Top 10 Motivational Books
Motivation is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. It is what causes you to act, whether it is getting a glass of water to reduce thirst or reading a book to gain knowledge.
Motivation involves the biological, social, emotional, and cognitive forces that activate behavior.
Behind each of these actions, there is a driving force that compels the person to engage in that action — which is called motivation. For example, a student studies his books because he wants to get high marks in the exam. The aim of getting high marks is a motivation for the students studying his books.
Here I’m going to discuss the top 10 motivational books of the world’s best writers.
1. Think and grow rich
The book is written by “Napoleon Hill” examines the psychological power of thought and the brain in the process of furthering your career for both monetary and personal satisfaction. This book was originally published in 1937. This is one of the best self-help classics and a must-read for investors’ entrepreneurial types.
The promise of the book is simple: Riches begin with a state of mind. If we want to get rich, we must first change our minds so that we become, as Napoleon Hills calls it, money-conscious. He says that we must THINK ourselves rich. https://www.njlifehacks.com/summary-think-grow-rich-by-napoleon-hill/
A burning desire is not enough for achieving wealth or any other major goal. You need to believe you can achieve this desire. Or as Napoleon Hill said, “you must have faith”.
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R is written on Convoy’s belief that the way we see the world is entirely based on our perceptions. To change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.
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The purpose of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is to help you lead your life in a truly effective way. They represent a proven process of personal and interpersonal growth that can have an immediate and lasting impact.
Here are the key insights from the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
1. Sharpen the saw. Don’t work yourself to death
2. Be proactive
3. Begin with an end in mind
4. Put first things first
5. Think win-win
6. Seek first to understand, then to be understood
7. Synergize
3. Man’s search for meaning
Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning provides a vivid account of an individual’s experience as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. The book focuses on love, hope, responsibility, inner freedom, and the beauty to be found in both nature and art as means that help one endure and overcome harrowing experiences.
Frankl concludes in Man’s Search for Meaning that one can find the meaning of life in almost every moment of life, whether it is of suffering or happiness. He believes life never stops to have a meaning; it is just that a person has to find it out right on time.
Quotes from “Man’s Search for Meaning”
“It didn’t matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead think of ourselves as those who are being questioned by life daily and hourly. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problem and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
4. The Alchemist
The writer of Alchemist was “Paulo Coelho” wisdom is the theme of Alchemist. It is an adventure story of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of traveling the world and discovering treasures. During one of his travels, he meets a beautiful Arabian woman named Fatima who explains to him that if he follows his heart, he shall find what he seeks. He makes plenty of sacrifices, but he also gains a lot, like learning from the many people he meets.
Throughout the book, Coelho is trying to convey a deeper message, what starts a boy’s journey to Egypt and transforms into a universal message about trying to listen to our hearts and peruse our dreams.
The Alchemist is an enticing and inspiring novel filled with optimism. The novel instills in us a belief that any is possible if only you dare to believe in your dreams and pursue them.
5. Tuesday with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson
Mitch Albom was the author of “Tuesday with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson.” In this book, Morrie taught the author the practice of forgiveness.
Not only to others but as well as to himself. We may regret the things we did in the past, but not everything is within our control. Not letting go of it won’t change anything, but a better outlook for the future might.
The central theme in Tuesday with Morrie is how accepting one’s death can help one to understand what matters in life and to live more meaningfully.
In this book, the important early lesson from Morrie to Mitch was life is a series of pulls back & forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t.
6. You can heal your life
The book “You can heal your life” was written by Louise Hay, a self-help book.
In a nutshell: you will only begin to change your life when you learn how to love yourself properly. You can heal your life, published in 1984, offers a message of non-judgmental love and support.
Louise Hay said: “often what we think of as the things “wrong” with us are only our expressions of our individuality. This is our uniqueness and what is special about us. Nature never repeats itself.”
“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds. Claim and consciously use your power.” https://www.goodreads.com.
7. How to win friends and influence people
Dale Carnegie wrote the book, “How to win friends and influence people” in October 1936.
The idea of the book is that you can change other people’s behavior simply by changing your own. It teaches you the principle to better understand people, become a more likable person, improve relationships, win others over, and influence behavior through leadership.
“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotions, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
Dale Carnegie teaches 6 ways to make people like you:
1. Become genuinely interested in other people
2. Smile
3. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person’s interest.
6. Make the other person feel important and do it nicely.
8. The compound effect-jumpstart your income, your life, your success
Darren Hardy the author of, “The compound effect jumpstart your income, your life, your success.”
The compound effect is about how small actions, executed consistently, can lead to hugely successful results, both in business and life. The book was written by Darren Hardy, a guy who knows more than a thing or two about the topic of success, seeing as though he’s spent the waste majority of his career at the helm of success Magazine.
Darren learned that the decisions we make daily have a direct impact on the direction and ultimate success (or lack thereof) that we experience in our lives.
Darren Hardy said: “the most challenging aspect of our compound effect is that we have to keep working away for a while, consistently and efficiently, before we can begin to see the payoff.”
9. The one thing-the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results
The one thing-the surprisingly simple truth behind the extraordinary results is a non-fiction self-help book written by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan.
The main idea of the book is that “extraordinary results don’t happen overnight. They are built sequentially, one step at a time. You can use the focusing questions to survey and narrow down your options, line up your priorities and do what matters most, thus setting yourself up for success and a life with no regrets.”
10. Mindset: The new psychology of success
Carol Dweck, the author of “Mindset: The new psychology of success” coined the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. When students believe they can get smarter, they understand that efforts make them stronger. Therefore, they put in extra time and effort, and that leads to higher achievement.
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“The key message in the book is not that fixed mindsets are bad and growth mindsets are good; it’s about creating awareness of the 2 minutes and their impact, so you can make a conscious choice on if/ what to change in your best interest. Know that you can choose and change your mindset.”
