This is the most practical, down-to-earth, yet inspiring book about learning that you're ever likely to find. Settle in for a masterclass in skill acquisition as Nick Velasquez shows you how to master anything you put your mind to.

Perfect for beginner readers, yet still profoundly impactful for book lovers who may be more experienced, Rise of the Reader is the ultimate guide for transforming information into life-changing results.

You haven't lost your ability to focus - it was stolen from you. In this book, you'll learn about the 12 contributing factors to declining attention spans across the world, who and what is behind them, and how you can reclaim your mind.

Human beings were never meant to read. Instead, the human brain had to REARRANGE ITSELF to be able to understand written symbols, and the successful completion of this fragile process is never guaranteed. Pick up this book if you want to learn more about the awesome miracle of reading.

Most people are studying incorrectly, using outdated methods and strategies that never really worked all that well in the first place. If you want practical, science-based study techniques whose effectiveness has been verified over and over again in the real world, then you need this book.

The Bureau of Prisons in states across America project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics. This book is about the state of reading in the digital age, and what we stand to lose.

Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. The hard part is that knowing what to do tells you nothing about what happens in your head when you try to do it! This million-copy bestseller can help.

Never before collected in one place, this book is a valuable repository of the transformative wisdom of investing icon Naval Ravikant. He shares everything he knows about wealth and happiness, as well as what he believes is one of the most important skills.

By wanting to become rich, you are also saying that you want to accept the challenge to be better at making money than 99 percent of the people on this planet. Just by attempting this, you are going to have to accept the fact that you must not just be good, you must be incredible. Are you ready?

Doing well in school has very little to do with how successful you become. In this new economy, the biggest factor in your success will not be abstract, academic learning but whether you develop the real-life success skills evinced by the people on these pages, and how early you do.

Spend less than you earn. Invest the surplus. Avoid debt. Could achieving financial independence really be that simple? Can you actually do this? Yes and yes. This book brings it all together and shows you the way.

This is a book that tells you what you need to know, not what you want to hear. By shattering your illusions of how you think the world SHOULD work, it will free you to understand how it actually DOES work, and how you can use this information in order to win.

If you want something you've never had before, you're going to have to do something you've never done before. The problem is that when we try to do this, our minds actively resist the change in an effort to remain comfortable. This book will show you how to move past that and create lasting success.

The universe follows a natural order and the law of cause and effect. If you wish to produce certain effects in your life - i.e., earning money - then you must repeat the natural causes. This book will help you identify them and put them to use in getting rich.

Net worth is out; net fulfillment is in. It makes exactly zero sense working to make money that you'll never spend or enjoy, and what matters most in life is to maximize your fulfillment from experiences, not stacking up wads of cash that you'll be too old and sick to spend.

In this book, personal development legend Brian Tracy teaches you how to establish winning habits that will lead inevitably to the success and fulfillment you desire, while helping you actualize the potential you may never have known you had.

In this book, you'll get a world-class business education for about $200,000 less than going to business school. You'll learn the universal principles behind every successful business, then use these ideas to make more money, get more done, and have more fun in your life and work.

An extraordinary life is won on offense and then preserved on defense. This book is about increasing your offensive capacity and about creating an income that will enable you to live free forever. The creator economy is booming right now, entrepreneurship is “hot,” and our time is now.

In this book, the eccentric entrepreneur Dan S. Kennedy shares the extreme time management strategies he uses personally to run his multimillion-dollar company while successfully safeguarding his schedule and his sanity.

By teaching you the beliefs, habits, thoughts, and actions that the authors have used to build eighteen multimillion-dollar companies, you'll come away from this book with the specific tools and mental strategies you need to build your dream business.

In the book that many call "How to Win Friends and Influence People for the 21st-Century," serial entrepreneur Joe Polish, "the most connected businessman on the planet," distills his absolute best advice for creating and sustaining win-win relationships that last a lifetime.

Your potential for success and achievement is limited by the size and strength of your network. Moreover, in today's hyper-connected, fast-moving world, the most valuable currency is social capital, goodwill, and attention. This book will show you how to get it.

Your success and happiness in life depend in large part on your ability to get others to see things your way. This book is a masterclass in persuasion that, once downloaded into your brain, will enable you to get everything you've ever wanted...and defend against what you don't want.

Those who work together, win together, and this “helping” thing isn’t just “a nice thing to do,” but it's actually the way that wealth and success are created in the modern economy. This book will show you how to get what you want by helping others get what THEY want.

The greatest Grand Masters in chess plan many, many moves ahead, and the best players in the game of life tend to do the same thing. That's what The Long Game is all about. Multiply your success in all areas of life with this success toolkit from a world expert in leadership.

Find a "Who" for every "How," and unlock levels of creativity, achievement, and financial wealth that would have been unbelievable before you implemented the principles contained within this book.

Many hidden psychological forces secretly direct our lives, and the relentless drive for status, virtue, and prestige is one of the most powerful. In this book, you'll learn about the giant social game that we're all playing, its rules, its possibilities, and its deadly consequences.

Modern consumer capitalism is all about making us believe that we need something else - something that, by definition, we don't already have - to display our underlying traits and signal to others that we would make attractive mates and relationship partners. But what if there's a better way?

Is conflict unavoidable in modern society? Is violence to be accepted as just a part of life in today's world? In this book, one of the most explosive and thought-provoking philosophical teachers who ever lived holds up a mirror to our inner lives and calls us to imagine a different path forward.

Who controls your desires? In this book, you will learn how we can transform our relationship with desire in order to step into our full humanity, relate to each other more harmoniously, and intelligently select our desires in such a way that we enlarge ourselves, rather than diminish ourselves.

Does constant exposure to human pain and misery dull our sensitivity and compassion? What does viewing these images do to our worldview, sense of responsibility, and commitment to take action? The brilliant essayist Susan Sontag tackles those questions and others in this profoundly moving book.

Regret may be our most misunderstood - and yet also our most valuable - emotion. In this book, Daniel Pink explores how we can tap into its power and wisdom and use it to help us live differently, and better, from this day forward.

Most people are not NEARLY as alive and awake as they COULD be. This classic book teaches why waking up is much closer and easier than you might think. You'll also learn to experience the gorgeous reality of everyday life that was always available if you only had eyes to see.

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still; if I think I am going to achieve stillness at some future date, I have destroyed the possibility of stillness. It is now or never. But we are all thinking of heaven in terms of time.”

If you've ever felt as though there's more to life than the relentless pursuit of money, success, and fame - you're right. There is. But even if you DO climb to the top of that first mountain and get everything you're supposed to want, your real climb awaits you on the "second mountain."

A devastating crisis of meaning inspired Paul Millerd and many others to escape corporate slavery and build a real life for themselves in a universe teeming with more possibilities than could ever be imagined. This book is a call to adventure for you to join them.

“Every little action you take toward your Future Self enhances your level of commitment and knowing. Every little action toward your Future Self is the evidence of your faith. Every little action toward your Future Self is you more fully being your Future Self now."

From a jail cell at age 19, charged with felony grand theft, to running the largest personal development website in the world (with more than 2 million monthly visitors), Steve Pavlina has come a long way. This book contains the collected wisdom of a lifetime of exponential growth - and it's yours.

This is, pound-for-pound, one of the wisest, most genuinely and authentically helpful books ever written, and it's just FULL of simple, profound mental models and sage advice to help guide your decisions and move you toward where you want to be in life.

The urge to BE somebody is causing tremendous conflict, as people the world over desperately try to assert their specialness. But what if there's a better way to live, one that brings us together instead of pulling us apart? Why can't we be happy being NOBODY? After all, nobody's perfect!

This book will make you stand up straighter with pride in humanity, as Dr. Kaufman uses the latest research from humanistic psychology to show how we are valuable beyond measure.

In this book about how to live a full life, an intellectual giant in the field of psychology deals with the grief of losing his wife of 65 years, reflects on their life together, and shows us all how we can live without regret.

The controversial spiritual teacher Krishnamurti once proclaimed that "Truth is a pathless land," and that Truth is always new. In this book, he asks more questions than he gives answers, but he provides hints as to where Truth can be found and why the mind can never find it.

