New Year Resolutions
Last updated: May 15, 2024
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman -
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Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
by Beth Pickens -
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Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab -
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The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
by Martha Beck -
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Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection
by Julia Cameron
The Best Self Help Books of 2021, recommended by Emma Gannon
The Best Self Help Books of 2021, recommended by Emma Gannon
Lockdowns have forced many of us to pause and consider the way we are living our lives, says the podcaster and bestselling author Emma Gannon. Here she highlights five of the best self help books published in 2021, with a special focus on creativity and setting better boundaries to safeguard our time and energy.
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The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder
by Richard Rohr -
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Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage
by Philip Goldberg -
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How to Be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy
by Beverley Clack -
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The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
by Adam Davidson -
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The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home
The Best Self Help Books of 2020, recommended by Oliver Burkeman
The Best Self Help Books of 2020, recommended by Oliver Burkeman
We asked Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian writer and author of The Antidote, to select the best self help books published in 2020. His recommended titles include spiritual guidance for the age of doomscrolling, a philosophy of failure, and practical advice for those working from home for the first time.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb -
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Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It
by David Zahl -
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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
by David Brooks -
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In Search of Silence
by Poorna Bell -
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This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
by Martin Hägglund
The Best Self-Help Books of 2019, recommended by Oliver Burkeman
The Best Self-Help Books of 2019, recommended by Oliver Burkeman
The self-help genre is sometimes dismissed as simplistic or over-earnest. But, at their best, self-help books offer powerful insights into how to live. Oliver Burkeman, the Guardian columnist and author of The Antidote, recommends five of the best self-help books published in 2019.
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
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BrainChains: Your Thinking Brain Explained in Simple Terms
by Theo Compernolle -
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande -
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly -
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The Antidote
by Oliver Burkeman
The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen
The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen
If you feel like you lose whole days to procrastination or indecision—or simply have too much to do!—you probably want advice on how improve your productivity. We spoke to David Allen, creator of the perennial bestseller Getting Things Done, about the best books on the subject: why we waste time, and what we can change to be more productive.