The last six books I read on personal development

I am picking up inspiration as I go, so the only red thread is my interest when I buy each book.

- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
My intro to ACT and cognitive behavioural therapy. It has been an actionable book through a tough time. More actionable than theoretical.

- Four Thousand Weeks
It is a quick book built on an interesting twist on time prioritization. Many concepts are already found elsewhere, but they are well-packaged.

- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Another classic read about something I craved at many points during my journey as a founder. This is a bit more about setting up a conceptual framework.

- All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
I am currently reading it since I was interested in their angle of sweeping through thousands of years in the search for answers to modern nihilism. I found the first chapter on nihilism and the chapter on Melville's work really well written.

- Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
It made me reflect on which avenues of self-actualization are most important for me right now and made me realise that Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been misrepresented as a pyramid in 90% of the literature, thanks to management consulting :)

- Meditations
I find it the most readable of the whole stoic movement since it is written almost as a diary.

- Man's Search for Meaning
I re-read it recently, and it is timeless.


And some I have on my list because I found the angle interesting:
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
- Projections: A Story of Human Emotions