In this award-winning nonfiction account of the scourge of homelessness in the USA, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond takes to the field and follows eight families in Milwaukee as they battle the indignities and hardships of being poor in 21st-century America.

In America, if you're not rich, you have to wait longer for basic medical care, your children will go to worse schools, you'll wait in longer lines, and you'll be denied everything except the second-best of anything. This thoughtful, honest book explains how this reality came to be.

This is a collection of 500+ aphorisms that are like lightning bolts to your prefrontal cortex, challenging you to reconsider your received opinions about life, love, money, religion, and everything else that we can't stop thinking about.

In this business classic, one of the biggest breakout entrepreneurial success stories of the modern era lays out his personal playbook for how you can out-think, out-plan, and out-execute your competition in the fight they never even saw coming.

The story of humanity is really the story of human beings selling themselves short. In this book, however, the hero of one of the most inspiring entrepreneur success stories ever, Patrick Bet-David, lays out a roadmap you can follow on your way to "impossible."

Vision. Overwhelming self-belief. And a sickening work ethic. These qualities and more helped Arnold Schwarzenegger climb the peak of three of the most difficult fields in the world to succeed in. His book shows you how you can climb too.

John Wooden's basketball teams won 10 championships in 12 years, including an 88-game winning streak, but he NEVER talked about winning. Instead, this legendary leader spoke about Competitive Greatness achieved through EFFORT, and how we can all aspire to it.

Everything that most people believe about self-discipline is wrong. In this book, through inspiring stories and using fundamental truths and hard-won insights, Ryan Holiday illustrates the true power of self-discipline to shape our destinies.

In this book, retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink shows you how to declare martial law on your own mind, and how to bring more of your potential out of yourself than anyone thought you ever had inside - including you.

Olympic performance coach Steve Magness reimagines the very idea of mental toughness in this future classic about the true potential of people everywhere to rise above their circumstances and reach personal greatness.

Positive thinking can work sometimes. Negative thinking works negatively 100 percent of the time. But what about NEUTRAL thinking? Could it be the key to world-class performance?

In this book, one of the world's most sought-after experts on elite performance lays out 13 key principles for winning at the highest levels in sports and business. He trained Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and hundreds of others, so he should know! This is what winning looks like.

Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our habits, and our habits become our realities. But even if you agree that healthy habits are the key to upgrading your reality, how do you lock in lasting change? Easy! Start with this book!

Do you feel as though your highest potential still lies undeveloped, repressed within yourself? As though society's mold is stifling and oppressive? Colin Wilson's introduction to Gurdjieff will shock you into full aliveness.

Colin Wilson believes that most people are like great big jet airplanes, yet they're living as though they're flying on just one engine. In this book, he takes aim at the pessimistic outlook of so many philosophers and shows us how we can shock ourselves into full aliveness and joy.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

If ordinary life usually seems a bit...well, ordinary...it may be because the way most human beings live their lives can be compared to an extraordinarily powerful jet airplane flying on only one engine.

You can learn just as much (if not more) about yourself at the gym than inside any classroom. In this book, entrepreneur and world health and fitness expert Mike Matthews shows that you have more inside of you left to give, and offers you the tools you need to bring it out.

In the modern world, we have so many low-level chronic stressors that our response system is always on in the background, wearing us down. What evolved to protect us is now killing us. This book will help you de-stress and reclaim YEARS of your life.

You fear getting older, but you want to live a long time! How does one reconcile that? In this book, one of the leading figures of the Roman Empire explains why old age can be among the best years of your life, and how you can prepare to live them well.

Forced to commit suicide by a psychopathic dictator, the great Stoic philosopher Seneca never once abandoned his belief that we can maintain our peace of mind in any situation. And in this book, he shows us how it's done.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but if you travel a mile in a thousand different directions, you'll never end up anywhere. The ONE Thing is about taking massive action on your most important work and traversing those 1,000 miles in record time.

Discerning the "vital few" from the "trivial many" is going to be one of the most in-demand skills in the economy of the future, and those who can do this well are going to reap the majority of the rewards, while the rest of us are drowning in distraction.

