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Transitions by William Bridges: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
Every change has three stages: an ending, a confusing neutral zone, and a new beginning. Most people skip the first two.
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The Defining Decade by Meg Jay: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
Your twenties are not a throwaway decade. A clinical psychologist on why they matter and how to use them.
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What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Bolles: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
Updated yearly since 1970, the job-hunting manual that insists you figure out who you are before you look at listings.
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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
Stanford’s most popular elective in book form: use design thinking to prototype a life instead of planning one.
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Wishcraft by Barbara Sher: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
The 1979 book that turned goal setting from corporate exercise into a human process of figuring out what you actually want.
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The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
Bristol’s 1948 argument that belief, deliberately cultivated through repetition and mental pictures, drives achievement.
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The Go-Getter by Peter B. Kyne: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
It shall be done. A 1921 story about a veteran who refuses to let any obstacle stop him from delivering a blue vase.
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Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
The famous lecture about the man who sold his farm to search the world for diamonds that were buried under his own fields.
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Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
Twelve lessons from the dean of personal development on attitude, goals, service and the habit of thinking.
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The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale: What It Teaches, Who It’s For, Who Should Skip It
We become what we think about. Nightingale’s 1956 recording, the first spoken-word record to go gold, in print.
