Personal Development

Blake Snyder’s “Save the Cat!” is a celebrated guide for aspiring screenwriters, offering a straightforward and entertaining approach to crafting compelling stories. Known for its 15 “story beats,” the book offers a clear structure for developing a screenplay, from the opening image to the resolution. Snyder shares practical advice, such as creating a relatable protagonist—illustrated by the titular act of "saving the cat," a metaphor for showing your character's humanity early in the story to win the audience's empathy. The book is filled with humorous anecdotes and real-world examples, making it both informative and enjoyable.

Save the Cat!

Named after the authors’ famous undergraduate course at Yale, ‘’Life Worth Living’’ deals with the question that has puzzled people for centuries - What kind of life is worth pursuing? By discovering how famous people from across the globe and throughout history contemplated this question, this bestseller will help you reach valuable insights on what a flourishing life looks like for you and how you can attain it.

Life Worth Living

The human brain is the most important tool we have. Unfortunately, we rarely use it properly. Even though we think we’re good thinkers, we make most of our decisions based on gut feelings, emotions and without having the right information. In “Think Straight,” Darius Foroux explains why it’s important to change that, and more importantly, how. It’s a practical book on practical thinking.

Think Straight

Love and friendship are the backbone of happiness, and no one could argue otherwise.

Sex & Relationships

God created Man in His image, but most of us have forgotten how to develop this “image” in the vital areas of our lives. Fortunately, in “Changes That Heal,” Henry Cloud takes us step-by-step through the four basic tasks of becoming mature image bearers of God: 1) bonding to others; 2) separating from others; 3) sorting out good and bad; and 4) becoming an adult.

Changes That Heal

An easily digestible and interactive book, “Best Self” by Mike Bayer, known to most Americans simply as Coach Mike, distills most of his wisdom into a compact, focused guide that aims to stimulate anyone’s desire for change. Revolving around Coach Mike’s trademarked screening tool, the SPHERES, “Best Self” is a simple, all-around manual for designing a happier and more fulfilling life.

Best Self

Understanding the science behind your decision making and behavior is a great asset in the battle to a more fulfilled life.

Psychology

Rather than a mysterious gift, creativity is a skill that anyone can acquire – or, at least, so feels legendary comedian John Cleese. In “Creativity,” he tries to substantiate this claim, drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer and the work of modern psychologists. Along the way, he distills a few hints and suggestions, and explains how one can best hone in on their creative thinking skills.

Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

Healthy boundaries are the root of self-care and meaningful relationships. In ‘’Set Boundaries, Find Peace,’’ Nedra Glover Tawwab explains how you can create and honor them, handle people’s undesirable responses to your boundaries, and deal with the discomfort we may feel after saying ‘’no’’ to others.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

Kelly McGonigal teaches a course on willpower at Stanford University. She quickly realized that a lot of people struggle with exerting self-control. With her students, she developed willpower exercises that she shares with the world in “The Willpower Instinct.”

The Willpower Instinct

In “Positive Intelligence” former coach-trainer Shirzad Chamine explores why so many teams and individuals never seem to be able to tap into their full potentials. He believes this is down to listening to the ten Saboteurs of the mind. He provides an easy-to-follow approach on how to silence those inner derogatory voices and increase your success and happiness.

Positive Intelligence

 Learn the methods of effective communication, and understand what drives corporate culture. 

Corporate Culture & Communication

Brief and smartly structured, “4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication” by Bento C. Leal is a simple step-by-step guide to overcoming communication barriers and achieving relationship success. To make things even simpler, Leal breaks down each of the four keys – empathic awareness, empathic listening, empathic speaking and empathic dialogue – into several smaller steps, all of them actionable and pragmatic.

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work

What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

Simon Sinek points out that decisions are not always based on real knowledge, but often rest on false assumptions. “Start with Why” guides by offering the golden circle analysis – Why does your organization do what it does? How does it do it? What does it do? – This approach will not only improve your cognitive abilities but will also increase your leadership skills.

Start with Why

Get inspired, build great plans, reach your goals, live happier!

Self-Help & Motivation

“Atomic Habits,” by James Clear, breaks down the mechanics of habit creation, and translates the findings into four practical laws of behavior change that can help you shift from feeling stuck in life to achieving remarkable results through minuscule and almost effortless daily changes.

Atomic Habits

Explore the work-ethic of productive people and get a glimpse into the techniques that helped them reach a high level of success.

Productivity & Time Management

If you have ever wondered if there is an easy way to success, look no further. Grant Cardone, bestselling author and successful sales training expert, has come up with the 10X Rule, which offers a simple formula for anyone to achieve more than they ever dreamed. 
Leading a successful life has nothing to do with your education, your character traits or your background, but everything to do with how much work you are willing to put into becoming successful. Commitment, obsession, and the right mindset will get you where you want to be. And “The 10X Rule” will help you along the way.

The 10X Rule

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

In “Mindset,” world-renowned psychologist Carol S. Dweck proposes that there are two fundamental mindsets that people adapt: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. By comparing and contrasting the two, she demonstrates why only one of them works – and how people can use this knowledge to improve and make the world a better place.

Mindset

Healthy mind, healthy body. Take some moments of tranquility amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Spirituality & Mindfulness

Drawing on research conducted at Joe Dispenza’s advanced workshops, “Becoming Supernatural” explores the mystical aspects of existence and goes to great lengths to demonstrate that, by way of meditations and mental rehearsals, humans can change their brain chemistry, actively participate in the reshaping of their futures, and slowly develop more efficient, more balanced and healthier bodies.

Becoming Supernatural

Have you figured out who you are, or are you pretending to be somebody else? Beloved author Brené Brown believes your own self is a one-of-a-kind wilderness that holds the unique path to your self-belonging. Urging her readers to tread bravely, Brown encourages us all to leave the comfort zone and burst out of the bubble that society and media wrapped us in. 

Braving the Wilderness

Take a sneak-peek into the private lives of people who left a mark in world history.

Biographies & Memoirs

“Drop the Ball” is part memoir and part manual on how working mothers can finally achieve a balance between work and home life without having to compromise. The key is to get your partner to share in the workload, and Dufu explains from her own experience how to get there.

Drop the Ball

Throughout his career, famous Indian-American entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant has generously shared his wisdom with millions of people worldwide through Twitter, various blogs, and interviews. ‘’The Almanack of Naval Ravikant’’ presents Naval’s most powerful ideas on building wealth and achieving happiness collected and organized by Eric Jorgenson.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

One of Simon & Schuster’s all-time paperback bestsellers, “The Magic of Thinking Big” by David J. Schwartz reveals why self-believe is the cornerstone of success and shares numerous practical pieces of advice on how people can develop their power of belief, set their goals high and devise a concrete success-building program to not only meet them – but exceed them as well.

The Magic of Thinking Big

Stop leaving your mood to chance! Learn how to use neuroscience to hijack your productivity and turn even the toughest days into successes. This guide offers practical, science-backed strategies to help you master your focus, energy, and relationships. Ready to have a great day?