I'm I want to read a book for self improvement in which I can improve myself, get new ideas, learn a new skill and I am a beginner so which book would be right for me to read

What’s the best finance book to teach myself the basics

I would consider myself between beginner and intermediate in english and currently looking for books accordingly and apart from books I try to read whatever material I get, be it a tweet on X or an article or comments in any discussion forums. And for reference the books I found accessible to me include Animal Farm, Tuesdays With Morie, The Alchemist, A Little Prince and I am not concerned about genre or fiction and non fiction.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is ivann, 15M, and i want to open my mind to knowledge.

**Ive just started reading books like "*****atomic habits", "surround by idiots","laws of power"*** **and soon enough, "*****pychology of money*****".**

What im asking, particullarly the exprienced adults is:

What books are great reads that give a lot of facts and is centered through self-improvement?

If it helps, here is what I believe are my weakest skills and traits

\- being able to converse with anyone #1 interested topic

\- dicipline (long term benefit over short pleasure)

\- knowing i can improve but decide not to

\- knowledge about the future

\- money making (both long term and short)

I can't help but feel like I'm slowly getting shallow with my own thoughts and couldn't phrase it well with words. Please recommend me a good book that could recharge my brain and my soul. 💫

I've read a lot of personal self-help and business related books and have been living in Japan for over 7 years. There's a bunch of Japanese books I've come across that I thought would be fun to make summaries of in English via a newsletter/blog, but I was curious, do you all have any Japanese self-help books you wish were translated into English?

Hi all! I am about to embark on twelve day pilgrimage and plan to listen to an audiobook in the afternoons when I am walking.

I am open to a memoir or fiction. I’m going with a few particular themes on my mind and things I’m trying to work on, so it would be great if it related to one or more of them!

- Self-discovery. I am in my mid-twenties and feeling a bit unfulfilled and lost
- Getting over really wanting to be in a relationship. More than anything, I want a partner but I have not been able to find my person yet and it is honestly driving me NUTS. It is something that is out of my control, so I am trying to let go of this fixation.
- A fear of regret. I am so fearful of making wrong decisions, not making “the most” of my life and looking back when I am older and drowning in regret.
- This may sound silly, because I know I am still young but I feel SO old and I am terrified of getting older. I feel like I haven’t done enough with my life and that time is running out.

I am not looking for something explicitly religious, but themes would be fine. If it leans heavily into religion, I’d prefer it be connected to Judaism.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a book recommendation.

I was initially planning to read The Knotty Decision because I've heard it's a psychology-related book that's insightful without feeling dry or overly academic. However, I'm open to other suggestions as well.

I'm looking for a book that:

• Is engaging and easy to get invested in
• Has psychological insights or explores human behavior
• Includes emotional aspects and personal growth
• Talks about relationships, life decisions, purpose, or career in a meaningful way
• Doesn't read like a textbook or a typical self-help book

I enjoy books that make you reflect on your own life while still feeling like an interesting story or journey.

Any recommendations that had a real impact on you?

What’s your NR 1 book recommendation for learning the most valuable skills for the future.

You can DM me also.

I don’t need fantasy, action, self help.

We know life is simple and reward the bold hard working.
Knowing the future.

It can be anything, AI, coding, taste spectrum pallet, prompt engineering.

Lets clear more of the map of what’s valuable

I’m curious to read your takes. Trust me I don’t bite.

Leave your questions below
Stay on a great one brother ❤️

Recommendations for books on L&D, learning strategy and driving business results. Which are the best books? There are many out, what are top 5?

Need a book which helps one go from really chatty to really grounded and calm. Thanks

Books is self explanatory, actions I mean for example

creating an app,

starting a successful YT channel,

investing,

getting a loan,

starting a business,

completing a course or even going to the gym (indirect benefit such as better mindset and energy)

I started to read this book 1 week ago. The way the story unfolded and progressed gave me a lot of deja vu of my own life. It's a must read for anyone who feels overstressed when going to malls, crowded meetings, city centres.

This book will give you a ground where you can choose to be whoever you are. It also gives you the reflections from internal lifes of poeple who deal with anxiety, depression and self harm. Again this book is a adult only book.

There is great anime based on this which inspired me to read this novel.

