Motivational books

[ZenMusician]

I thought this book was useful for unclogging the creative juice tap every now and again:

Artist's Way

-ZEN

[SlowHabit]

Does anyone know if the reviewers on Amazon get paid?

[SuperWhale]

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Sounds perfect for Think and Grow Rich

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Second that, this book is based on years of research on successful people and the qualities they share. The research was done at Andrew Carnegie's request.

It is a pretty fast read too.

[Genz]

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Sounds perfect for Think and Grow Rich

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Second that, this book is based on years of research on successful people and the qualities they share. The research was done at Andrew Carnegie's request.

It is a pretty fast read too.

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That's the first book that came to my mind too, but I have doubts that it will help in this specific situation. IIRC (I haven't read it completely), it's more for people that already have a specific goal that they want to pursue and helps them getting there (edit: i.e. staying motivated, sticking with the goal, enduring hardships). I don't know if it's motivational if you don't really have a goal in the first place. But I might be wrong.

OP, a few years ago, NLP was all the rage. Maybe YOU want to read a few of those books to learn how to influence your buddy to develop a burning desire. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[PokerAmateur4]

whats the opinion on "laws of success"?

[bkholdem]

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I'm currently looking for motivational books so I can help out a friend. I never understand why such books exist and the strategies/advices are cheesy but it seems like most people [or at least most that I know] aren't very motivated.

I am browsing Amazon but there are too many titles with 4.5 stars and I don't want to buy all of them only to find out they give the same advices.

If you don't know any motivation books, any book on how to deal with people [or persuasion] is fine.

Thanks!

PS. Another friend likes "The Power of Now" but he said it's BS after 5 chapters.

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Question: "How many motivational books does it take to motivate a person?"

Answer: "Only one, but the person has to desire to be motivated."

[LDonnie]

I haven't read any of the thread and have no clue what kind of motivation we are looking for but in my personal experience I have found Zig Ziglar's book "Better Than Good" to be great and my father says his "See You At The Top" is a great book also.
good luck

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Napoleon Hill: Think and grow rich
Brian Tracy: Eat that frog. (more about self-organization)
Tom Butler-Bowdon: 50 Success Classics (best book ever)
Stephen R. Covey: The 7 habits of highly effective people
W.T. Gallwey: The inner game of tennis
read these and you are ready. Ready for what, you ask? You tell me.

[untadam]

I find it hard to get motivated by books like these because most of the stuff is general knowledge that gets drilled into us during our schooling yet we refuse to soak it in. If someone doesn't have a desire to live dangerously they aren't going to suddenly change after reading some book. Just my opinion...

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that is partly true. these books are usually wasted, if you just give them to someone as a gift. noone can make you want to read it. its like poker and so many other things: you know you should read this book to improve your understanding of the game or whatever and still you dont do it. why? who cares? if you dont really want to improve, no force on earth can make you do it.
On the other hand it is good to have them around, just in case you change your mind and need some other opinions.