Self-Improvement Book Summaries
This page contains book summaries of books that I have read. The goal of each book summary is to write down the best lessons and main takeaways from that book.
To read a book summary, you can either click the book cover image, title or “read more” button. I have also included a short description about the books content and my personal 1 – 10 rating. I can just say that every book contains some useful information, some have more the others.
Below you can filter the books based on topic by clicking on a topic.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
This book explains 12 rules to live a better life. These rules can help us find more meaning and success.
Personal rating: 10 / 10
A great and practical book on how to develop good habits and get rid of bad ones. It will explain how habits are formed and why we behave in certain ways. It will also show how practicing small positive habits every day compounds into massive results over time.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
This book explains why too much time on our phone and social media is bad for us. It also gives advice on how our phone and technology should be used instead to get better results in life.
Personal rating: 8.5 / 10
This book explains what our ego is and if not controlled, how it can negatively affect our life and career.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
This book is about leadership. It teaches how to successfully lead and manage teams. It highlights the importance of responsibility, respect and ownership. This book will help you build, train and lead high performing winning teams.
Personal rating: 10 / 10
This book will explain the six habits that many successful and high performing people have in common and how to implement them into our life. It will also give advice on how to progress and grow faster in life.
Personal rating: 10 / 10
This is a book about behaviour science and contains tons of practical advice on how to live a better life. It includes topics like productivity, decision-making, developing your mindset, communication, energy management, and stress reduction
Personal rating: 9 / 10
This is a book about human relations and interaction. The book gives advice on many things such as how to effectively communicate and interact with others in order to build relationships and gain influence. It covers topics such as how to make a good first impression, how to genuinely appreciate others, and how to handle difficult people.
Personal rating: 6 / 10
This book talks about the word Ikigai which basically means to find your purpose in life. It also shares some habits from the people in Okinawa that leads to a longer life.
Personal rating: 10 / 10
This book talks about the two different mindsets a person can have, a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. If you want to become successful you need a growth mindset.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
The main message from this book is that it's not that we have a short life but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough and a sufficiently amount of time has been given to us for the highest achievements if it's well invested.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
This book explain what stillness means, why it’s important and how to find it. The path to a better and more productive life is to find more stillness.
Personal rating: 9 / 10
This book shares advice on what successful people do and the mindset they have in order to succeed in life. Success is subjective and different to everyone of us but achieving whatever success we want is almost always through developing self-discipline. It explains this process through a 7-step process.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
One of the most sold self-help and success books of all time. This book explains the seven habits that a lot of successful people have in common. These habits will teach you how to build a better character and also help you solve personal and professional problems more effectively.
Personal rating: 10 / 10
This book is filled with facts and practical advice on how to build wealth and create happiness in life. This is a very long summary just because there is so much useful, good and true information.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
The main idea from the book is that the size of your success is determined by the size of your beliefs and dreams. This book shares advice on how to reach ones goals in life, what actions to take, the attitude and mindset to have and how to behave around and treat other people.
Personal rating: 8 / 10
This book is about the ancient philosophy Stoicism. It talks and gives advice on how to view and overcome problems and obstacles when they arrive. Contains a lot of wisdom and tips that can be applied into our daily lives.
Personal rating: 8.5 / 10
This book is not about that you should care about nothing. Instead, it talks about that you should be more selective and intentional of the things you care about.
Personal rating: 9 / 10
This book explains what Resistance. Resistance is the reason why it is so difficult for us to get started when we are about to do something difficult and important. The book also shares how to beat Resistance so we can get the work done.
