Ten books that help us to live

I want to talk about the books that have helped me. Maybe they will help you too. We can discuss them or talk about the books that have helped you.

Brian Tracy
Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
The author of this book knows about the success very much. He writes about success, he lectures about success, he meets with successful people. Finally, he is a very successful person himself. Meanwhile, he was not always successful. He marched his way to success and proved that anyone can learn it. We teach foreign languages, we learn to drive a car, in childhood we learn to walk. Similarly, we can learn to be successful.

Napoleon Hill
Think & Grow Rich
I think this author and this book is well known. On the other hand, it is impossible not to mention them. Napoleon Hill studied the biographies of rich people for many years. He discovered the laws of wealth. But his books tell not only about wealth. His books tell us about life. Our thoughts have great power. Our imagination has a great power. We has tremendous power. And we can use that power every day.

Sheila Dainow
Be Your Own Counsellor: A Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding Yourself
The scientific studies have proven that people who used this book, got the same results as people who visited a psychotherapist. Don't you believe? Then you just need to try. The book describes very useful exercises that psychoanalysts and other professionals often offer their patients. The uniqueness of this book is that you can read it from any Chapter. If you need psychological help, read this book.

Susan Jeffers
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
This book honestly and frankly tell you about the fear. We are afraid to live and afraid to die, we are afraid to win and afraid to lose, we are afraid to start and afraid to finish. But fear is normal. If you know how to control your fear, if you know how to use it, you live and enjoy life. This book teaches us not afraid of our fears.
In addition, the author talks about the unique practical recommendations for changing our life. Try to change your life, this book will help you with this.

Bill Newman
Soaring With Eagles
Are you tired? Are you frustrated? You don't believe in yourselves? You need strong motivation. This book will give you that. You will feel that you can fly. You will feel that you become stronger. You will feel that your life is beautiful.

Maxwell Maltz
Psycho Cybernetics
You will learn a lot of amazing things, you will see many familiar things in new ways. You will understand what and how you need to change in your life. You will find many inspiring examples and many practical exercises. On the pages of this book there is a programme of changes designed specially for you. Open the first page. Changes begin!

Win Wenger
The Einstein Factor
Sometimes we hesitate to ask about something. Sometimes we don't ask about something very important. Sometimes it is a very big mistake. Have you ever compared himself to geniuses? This book will help you do that. Sometimes it is very useful. After all, if we have small target we can't achieve great success.

Paul R. Scheele
Natural Brilliance
Each person is unique. Every person has unique talents. Every person can and should strive for self-realization. Our problem is not that we have no abilities, but we do not use them. Read this book to become more unique.

Edward de Bono
Six Thinking Hats
Do you want to start a new life? In this case, you should learn to think in a new way. Our thoughts are the Foundation of our life. Change your Foundation and you will change your life. Look at any problem from different points of view. Put off one thinking hat and put on another thinking hat. It's very exciting!

Valentina Knurova
Finding Yourself in the Town of Geniuses: Climbing the Road to Self Realization
Do you love adventure? This book is a fascinating journey through the world of geniuses, where the characters encounter a variety of puzzles. Do you like biographical books? This book will tell you about the life and work of tens of geniuses (writers, scientists, composers, politicians, etc.). Are you looking for the secret of success? Geniuses will tell you how to solve problems, overcome life difficulties and achieve outstanding results.

The dictionary, because I never cease amazing how many new thoughts actually exist when I find a word I never knew of.

The complete works of Shakespeare, because it's a book I'll turn to from time to time for the rest of my life. I turn to random pages and find outstanding quotes.

The Qur'an and Islamic State Twitter accounts, because in a globalised world you can't understand what motivates much of the world to act and think the way it does without understanding Islam. Islam will become the world's largest religion soon and is adhered to far more zealously than Christianity is, so unlike Buddhism or Christianity it can't be ignored.

I agree. It is a good addition. I think everyone can continue this list for his taste. I used only books associated with psychology.

This is a great idea for a thread. Literature is a wonderful antidote to depression. When I feel my mood dropping I often read out loud from my favourite works.

The following are my 'emergency reading':

Oscar Wilde's 'De Profundis': A long letter written by Wilde while he was in prison. Wilde had hit the depths of pain and suffering, losing his career, reputation, friends and even his mother during his incarceration. While in there, he wrote a long letter to Bosie, his young aristocratic lover. It begins with lots of bitter accusations, but later softens, becoming reflective and philosophical and ending with Wilde telling Bosie what he has learnt about the value of suffering and how much he is looking forward to the simple pleasures of life.

Wodehouse's 'Right Ho Jeeves': Read this out loud and it will dispel any gathering clouds. Wodehouse was quite simply a genius. It doesn't surprise me when people cpmare his mastery of the English langauge to that of Shakespeare or Dickens. About midway through this novel there is a chapter in which the normally meek Augustus Fink Nottle gets drunk and takes part in a prize giving ceremony at the local school. That short passage is the greatest piece of comic writing you will ever read. If there is anything funnier, please, please let me know. Wodehouse has sometimes been dismissed as an upper class twit or perpetual adolescent. But I disagree. I think Wodehouse simply had a fundamentally innocent/ comic view of the world. He saw it differently to the rest of us. And reading him is like putting on a pair of glasses with bright, yellow lenses. He transforms everything into light and humor.

Aldous Huxley 'Crome Yellow': Beautifully written and bursting with brilliant ideas, conversation, and wit. For my money this is Huxley's best work and one that has been very nearly forgotten.

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