You Don’t Need Self-Help Books, But If You Do, Read These 5
Stop here and read these books
In my recent rant about self-help, books, and articles I roasted everybody, including myself, that is obsessed with these books — now, if you want to read some of them you should read these and only these.
Here are five self-help books that you should read.
1 — How to Ikigai by Tim Tamashiro
Ikigai, a topic that has interested me for a while now — Amardeep Parmar once wrote a viral article about this topic in 2020.
It’s basically a book that guides you through the Ikigai philosophy, or lifestyle, as I believe it is.
In “How to Ikigai” Tim Tamashiro explains to the reader how it’s possible for all of us to live happy and purposeful lives.
If you want your life to spark more joy, you should read this book.
2 — Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
I purchased this book a couple of weeks ago because I was really interested in habits and meta-habits that could improve your lifestyle and productivity — bottom line: I haven’t read it, yet.
But according to all the people that have actually read the book, I must say it’s a recommendation for all of us that need a habit changing book.
3 — The Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof
Wim Hof inspired me back in 2020 when he appeared in podcast I listened to — that pulled me over the line to start trying the Wim Hof Method for the first time: cold showers and breathing techniques.
This year I bought his book “The Wim Hof Method” to get a better grasp of the insights to improve my techniques.
Here are three takeaways:
- Keep breathing
- Willpower helps you to achieve everything
- You need cold showers to improve your immune system
4 — The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma
The 5 AM Club is a bit of a controversial one for me because I’m opposing the fact that you need to wake up at five AM to achieve more in your day and perhaps life.
I hate people that say: “you should wake up earlier”.
This book is about that, waking up early — but I think it’s a book that you should read before you form an opinion about it.
You can roast me afterward.
5 — The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Nowadays, we all need comfort.
That’s what this book gives you, comfort and rest in a very stressful world where a lot of awful things are happening at the moment.
“The Comfort Book” is a typical book that represents the phenomenon “toxic positivity”.
But it’s an eye-opener and that’s why you need to read it.
If you’re a realist like me and don’t like all the “toxic positivity” it’s quite confronting and therefor makes it non-comforting.
Wrapping Things Up
As you can tell, the books that you should read aren’t always the ones that are the ones you want to read — you need to challenge yourself and your mind.
Confrontation teaches best.
You don’t need books to confirm your own ideas, you want to read books to generate new ideas and discussions.
That’s what this list is for.
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