35 Personal Development Books That Anyone Who Wants to Improve Theirself Should Read

Personal Development Books | one

“Actually, the expression on a person’s face was much more important than the clothes they wore.”

“Benjamin Franklin, known for his frankness and indiscretion in his youth, learned to use diplomacy in human relations and became so adept at this skill that they appointed him as America’s ambassador to France. What was the secret of his success? Franklin said, “I don’t speak ill of anyone, I always say they are the best known to all.” “Even a fool can criticize, blame, complain, and that’s how many fools behave. But it takes a solid personality and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Personal Development Books | 2nd

“Where everyone thinks alike, no one thinks too much.”

“Psychological wings show that our feelings about something are formed seconds before we have thoughts about it. I think the message from the bottom of the heart is pure and simple emotion. So if we train ourselves to be mindful, we notice the emotion before we think. “Would I have made the same choice?” he should look for the first emotion he feels and pay attention to it. It will be a signal from the bottom of his heart and it will surface before he can deceive himself.”

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“The intuitive mind is a divine gift, the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and forgets the gift.”

“Perception is also a kind of choice. Filtering information is mostly for the benefit of the individual. But the actual capacity of the brain to realize this makes the distortion of what is allowed and denied for “awareness” open to criticism. Thus, each person can direct the acceptance or rejection of their own sensory signals. Directing our attention has profound implications. As William James said, “My life is the life I am willing to deal with. And only the parts that I become aware of shape my mind.” And William James adds: “Without selective attention, life would be complete chaos.” For James, attention is an act of desire and will. So what is acceptable to pay attention to consciously? “It is a choice that decides what to do. For Freud, attention is shaped by forces in the unconscious mind. This is outside the reach of conscious choices.”

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“I think you’re looking for answers to questions you couldn’t ask without knowing what questions to ask.”

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“What you believe, you live.”

“A magnetic piece of iron can lift twelve times its own weight. But if you take the magnetic property of that piece of iron, it cannot lift even a feather. Likewise, there are two types of people. The magnetized people are full of confidence and belief. They know that they are born to succeed and win. Others are not magnets. They are filled with fear and doubt. When faced with an opportunity, they think, “What if I fail? I might lose money. People will make fun of me.” If you discover and use the secret, you too can become magnetized.”

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“Smart people are generally impatient, because the more knowledge one has, the more impatience with fools one becomes.”

“Esteem quickly accomplishes what the intellect slowly thinks about. Haste is the failure of fools because they don’t know the point and go off-putting. On the other hand, the wise fail because they delay taking action too long; foresight requires deliberation, and delayed action often takes quick decisions. Speed is the mother of good luck. He who leaves no work for tomorrow will always go further. Festine lente* is a kingly principle. Festina lente means ‘hurry slowly’.”

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“We say, ‘What are you laughing at like crazy,’ or in fact, 90% of people with psychological problems frown. If you have nothing on your mind, smile, everyone wonders, ‘What are you thinking?’ Smiling is a sign of intelligence.”

“Years ago, while working at the hospital, they brought a seriously ill girl. His only chance of survival was an emergency blood transfusion from his five-year-old brother. The little boy miraculously recovered from the same illness and his blood had immunity that destroyed the germs of that disease. The doctor explained the situation to the five-year-old boy and gave blood to his older sister. The little boy hesitated for a moment. Then he took a deep breath and said, “I will give my blood if he will be saved.” As the blood transfusion progressed, he was looking into his sister’s eyes and smiling. The girl’s cheeks were starting to turn color again, but the little boy’s face was fading. He also disappeared. He asked the doctor in a trembling voice: “Will I die immediately?” The little boy misunderstood the doctor, thought that he would die by giving all the blood in his body to his sister, but he gave his blood nevertheless.”

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“Truth should be written on your face, understood by your voice, shining in your eyes.”

“When you want your enjoyment to be fulfilled, think of the good qualities of the people around you. For example, think of one’s energy, another’s prudence, another’s generosity, another’s other trait. Nothing is as beautiful as the virtues of the people around us reflected in their character, especially if it all comes together. “

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“The first impulse comes from the heart, not the head.”

