Hope everyone had a good Christmas/holiday season!
Here are three books that I bought myself to read with my Christmas gift cards:
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Steve Pavlina – Personal Development for Smart People
Michael E. Gerber – The E-Myth Revisited
Reviews will be forthcoming as I read them…
Some of the books that I almost bought, but didn’t make it this time around include:
James Surowiecki – The Wisdom of Crowds
Also looking for books by Clay Shirky
How about you? Planning to read any good books? Got any suggestions?
Thanks, mate. You've read the Pavlina book, haven't you?
I have two suggestions Mark:
http://www.amazon.com/Back-Napkin-Solving-Probl...
http://www.amazon.com/Theory-U-Leading-Future-E...
I thought they were both fantastic. First one is a quick read, the second one is heavier going.
Hi Mark,
I take it that if you've bought “Flow”, you're interested in Positive Psychology. If this is the case I make the following two recommendations; 1) “A Primer in Positive Psychology by Christopher Peterson” & 2) “Self-Directed Behavior” by David L. Watson and Roland G. Tharp.
Don't be put off because these two books are aimed at the undergraduate psychology student, both are quite readable and give a good grounding in positive psychology and behavioral psychology respectively.
Cheers
I'm just starting to learn a bit about Positive Psychology, mainly by accident, so we'll see. Thanks for the recommendations, though, Ben.
Yep. I like PD4SP more for the way it was organised. I really liked the framework and the structure of the book, but it did not deeply affect me like some others do, eg: conversations with god, and theory U.