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Suggest some good motivation books / reading

moker [Edit] [Delete] 14 replies 13:18, 23 April '12

Hey guys! We're all full of potential right? HIGH FIVE! So I want to read some books that will actually help me achieve some goals (or even work out what I want so I can set them) and I've read a fair bit of Anthony Robbins - Who is great if not quite heavy going.

Anyone got any good motivational books that aren't complete cod that they can recommend.

Come on team LET'S ACHIEVE THESE GOALS TOGETHER

*walks on hot coals*

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  • Thus Spake Zarathrustra

    DaddyorChips | 23 Apr '12, 13:39 | X
    TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
  • not really a motivational book

    But this is excellent.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+chimp+paradox&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=15524221430&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1909008586731487202&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&ref=pd_sl_546vp03fl3_e

    zxcvbnm- | 23 Apr '12, 13:47 | X
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus

    keith | 23 Apr '12, 13:56 | X
    DaddyorChips and TheWza this'd this
    • Read it

      Hardly motivational material.

      Good though.

      moker @keith | 24 Apr '12, 11:46 | X
      • I think that was the joke he was making.

        DaddyorChips @moker | 24 Apr '12, 12:33 | X
        • I dunno

          It made me kill a man on a beach with a gun who was Arabic.

          Or maybe that was The Cure's fault.

          moker @DaddyorChips | 26 Apr '12, 12:00 | X
  • Not read the book so I can't recommend it for sure

    but this looks like the kind of thing you're after:

    http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/17/sir-ken-robinson-school-of-life/

    lyserge | 23 Apr '12, 14:00 | X
  • Depends what you want to be motivated for.

    If it's the mass genocide of your enemies then probably Mein Kampf.
    If however it's just earning 40k plus, I'd go Chris Akabusi's Success Comes In Cans.
    http://www.akabusi.com/eShop.aspx

    rich78 | 23 Apr '12, 14:13 | X
  • I could condense "Fear The Fear and Do It Anyway" into one sentence, and that would probably be the title. But I think it would be pretty good for someone who has debilitating fears of certain situations.

    I find "How to Win Friends and Influence People" a little creepy. But it's an interesting read, if only for all the anecdotes.

    berksy | 23 Apr '12, 14:13 | X
  • The Quran

    fuckyeahdubstep | 24 Apr '12, 11:47 | X
    • Don't they make cereal?

      moker @fuckyeahdubstep | 24 Apr '12, 17:24 | X
  • The Alchemist?

    ChintzyLacroix | 24 Apr '12, 12:45 | X
  • Most of them seem to have a similar message

    BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF NOW.

    How can someone constantly live in the moment? Impossible.

    marilyninthesky | 24 Apr '12, 12:52 | X
    • Of course you can

      You need to read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle for starters.

      Mind of matter innit.

      moker @marilyninthesky | 24 Apr '12, 17:25 | X
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