“Question: How could someone so highly intelligent be able to do such an irrational stupid thing? Answer: Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The smartest people among us can be the slaves of passions they can’t control, impulses they can’t control; high IQ People with ‘can manage their private lives astonishingly poorly.

Personal Development Books | 10

“If you’re asked to sweep the streets, sweep the streets as Michelangelo wrote a painting, Beethoven wrote a song, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep so well that everyone will stop and say, ‘Here lives a very good garbage man.'”

“People are afraid of being loved because they don’t feel worthy of being loved.
He is afraid to think, because it will bring responsibility.
She is afraid to speak out because she is afraid of being criticized.
She is afraid to express her feelings because she is afraid of rejection.
Afraid of getting old, to know the value of youth.
He was afraid of being forgotten, becayse the world wouldnt give anything good.
And he’s afraid of dying because he didn’t live to the fullest.”

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“Practice isn’t something you do after you’ve gotten to a good point. It’s something you do to get you to a good point.”

“Because we personalize success so deeply, we miss out on opportunities to take others to the highest rung. We cause rules to hinder success. We condemn people to failure from the start. We overly admire those who succeed and overly disregard those who fail. We cling to the idea that it has a function and that the world we all grow up in and the rules we write as a society don’t matter.”

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“Why is success so ephemeral? Because the ego shortens its lifespan. We stop learning and listening. We become victims of competition and of ourselves.”

“In his famous work, Ethics, Aristotle uses the analogy of a crooked piece of wood to describe human nature. An experienced carpenter applies gentle pressure in the opposite direction of the bend to straighten wood’s curvatures. And a thousand years later, Kant said: ‘Man’s corrupt material cannot be straightened. ‘”

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“They could see the forest, but they were not aware that the forest is made up of individual trees…”

“Based on an analysis of the habits of extraordinary artists, neurologist Daniel Levitin has calculated that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of training to become a truly world-class artist, musician or athlete. He stressed that it applies to everyone, including those considered gifted. The Beatles, chess player Bobby Fisher, Bill Gates… All of them sacrificed almost similar time in their chosen field before reaching the mastery level.”

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“Indecision is the root cause of failure.”

“Before success comes into a person’s life, it is certain that one will encounter temporary defeats and perhaps failures. When failure takes over a person, the easiest and most logical way seems to be to give up. That’s what most people do. (…) Avoid tripping when success is almost tangible. takes great pleasure in it.”

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“Don’t take life so seriously that it makes you forget to laugh.”

“You can never hit a goal you can’t see. People spend their entire lives dreaming of living a happier, more fulfilling life in the pursuit of prosperity. But they fail to grasp the importance of spending ten minutes a month to meditate on their life purpose, the true meaning of their life, and write down their goals. Setting goals is a wonderful thing in your life.” Your world will become richer, a more pleasurable, magical place.”

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“The life you live now is a reflection of your past thoughts.”

“Your life is in the palm of your hand. It doesn’t matter where you are now, what you’ve been through so far; you can consciously start changing your thoughts, you can change your life. There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Any circumstance in your life can change.”

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“We should not believe the majority who say that only the free should be educated, but the thinkers who say that only the educated are free.”

“Diogenes replied to a person who asked him to write a reference letter: If the person you go to and apply to is someone who can distinguish between good and bad, he will understand what kind of person you are when he sees you. However, if that person lacks this understanding, even if I write to him a thousand times. It won’t do any good.”

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“Our Demetrius always said politely: ‘I equate the words of the ignorant with their guttural rumblings. They did it from above or from below, what difference does it make?’ “

“Don’t be unhappy before your time! The disasters that you think you are afraid of will never happen to you, or at least they have not happened until now. So some of our fears hurt us more than necessary, and some are not necessary at all. We create ourselves.”

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“You have to choose the workplaces and locations that provide the most learning opportunities. Applied knowledge is the best material and will pay you dividends for decades, better than a job that offers fewer learning opportunities and ostensibly pays a lot.”

