41 Of The Best Self-Help Books of All Time (Audio)
41 Of The Best Self-Help Books of All Time (Audio)
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Genre: Self-Help, Self-Improvement
English | Mp3 @ 64/128 kbps | Large Audiobooks Collection | 9.91 Gb
Genre: Self-Help, Self-Improvement
Self-help, or self-improvement, is a self-guided improvement economically, intellectually, or emotionally often with a substantial psychological basis. Many different self-help groupings exist and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders. "Self-help culture, particularly Twelve-Step culture, has provided some of our most robust new language: recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency."
Self-help often utilizes publicly available information or support groups, on the Internet as well as in person, where people in similar situations join together. From early examples in self-driven legal practice and home-spun advice, the connotations of the word have spread and often apply particularly to education, business, psychology and psychotherapy, commonly distributed through the popular genre of self-help books. According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, potential benefits of self-help groups that professionals may not be able to provide include friendship, emotional support, experiential knowledge, identity, meaningful roles, and a sense of belonging.
Groups associated with health conditions may consist of patients and caregivers. As well as featuring long-time members sharing experiences, these health groups can become lobby groups and clearing-houses for educational material. Those who help themselves by learning about health problems can be said to exemplify self-help, while self-help groups can be seen more as peer-to-peer support.
Within classical antiquity, Hesiod's Works and Days "opens with moral remonstrances, hammered home in every way that Hesiod can think of." The Stoics offered ethical advice "on the notion of eudaimonia - of well-being, welfare, flourishing." The genre of mirror-of-princes writings, which has a long history in Greco-Roman and Western Renaissance literature, represents a secular cognate of Biblical wisdom-literature. Proverbs from many periods, collected and uncollected, embody traditional moral and practical advice of diverse cultures.
The hyphenated compound word "self-help" often appeared in the 1800s in a legal context, referring to the doctrine that a party in a dispute has the right to use lawful means on their own initiative to remedy a wrong.
For some, George Combe's "Constitution[1828], in the way that it advocated personal responsibility and the possibility of naturally sanctioned self-improvement through education or proper self-control, largely inaugurated the self-help movement;" In 1841, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, entitled Compensation, was published suggesting "every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults" and "acquire habits of self-help" as "our strength grows out of our weakness." Samuel Smiles (1812 1904) published the first self-consciously personal-development "self-help" book entitled Self-Help in 1859. Its opening sentence: "Heaven helps those who help themselves", provides a variation of "God helps them that help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that had also appeared previously in Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733-1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's remarkable success as a self-help author" further developed the genre with How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. Having failed in several careers, Carnegie became fascinated with success and its link to self-confidence, and his books have since sold over 50 million copies. Earlier in 1902 James Allen published As a Man Thinketh, which proceeds from the conviction that "a man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts." Noble thoughts, the book maintains, make for a noble person, whilst lowly thoughts make for a miserable person; and Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich (1937) described the use of repeated positive thoughts to attract happiness and wealth by tapping into an "Infinite Intelligence".
Dr Neville Yeomans, an Australian psychiatrist, clinical sociologist, psychologist and barrister pioneered self-help and mutual help in Australia through his pioneering work at Australia's first therapeutic community Fraser House (1959 1968), an 80-bed residential unit in North Ryde Sydney; and former inmates of this unit started many self-help groups around Sydney.
At the start of the 21st century, "the self-improvement industry, inclusive of books, seminars, audio and video products, and personal coaching, said to constitute a 2.48-billion dollars-a-year industry" in the United States alone. By 2006, research firm Marketdata estimated the "self-improvement" market in the U.S. as worth more than $9 billion including infomercials, mail-order catalogs, holistic institutes, books, audio cassettes, motivation-speaker seminars, the personal coaching market, weight-loss and stress-management programs. Marketdata projected that the total market size would grow to over $11 billion by 2008. In 2012 Laura Vanderkam wrote of a turnover of 12 billion dollars. In 2013 Kathryn Schulz examined "an $11 billion industry".
Books List:
- Dale Carnegie - How To Story Worrying And Start Living
- Napoleon Hill - Keys To Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement (Think and Grow Rich)
- Stephen Covey - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends And Influence People
- Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
- Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
- Spencer Johnson - Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power
- Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
- Tony Robbins - Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
- Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
- Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
- Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
- Deepak Chopra - The Spontaneous Fulfillment Of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence
- The Dalai Lama - The Art of Happiness: a Handbook for Living
- Mihaly Csikszentmihaly - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
- Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen - The Aladdin Factor
- Tony Robbins - Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement
- Mark Victor Hansen - The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth
- Martin Seligman - Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
- Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
- Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers: The Story of Success
- Jill Bolte Taylor - My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist s Personal Journey
- Lynne McTaggart - The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
- Deepak Chopra - Buddha: A Story of Englightenment
- Jon Kabat-Zinn - Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life
- Daniel Gilbert - Stumbling on Happiness
- David Allen - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- Geoff Colvin - Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
- Stephen Covey - First Things First
- Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
- Nicholas Boothman - How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds
- Neil Fiore - The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
- Robert Kiyosaki - The Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
- NLP Comprehensive - The New Technology of Achievement
- James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy: : An Experiential Guide
- Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Douglas Stone - Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters
- Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha