep it up

[bigben2121]

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