“Remember when you enter a new environment that your task is to learn and absorb as much as you can. So try to get back to a child’s sense of inferiority, the sense that others know more than you and that you depend on them to complete your apprenticeship.”

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“Our whole life is but a pile of habits.”

“She has documented that most families who have dinner together produce children with better homework skills, better grades, greater emotional control and greater self-confidence. The habit of making the bed in the morning has been associated with higher productivity, an intense sense of well-being, and the ability to stick to a budget. A family That’s not to say that a good meal or a tidy bed leads to better grades or less extravagance. But these initial shifts somehow set off chain reactions that help establish other good habits as well.”

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“Primitive people worship idols made of wood and stone, while civilized people worship idols made of flesh and blood.”

“There is a way one can state one’s purpose. In doing so, one has to act coldly and contemptuously to the audience. So they realize that the person is not trying to please them. The main principle is to never favor those who have nothing to give us but have a lot to take from us in return. We can wait until they get on their knees and beg, even if it takes them a long time to do it.”

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“Friendship comes from the quality of the time two people spend together, not the amount of time they spend together.”

“There is no such thing as a self-made human being. Each of us is made up of thousands of other human beings. Anyone who has done us a favor, said a word to encourage us, has taken their place among the people who make up our character, thoughts and success.”

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“Remember that learning and not doing is not really learning. Knowing and not doing is not knowing.”

“Where there is a problem, there is often an accusation. Society is fond of playing the victim role. “I wish my boss wasn’t such a controlling idiot… I wish I wasn’t born so poor… I wish I lived in a better place. I wish my father hadn’t passed on such an angry disposition to me… I wish my children weren’t so rebellious… I wish our department hadn’t messed around with orders all the time… I wish we hadn’t been in an industry that had regressed so much… I wish our employees were so sluggish
and if they were not unenthusiastic… I wish my wife was more understanding… I wish… I wish.”

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“Don’t leave your brain blank and be lazy. You’ll make it dull.”

“A poet in the time of Yavuz Sultan Selim Han liked his newly written poem and wanted to read it to the sultan. Since the real artist was highly valued at that time, he was easily accepted by the sultan in a short time. Hasan Can and other officials were next to Sultan Selim Han. The poet himself read his poem, his voice trembling with excitement, finished it, and then looked at the sultan. Yavuz Sultan Selim Han, without hesitation, said: “But I know this poem.” Hearing this, the poet was surprised: How can it be, sir, I wrote this poem and it was the first time I wrote it. I’m studying here.” Sultan said, “I can read it once if you want,” and repeated the poem that the man had just read, without stuttering. While the poet was in astonishment, Hasan Can was thrown out; “I know this poem too, my sultan, if you give me a destur, I will read it too.” He also read the poem directly. Thus, the vizier and eight other people there read in turn. In the face of this situation, the poet was confused about what to do: “I don’t understand how it is, my sultan, but I really wrote this poem.” she tried to defend herself. Fortunately, they later told the truth and captured the man’s heart. They said that the sultan memorized what he heard in one go, and that they could memorize what Hasan Can heard in two and the others with increasing numbers. As a result, leaving Yavuz Sultan Selim Han out of this question as an exceptional ability: If everyone’s brain structure is similar, why can some people use it so effectively while others can’t?

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“If you want everyone to approve of you, to like you, GOOD LUCK! Because there is no such thing!”

“What’s the difference between ordering online or ordering food at a restaurant and life? If you’ve never ordered anything online, I’m sure you’ve all ordered a meal at a restaurant once. Life works the same way. See Evren as your waiter. Whatever you order, it will be served. … After you order at the restaurant, you continue to chat with your friends happily because you know that your meal will come. You even say to your friend who says “what are you going to eat” at that time: “Crispy chicken salad”. Have you ever given a speech like this? Or did you witness it? -What did you order? -Crispy chicken salad.. I’m not sure if they’ll bring it. -Why huh? -Maybe I don’t deserve it. And look, I just told you what I want, it may be worth the evil eye. It may lose its energy. Also, you can get what you want. I have to work hard to make it, but I didn’t do anything to deserve this salad. -?????? -And I don’t know the chef in the kitchen m. Man, what if he doesn’t make it just to be annoying? Wait, let me talk to the waiter for a second. Go ask the waiter three times, stand by the chef if he is preparing the salad, call the manager of the restaurant to ask about your salad, go ask all the customers one by one, have they been able to eat the food they want so far? Call your mother, go to the chef again, make a vow to Telli Baba, join the worshops, get fortune-telling, ask the waiter again. Meditate. Then, when you are fired from the restaurant, turn to your friend next to you and; Say, “Look, I told you, it’s worth the evil eye,” say. Let the chef do his job, let the courier do his job, let the UNIVERSE do it. Whenever I tried to dictate to Evren, I failed, whenever I interfered with it, I failed. As the things I wanted did not come true, the things I did not want came true. Just say it once. This is the Big Universe, not stupid. Just believe that your order will be delivered to your door. The universe may not do it according to the plan you have in mind, according to its own mind, it carries you towards the goal in the most suitable way for you, but on the way, we are the ones who change energy by saying, “There is no moon, I don’t want this, look, I don’t want that” every now and then, because we are afraid of the course. The universe is making adjustments to our new energy each time.”

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Personal Development Books | 26

power | 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene

Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Google: 93%
Number of pages: 701
Publisher: Golden Books

Have you ever wondered how one can gain power? Who are the strong and how do the strong become strong? Robert Greene also deals with the concepts of Power-Power in this book. It is a long book, but it leads to great changes in order to be an influential person in your social life.

“Patience will keep you from making stupid mistakes.”

“King Hiero one day, while talking to his enemies, they insult him that his mouth stinks. The good king then gets a little upset and scolds his wife as soon as she returns home. “Why didn’t you tell me about this problem before?” : “Sir, I thought all men smelled like this.” We learn more quickly of our sensuous, bodily and hideous flaws, not from our friends and acquaintances, but from our enemies.”

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Personal Development Books | 27

The Art of Mind Reading – Henrik Fexeus

Goodreads Rating: 3.45
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Diogenes Publishing

Don’t think you can tell what people are thinking by doing magic. This book systematically explains how you can read people’s thoughts.

“Actions are thought to follow feelings, but in fact actions and feelings go together, and by dominating actions that are under the direct control of the will, we indirectly dominate our emotions that are not under the control of the will.”

“You will show that you are like him by adopting the way the other person communicates and making your expressions similar to theirs. Besides, people love people who remind them of themselves. Who do we love more than anyone else? Ourselves. Secondly, who do we love? People who look like us. “We like to spend time with people who like us and those who don’t. According to research, we also prefer to hire people who are like us. We choose as friends who make us comfortable when we are who we are. Who can make us more comfortable than people who look like us anyway?”

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Start with Why – Simon Sinek

Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Google: 92%
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Aritan Publishing House

The Start With Why series, which consists of two books, is shaped by Simon Sinek’s claim that the biggest thing you need to be successful in any subject is to have a reason. Simon Sinek underlines the importance of “finding why” with evidence. This book, which contains tactics that you can easily apply in both professional and daily life, says that the main factor in the success of even Apple, the world’s giant technology brand, is to find a “why”.

“Why is no one trying to win both the mind and the heart?”

“It is possible to get people to take action for one cause or another. Some motivate people to sell their ideas. Sometimes they do this to gain support and votes. Others are to get people to work harder and more productively or just follow the rules. “They encourage them to take action. Motivating people isn’t a very difficult thing. It always depends on an external factor. The fear of fulfilling their desires or being punished often creates the behaviors we expect of them. Great leaders are those who can inspire people to take action.”

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“We must never forget that everything we have and everyone we love will perish one day. This is something we should always keep in mind but not become pessimistic. Being aware of the impermanence should not make us sad, it should help us love the moment and those around us.”

“There is a tension between what is good for the person and what they want to do. Because everyone, especially the elderly, wants to do what they always do. But the brain, which has developed ingrained habits, no longer needs to think. Things are very fast and sufficiently on autopilot, often very superior. “This creates a tendency to cling to routines. The only way to break it is to fiddle the brain with new information.”

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“If you want to stay young for the rest of your life, keep improving, learning, exploring, and don’t shut yourself up in habits that dull your soul or in the numbing comfort of things you already know how to do!”

“When we face the test, we often react with anger or despair; we rightly reject what feels unfair to us. But anger deafens, despair blinds. We miss the opportunity to grow. In this case, hard blows and defeats ensue. It is not fate that falls upon us, it conveys its message. It’s life trying to renew it.”

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“What you have experienced is reflected on your face. A person’s face can be read like a book. Even if your expression is empty, it is noticed that you have not experienced anything. It is possible to get rid of it; live away from the monotony, travel, see, explore, take care of others, read, love. Make them full so that they leave the traces. Let it be reflected on your face. Do not let your face remain expressionless.”

“When you come together with a person who will open a new door to your brain and add value to you, you learn something; you think about something; you start to look at a new place. Your thought gains a new dimension, a different perspective is added to your life. That dimension can sometimes be wrong, to the detriment. no, this is wrong, it will be corrected in time. Moreover, even that wrong is better than wandering around. People who improve your language, impression, experience and manners; change your view of the world are important. Try to get together with them; then you will go elsewhere, You don’t have to stay still.”

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“While it is said to be ‘seeing things on the bright side’, the truth is that life sucks sometimes and the healthiest thing you can do is admit it.”

“Just as one gains stronger bones and muscles through physical pain, so does one gain emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, more compassion, and a generally happier life through emotional pain. We experience our most radical changes at the end of our worst periods. But when we are in intense pain, we review our values and question why they can’t make us happy.”

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“No sane person would spend a third of their life on a pillow.”

“You know? You were born a genius. Like all geniuses, there was nothing impossible for you, until that day… You were building a sand castle in the park with your father. At that time, a plane was passing over the park. You showed the plane and said, “Daddy You said, “Buy it for me!” You were 5 years old. Your father laughed. He said, “Come, baby, I’ll buy you a waffle!” You insisted, “No, I want a plane!” You didn’t mean it. To you, that flying thing belonged to someone’s father, and your father could have taken it too. Nothing was impossible for you, but it was impossible for your father. Because years ago, when he went to the park with his father, his father bought him a nap instead of a plane. That’s it, my friend yet You were 5 years old when they taught you the impossible.
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“The lazy man cannot enjoy a well-deserved rest. Because, as Pascal said, it is good to warm up when you are cold, and rest when you are tired.”

“It has to be active all the time and everywhere. There is no such thing as a special time in this regard. It is necessary to use every time. Being active, getting out of bed in the morning and cleaning it diligently and vigorously, sitting at the desk resolutely without allowing external factors that try to tempt us.” being engaged in our work, reading carefully, not passively, constantly making effort. Being active is also taking a walk to recharge your energy of thought. Dealing with things that drain your energy and things that discourage you is a complete waste of time. Being busy with things like chatting with smart friends even in your spare time We can be active even while eating. We can reduce the workload of the stomach by chewing our food enough. The most miserable state of the teenager is when he is inactive and wastes his time. He spends hours in the bathroom, the morning passes by yawning, he buries his head in a book, he moves slowly. Neither working nor wants to deal with something. Decide where to be It’s like he didn’t. Nor does he intend to wait for an opportunity to take action. However, seizing opportunities requires vigilance.”

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“Everything we care about and is important to us has the potential to hurt.”

“When we say fuck it, which we usually say when things don’t work out, we realize that the things that matter to us don’t really matter at all. So, no matter how important something happened to us, we stop taking it so seriously that we no longer take it seriously. The important ones require seriousness. The unimportant ones are the homeland of lightness and laughter.”

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