Self Growth

Think and Grow Rich was one of the first ever published books on personal development and on how to be successful. It describes the way ideas are transformed from a single thought into reality. The author also describes examples of remarkable men and how they became successful.

Tony Robbins is one of the most successful life coaches on earth. His best-seller Awaken the Giant Within was the first book of this type that I read in August 2019. It’s a complex book with a lot of tasks that will change your life if you really work through it. It was the turning point in my life at least.

Unlimited Power is Anthony Robbi's first book. I read it after the second one, which is better in my opinion. Nevertheless, there are some key ideas in this first book (and exercises) that aren’t included in the second book but that are super helpful.

Mel Robbins is a very successful personal development Coach. In this book, she presents 6 coach cases with people and explains what these people should do. For sure there will be one or two cases you can apply to your own life. There is also a workbook with exercises to fill in about your own life.

In this book, Carnegie explains why worrying takes so much time from us and how we can keep it to a minimum. As in his other books, he explains his main points by telling stories of people. In each story, there is a take-away.

This book talks about “Scanners”. Scanners are people who are interested and also talented in many different things and areas. The book explains how Scanners can survive in a world where we are always supposed to “choose” and “specialize”. I loved the book because it helped me accept myself and my different interests. Scanners need to know that they are not alone but that there are many people out there with the same mindset.

I love the German title of the book even more than the English one: Du musst dich nicht entscheiden, wenn du 1000 Träume hast (You don’t have to choose if you have 1000 dreams).

This book tells the story of two people who live a good life and find cheese to eat easily every day in the same spot. One day the cheese disappeared. While one decides to go looking for new cheese the other one stays behind. The story is a metaphor for human life and the changes that happen. We can’t oppose change because change is the only constant in human life. We have two options to lead with change: either we complain about it and stay inactive, or we embrace it and work proactively towards finding new “cheese”. 

As the title already tells Mark Manson writes about how to give less fucks but how to give them for the things that really matter. What I liked about this book is that all the chapter titles are very counter-intuitive, like “happiness is overrated” or “you are probably always wrong” etc. But at the end of the chapter after the explanations, you understand what he means.

This is Mark Manson's second book where he goes much more into detail and gives even scientific evidence for a lot of things he mentioned in the first book. I really loved this book so much!

In this book psychologist, Jordan Petersen describes 12 rules for life and explains them in detail. Although I may not agree with everything written here 100% he has a good point on many topics and I leaned a lot from this book.

This book is about how to get the life you want and become the person you want to be. Jen Sincero explains the different steps you need to take.

The book is very inspiring and changed my perspective on psychology and behavior completely. It’s written as a conversation between a young unhappy man and a philosopher. The young man tries to blame all the bad things that happened in his life on his past. The philosopher explains that this is the theory of Sigmund Freud who says that our actions are determined by our past traumas. Then he presents another way to explain the man’s behavior – with Alfred Adler’s perspective. Opposite to Freud Adler’s theory says that our actions are determined by our future goals. Very very interesting.

Dieses Buch ist die Fortsetzung des ersten Buchs „The Courage to be disliked“ (auf Deutsch: Du musst nicht von allen gemocht werden). In diesem Buch trifft der junge Mann wieder auf den Philosophen und dieser erklärt die Theorie von Adler noch genauer. Vor allem wird erklärt, wie man diese Theorie im Alltag anwenden kann.

Gesetze der Gewinner ist ein praktisches Buch (fast wie ein Kurs). Es gibt 30 Kapital für 30 Tage – also jeden Tag sollte man ein Kapitel lesen und dazu dann Aufgaben bearbeiten. Es lohnt sich wirklich sehr – die Themen reichen von Entscheidungen über Ziele und Ängste.

Soul Master ist ein Buch, welches über die verschiedenen Bereiche des Lebens berichtet: Mindset, Gesundheit, Job, Geld, Liebe etc. Zu jedem Thema hat Maxim Mankevich seine größten Learnings zusammengefasst.  

In diesem Buch gibt Vera Birkenbihl 115 Tipps für ein besseres Leben. Diese sind in verschiedene Kategorien geteilt. Die meisten haben mit dem Job zu tun, es gibt aber auch einige zum Thema Beziehungen und Mindset.

Alexandra Reinwarth schreibt wie man sich Dinge „Am Arsch vorbei“ gehen lässt und wendet dies auch in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen an – für den Beruf, für den Bekanntenkreis etc. Es ist mit sehr viel Humor geschrieben.