Smart Thinking Books

Life Changing Smart Thinking Books

Life Changing Smart Thinking Books

Each one of these five books has the potential to help you change your life by helping you negotiate well, manage your money, re-assess work, shore-up your mental outlook and optimise your decisions. Check out some short reviews of each below, combined with affiliate links to a number of online bookshops where you can buy each book.


Never Split The Difference - Negotiating as if your life depended on it

Never Split The Difference - Negotiating as if your life depended on it

Chris Voss with Tahl Raz

Learn real world techniques from former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss to help persuade your boss that your pay rise is their idea! The book is full of useful tips and tricks to reposition an argument and also has some great hostage stories thrown in to keep you page-turning.

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Book Depository €7.66 Waterstones £9.99 Amazon UK £6.56 Amazon US $9.49

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Money: A User's Guide

Money: A User's Guide

Laura Whateley

Laura demystifies every aspect of money management in plain language with plenty of tips and techniques that everyone should know. Most of the services and resources are UK centric but most of the topics are as universal as cash.

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Book Depository €6.70 Waterstones £7.99 Amazon UK £5.74 Amazon US $12.51

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The 4-Hour Work Week : Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

The 4-Hour Work Week : Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss

The book that spawned the lifestyle business sector. While some of the resources are now out-of-date, the mindset shift and techniques described by Tim hold true as much today as in 2007. Optimisation and efficiency of time are key in the quest to deploy your efforts towards your own life goals rather than those of your employer. This book has very much been the red pill for many entrepreneurs over the years.

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Book Depository €10.46 Waterstones £12.99 Amazon UK £8.96 Amazon US $7.91

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

The Daily Stoic distills the wisdom of the Stoics into one quote and interpretative paragraph per day. Philisophical insights from Stoic giants such as Marcus Aurelius and Seneca feature heavily along side lesser known practitioners such as Zeno and Musonius Rufus. The beauty of this book in the hand is matched by its promotion of continual practice; once you finish you can start again on page 1 and continue to gleen value from it amidst the backdrop of the ever changing context of modern life.

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Book Depository €9.24 Waterstones £10.99 Amazon UK £7.91 Amazon US $17.80

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Principles: Life and Work

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio

Investment giant Ray Dalio lifts the lid on the principles for success in life and work that he has battle-tested over the last 40+ years. Following a short but interesting auto-biography, which gives you more than anything else the measure of Ray's modesty and good character, the book elegantly presents a fascinating set of categorised life and work principles, complete with descriptions, rationales and diagrams for consumption and deployment in your own life. A life-hack book to read and frequently reference.

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Book Depository €17.13 Waterstones £25.00 Amazon UK £14.67 Amazon US $14.99

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Image Copyrights: Cornerstone (Never Split The Difference), HarperCollins Publishers (Money), Ebury Publishing (The 4-Hour Work Week), Profile Books Ltd (The Daily Stoic), Simon & Schuster (Principles)

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