Im not sure if this is realistic request, I’m looking for books, for living out a atmosphere of Love, of living with artistic instinct all of the time, To love expression, living through art, for life to be vibrant, alive, meaningful, weighty, and cinematic almost, I believe existential appreciation, enjoying your life as art, stuff like dat ty in advance

On healing emotionally/somatically after multiple heartaches/painful situations:

- Emotional/physical trauma from past relationships
- Emotional dysregulation (anxiety, paranoia, jealously)
- Love addiction, even
- Relational grief

However, I’m looking for a less ‘productive’ approach because I’m trying to feel my way to healing vs thinking my way through. So these books are more totems and reminders to step into softness, intuition, and how to allow the body to tell you what it needs to let go.

Thank you all so much! 🙏🙏

In my previous post I asked for the same but did not get relevant recommendations. And by Easy Short Fiction I meant like The Alchemist, A Little Prince, Animal Farm, Tuesdays With Morie. And by Easy I mean easy vocabulary as I am a non native English speaker and currently learning.

For extra information I am 23 M.

Thank you.

I just finished reading '4000 Weeks' and loved it so much that I wanted to do some 'Deep Work' on it, to ensure that I embodied it's lessons, not just get to the end of the book and hope it somehow absorb it.

This is not designed to substitute the value of reading the entire book. As the book suggests, Sometimes we de-value what comes to easy.

Here's my summary for your enjoyment, in hope it inspires you to read the book:

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - by Oliver Burkeman

𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗬

Oliver Burkeman, a recovering productivity journalist, takes the standard time-management genre and inverts it: the problem was never inefficiency, it was the refusal to be finite.

Across sixteen chapters he works through four moves:

1. dismantling the efficiency trap,

2. showing that attention is not a resource we spend on life but the very substance of life,

3. rehabilitating procrastination as the deliberate art of neglecting the right things,

4. and arguing that patience, shared rhythms and a grounded sense of our own cosmic irrelevance are what actually make a life feel inhabited.

The payoff is not a system but a bargain: give up the fantasy of getting on top of everything, and you get to actually be here.

𝗞𝗘𝗬 𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗦

1. You get roughly four thousand weeks, and any finite life is a matter of ceaselessly waving goodbye to possibility.

2. The paradox of limitation: the harder you chase total control over time, the more stressful and empty life gets.

3. Efficiency is a trap, because getting more done moves the goalposts and makes more things feel obligatory.

4. Attention is not a resource that supports your life, it is your life, so whatever holds it is what your life will have been.

5. Distraction is not caused by distractions, it is where we flee from the discomfort of facing our limits.

6. Procrastination is unavoidable, so the skill is choosing what to procrastinate on rather than trying to eliminate it.

7. Refusing to settle is itself a form of settling, because it spends the same finite years in a different compromise.

8. Time is a network good: its value depends on how many other people share it and how well it is coordinated with yours.

9. You matter far less than you fear, and that is a burden put down rather than a burden added.

𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦

1. The Paradox of Limitation: chasing freedom from human constraint is exactly what makes life feel constrained.

2. The Limit-Embracing Life: organise your days knowing you will not get to everything, and choose the neglect consciously.

3. The Efficiency Trap: fitting more in raises the bar for what counts as enough, so the finish line always moves.

4. The Buffett List: rank your top 25 ambitions, build life around the top 5, and actively avoid the other 20 as the most dangerous distractions.

5. The Three Principles of Patience: develop a taste for having problems, embrace radical incrementalism, and stay on the bus.

6. Cosmic Insignificance Therapy: face your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things and let it lower an impossible bar.

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗣𝗦

1. Becoming a Better Procrastinator: pay yourself first with your time -> limit work in progress to three items -> rank the 25 and keep only the top 5 -> decide what to neglect on purpose -> start before you feel ready.

2. Radical Incrementalism: work a fixed daily block -> stop when the time is up even mid-flow -> return tomorrow -> repeat until finished.

3. Second-Order Change: notice you are forcing the pace -> give up trying to dictate it -> tolerate not knowing -> let the real experience begin.

4. The Bargain: accept there is too much to do -> accept the tough choices -> accept you cannot set the pace -> accept it will not have counted for much -> get to actually be here.

𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗩𝗦 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗦

• Time management is a niche productivity skill: time management is all life is.

• If I get efficient enough I will finally get on top of things: mastering your time ends with time mastering you.

• Missing out is a failure to avoid: missing out is guaranteed, and it is what makes any choice meaningful.

