Best Personal Development Books

Self-made success coach Jen Sincero delivers a no-nonsense, profanity-laced guide to identifying the self-limiting beliefs that keep you broke, bored, and unhappy, and replacing them with confidence and action.

Robin Sharma presents the 20/20/20 formula for the first hour of the day — 20 minutes of intense exercise, 20 minutes of reflection and planning, 20 minutes of learning — through a motivational story of a billionaire mentor.

Gretchen Rubin spends a year methodically testing happiness-boosting strategies in twelve monthly themes — from decluttering to friendship to spirituality — and reporting what actually works.

Byron Katie presents The Work — a four-question inquiry method that dismantles stressful thoughts and reveals the peace that remains when we stop arguing with reality.

Eric Ries argues that startups can shorten their product development cycles and discover what customers actually want through validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases. The Lean Startup changed how the world builds companies.

How to launch a freedom business — earning a good living from something you love — with minimal startup capital.

Gay Hendricks identifies the hidden self-sabotage patterns that cap our success and happiness, and offers a practical path to living and working in our Zone of Genius.

David Schwartz argues that the size of your success is determined by the size of your belief — and provides practical techniques for cultivating bigger thinking in every area of life.

A provocative argument that optimizing for maximum wealth accumulation is the wrong goal — that the aim should be to use your money to create maximum life experiences before you die.