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The Best Books to Get Started With Personal Development

There are so many personal development books out there. It can be difficult to choose where to start. These five books are great to lay the foundational ground to get started with personal development. Even if you’re not new to personal development, these books are must-reads. This list includes older books that are classics and have stood the test of time as well as some newer ones with new discoveries and unique approaches to personal development.

Here are the five best books to get started with personal development with one honorable mention.

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26 Benefits of Personal Development

There is an endless amount of benefits to personal development and growth. While the journey can get bumpy and it’s not always positive — it can be hard, lengthy, and scary, and sometimes the objective is not always achieved, there are many skills and experiences derived from personal development that lead to a richer, happier, more fulfilled life.

Here are 26 of the most important benefits of personal development.

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Personal Growth 101: An Introduction to Personal Development

Personal growth, personal development or self-development is an essential part of a person’s success and happiness. Personal development is a very vast topic and subject area that consists of a multitude of subjects and topics. There’s a lot to it. Some of it can be conflicting too. And then some of it can seem like common sense.

Personal development consists of techniques and ideas to improve your life as well as inspirational positivity and quotes.

This article is designed to give you an introduction to personal development. Personal growth and personal development will be used interchangeably.

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What is Personal Growth? 389 People Define Personal Growth

Personal development. Personal growth. Self-help. Self-development. Self-improvement. Self-growth. Positive psychology.

Those are some of the many different phrases and words used to describe personal growth or whatever you want to call it.

But what exactly is personal growth?

I asked 389 people what is personal growth and what it means to me them.

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The Best Gifts for Self-Care, Personal Development, and Wellness

Want to give someone a memorable gift that will actually improve their life? Getting gifts for others can be difficult especially when you don’t know their size, their style, what exactly they want, or if they’ll even use what you do get them. The last thing you want is give them something meaningless that only add to their clutter, never gets used, or will end up in the trash. This article lists 10 different gifts for wellness, self-care, and personal development specialized for different needs, wants, and people.

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12 Powerful Scientifically Proven Habits That Will Change Your Life

Are you ready and willing to change your life? Start with these small habits, and you will be on your way to living a happier, longer, and more fulfilling and successful life.

These twelve habits have been scientifically proven to change your life. Many of these work together and can be implemented with each other, but you can start with just one at a time. Focus on one habit a month, and you will have these 12 habits in a year. In one year, your life can dramatically change with these simple yet powerful habits. Read on to find out why and how.

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27 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy

We all want to be happy, yet we partake in mindsets and behaviors that ultimately make life harder and leave us unhappier. We are responsible for our own happiness. Although it may be difficult, we can let go of those things that no longer serve us and only cause pain, suffering, and stress.

Here’s a list of 27 things you should give up to be happy.

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15 Small Lifestyle Changes that Will Dramatically Improve Your Life

Small lifestyle changes can have dramatic impacts on our lives, even if we don’t notice at first. The effects usually last too. We may have heard many of these before, but they’re a lot more powerful and important than we think. They are backed by a growing body of research.

Here are 15 small ways to make dramatic changes in your life to drastically improve your life and live a happier, richer, and more fulfilling life. These 15 small lifestyle changes will dramatically improve your life.

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What You Can Change and What You Can’t Change

You might’ve heard and might even believe the statement, “People can’t change.” There is also the long-running debate in psychology on nature vs. nurture. Are people born a certain way because of genes or do they do become that way because of environment and upbringing? Most people will say, to some degree both.

The question then becomes, regardless of whether it’s genetics or the environment, “Is change is possible?” What change is possible and what isn’t? What can we change and what can’t we change?

Plasticity is the term scientists, and psychologists use for what changes and what doesn’t. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to change. The book The Brain That Changes Itself details many astounding cases of neuroplasticity. So while genetics and biology can play a role in a person’s psychology, it doesn’t mean that change is impossible.

Co-founder of positive psychology Martin Seligman, in his book What You Can Change and What You Can’t, claims that there are things we can change and things we can’t change.

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  • If you could choose to have one superpower, what would it be? ⠀ It’s an easy answer for me. A learning superpower. I’m not too sure what the specifics would be, but you could get crazy with it. ⠀ Think about it: If you could learn anything, you could do pretty much anything most people desire to do. ⠀ You could learn how to make money, you could learn how to be popular, make friends and find love. ⠀ You could learn to develop discipline and take action to achieve anything you want. ⠀ You could learn about the body and health to become super strong, healthy and fit. ⠀ You could learn how to build machines and technology that would make you be able to do pretty much anything a super hero could do. ⠀ You could learn the solution to a major world problem. ⠀ Instead of saving people from one big bad villain, you’d be saving people from problems that affect millions like cancer and poverty. ⠀ The crazy thing is that this power is available to us. Sure it’s not a super power in which we’re able to just scan a whole bookshelf and absorb all the information or be able to learn a superhuman speed. But we do have the power to learn nearly anything. Many of us just never use it because we’re too busy working hard. Or we think that the people that accomplish these great feats are just super geniuses. The only difference is that they are constant learners. They know the power and value of learning and education. ⠀ Learning is so underrated. All this talk of hustle and grind and working hard is prevalent all over social media. This is a bit silly to me when we could be working smarter instead of harder. This is the value of learning and education. ⠀ It allows us to accomplish things faster and better and not only that, it allows us to grow and advance rather than continue to stagnate with outdated and limited knowledge. Knowledge is becoming more valuable than money. Education and learning are what can make us become great and attain power in our lives.