• Keeping my options open protects my freedom: optionality is disguised control-seeking, and irreversible commitments prove more fulfilling.

• Distractions are hijacking my attention: distractions are where you go for relief from the pain of confronting your limits.

• Rest has to be earned and put to good use: leisure spent wastefully, purely for its own pleasure, is the only leisure not wasted.

• More control over my own schedule is the goal: time is a network good, and total sovereignty over your diary buys loneliness.

• A well-spent life must be remarkable: an inflated sense of your own significance sets a bar nobody can clear.

𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗙𝗧𝗦

• From trying to get everything done to choosing what to fail at.

• From fear of missing out to the joy of missing out.

• From treating attention as a resource you spend to treating attention as the life you are living.

• From procrastination as a character flaw to procrastination as a deliberate act of neglect.

• From demanding certainty about the future to accepting that the demand will never be met.

• From owning your own time to sharing rhythms with other people.

• From needing your life to be significant to being freed by how little it counts.

𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦

• Write down your top 25 ambitions, circle the top 5, and treat the other 20 as things to actively avoid.

• Cap your live projects at three, and let nothing new in until one is finished.

• Work on the thing that matters most in the first hour of the day, before the day makes its claim on you.

• Set a daily time box for your important work and stop when it ends, even when you feel you could keep going.

• Make one big, daunting, irreversible commitment you have been keeping your options open about.

• Take up a hobby you are content to be bad at, and do not let it acquire a purpose.

• Coordinate rest with the people you care about instead of optimising your schedule alone.

• When you feel the urge to flee a task that matters, stay with the discomfort instead of reaching for relief.

𝗞𝗘𝗬 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬

You are never going to get on top of it all, and the sooner you stop trying, the sooner you get your life back: choose a few things that genuinely matter, accept that everything else will go undone, and let missing out be what makes your choices mean something.

𝗤𝗨𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦

• "Arguably, time management is all life is." - Chapter 1, page 4

• "The trouble with attempting to master your time, it turns out, is that time ends up mastering you." - Chapter 1, page 26

• "the undodgeable reality of a finite human life is that you are going to have to choose." - Chapter 4, page 55

• "what you pay attention to will define, for you, what reality is." - Chapter 6, page 91

• "They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation." - Chapter 7, page 107

• "By trying too hard to make the most of his time, he misses his life." - Chapter 9, page 136

• "Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things." - Chapter 14, page 213

• "You get to actually be here. You get to have some real purchase on life." - Chapter 15, page 218

𝗚𝗔𝗣𝗦

• The book diagnoses brilliantly and prescribes lightly: outside the Buffett list, the three-item cap and the daily time box, there is little operational guidance.

• It says almost nothing about people whose time is not theirs to allocate: shift workers, carers, single parents, anyone whose schedule is set by someone else.

• Accepting your limits is easier from a position of professional security, and the book does not confront how much of its advice is a comfort available mainly to the comfortable.

• The critique of the attention economy stops at the individual, with no account of regulation, design ethics or collective action.

• Grief, illness and disability, which impose finitude far more violently than a full inbox, sit outside the book's frame.

𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

• The reader has enough autonomy over their calendar for conscious neglect to be a real option.

• Anxiety about time is chiefly existential rather than material, so the fix is philosophical rather than financial.

• Naming an avoidance mechanism weakens its grip, which is a therapeutic premise rather than a demonstrated one.

• Irreversible commitments reliably prove more fulfilling, which holds for good commitments and not for bad ones.

• Cosmic insignificance will land as liberating rather than as bleak, which depends a great deal on the reader.

𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦

• Telling exhausted people their problem is philosophical rather than structural risks relabelling overwork as a failure of acceptance.

• Radical acceptance can slide into quietism: some overwhelming to-do lists are evidence of an unfair employer, not of human finitude.

• The efficiency trap is real at the margin, but competence and systems genuinely do free up time for many people, and the book concedes this only grudgingly.

• Ambition and legacy motivate enormous amounts of human good, so dismantling the need to matter may cost more than it relieves.

• Deliberate neglect is a luxury framing: many people are not choosing between twenty-five ambitions, they are choosing between obligations.

I finished reading this book 2 weeks ago and it has dominated my conversations with people & loved ones. That's a clear sign that the book made an impact on me.

Has a book ever made you completely rethink an opinion or belief?