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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

This latest book from the authors of Made to Stick examines why change is sometimes hard--and what to do about it. This story-driven book is fascinating and dead-practical, focusing both on huge issues (cutting a hospital’s death rate) and small ones (getting employees to turn in expense reports on time). Switch provides lots to fascinate, and lots to apply to your personal life.

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer

The book provides a roadmap aka The Mother of All Reading Lists for adults who long for the classical education they never had. Bauer provides numerous suggestions for reading across 5 genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry—as well as numerous hows and whys. This is the grown-ups’ counterpart to The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (one of the books I read over and over again).

Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job

by Jon Acuff

Jon Acuff pioneered the successful website Stuff Christians Like while he was working IT at autotrader.com. He was tired of doing the “reverse Superman” every Monday morning--changing out of the clothes he’d worn to speak at conferences about Stuff Christians Like (his dream job) and into the khaki-and-polo corporate uniform of his day job. In Quitter, Acuff tells the story of how he left his day job for his dream job--and how you can do it, too.

(I attended the Quitter Conference last fall: head here to read my related posts about the future of the internet, relationships with "how" people and "wow" people, and balance as a game of twister.)

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

by Laura Vanderkam

Vanderkam's no-nonsense, no-excuses approach to time management just might convince you that you actually have time to accomplish anything you really want to do, when you focus on your core competencies and stop frittering away your time. To get the most out of this book you must do the time diary exercise.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

by John Gottman

Gottman is the famed researcher who’s able to predict with 91% accuracy if a couple will divorce after observing them for a mere 5 minutes. Gottman fleshes out what successful relationships have in common, and shows you how to view your own relationship through a marriage counselor’s eyes. Investing in your marriage is easier than you might think.

Growth Books

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

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Growth Books

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Find your next read with:

100 Book recommendations for every mood

100 Book recommendations
for every mood