Habits are the levers by which you control your own future; they are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. Read this book if you want to take control of that process.

“The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short...But you? Assuming you live to be eighty, you’ll have had about four thousand weeks.” In this book, we're reminded that the point of managing time isn't to "do," but to show up, alive, in a world that's bursting with wonder.

Against all the forces conspiring to steal your focus and attention, this book provides 87 strategies you can use to fight back. Not only that, but you'll also learn a 4-step strategy for reclaiming your time and energy so you can direct it toward what really matters.

When you stop measuring yourself against an impossible ideal and start recognizing how much progress you've already made and how far you've come, success and happiness can be yours today. As explained in this book breakdown, there is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Go through life at "world-class." Don't settle for anything less than excellence in all that you do, say, and have. Raise your standards, work hard for your vision, and enjoy your rise to the top. This book will help you get there.

Success has causes, and if you want the "effect" of success, you have to repeat the causes, again and again and again. Moreover, lasting success is never an accident. This book will teach you how to become the cause of your own success, and how to extract as much value from every day as you possibly can.

Learn from legendary music producer Rick Rubin about deepening and strengthening your creative instincts, producing great work, and discovering your authentic self through artistic expression.

In this wise and stirring little book, Steven Pressfield, the "patron saint" of artists and creatives everywhere, lights two fires. One, he ignites underneath us to get us moving in the direction of our greatest ambitions. The second, he lights ahead of us to show us the path to get there.

“If the whole world were to appear to mortals now, for the first time; if it was suddenly and unexpectedly exposed to their view; what could one think of more marvelous than these things, and which mankind would less have dared to believe?"

“Who controls your cortex? Who decides on the range and limits of your awareness? If you want to research your own nervous system, expand your consciousness, who is to decide that you can’t and why?”

You didn't come INTO this world...you came OUT of it. What you do is something that the universe is "doing," in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing. Isn't that spectacular? Discover even more secrets of the universe in this classic book.

“Focused attention on the transcendent is the point of unity and can be achieved by everyone who is serving any social function whatsoever, thereby achieving equality with everyone.”

If you left university with just a degree and a pile of debt, you were robbed. Universities today often force students to choose between learning and success - but it doesn't have to be this way.

When you look at the present, from the perspective of the future, as if it were the past, you see that there are, more than likely, many things that we believe today that will be disproven tomorrow. But today, from our current perspective, we simply have no idea what these could be.

If you've ever wondered whether there is more to life than what most people naturally assume there is, or if you are perpetually unsatisfied with the easy answers that society often offers you and with the rules that cannot be questioned, then this entrancing philosophy book is for you.

Can anger ever bring about positive change? Are the inequities in our justice system built-in, or are they exacerbated by our flawed concepts of honor and punishment? Fearless philosopher Martha Nussbaum faces down these questions and more in this book.

The larger-than-life story of Napoleon Bonaparte introduces epic strategies for shaping our own life stories as well. Through this dramatic story of Napoleon's rise and fall, you'll learn timeless lessons on leadership, heroism, and, most importantly, massive action.

For more than 50 years, Fred Rogers brought his message of care, affection, and unconditional love and acceptance to millions of children in America and all over the world. But there's more to his story. Much more. And it's finally told here in this book!

“True love aims to bring out the goodness in another person, and then to produce goodness that goes beyond that particular individual and makes an impact that lasts beyond one's own lifetime."

“Even the Stoic wise man, therefore, may tremble in the face of danger. What matters is what he does next. He exhibits courage and self-control precisely by accepting these feelings, rising above them, and asserting his capacity for reason.”

Zorba the Greek is one of the most powerful, life-affirming books you’re ever likely to come across, and I don’t think that anyone who is somewhat alive and breathing can read this book and sit still. Read this breakdown and let Zorba teach you how to love life, and not to fear death.

“No single instant of it was unendurable. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering.”

This powerful novel about an uncompromising young architect who willingly sacrifices everything for his ultimate vision has inspired more than 9,000,000 people to defy convention, relentlessly pursue what they want, and never, ever, EVER give in.

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”