Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. The Tao of Pooh
How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity
TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking: Tips and tricks for giving unforgettable speeches and presentations The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever Micromastery: 39 Little Skills to Help You Find Happiness The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert) The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Self-help books that actually help

By Tim Harford

By Tim Harford

Self-help books that actually help

Self-help is a much-mocked section of the bookstore, and in truth there is much to mock. However I have a soft spot for certain self-help books that I have found useful over the years. These ones get my vote.

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam Grant

£25.00
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

£18.99
£18.04
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life....

Oliver Burkeman

£10.99
£10.44
The Tao of Pooh

The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff and E. H. Shepard

£8.99
£8.54
How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond

How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a...

Caroline Webb

£12.99
£12.34
HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

Oliver Burkeman

£10.99
£10.44
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cal Newport

£10.99
£10.44
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity

David Allen

£14.99
£14.24
TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking: Tips and tricks for giving unforgettable speeches and presentations

TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking: Tips...

Chris Anderson

£10.99
£10.44
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way...

MARIE KONDO

£14.99
£14.24
Micromastery: 39 Little Skills to Help You Find Happiness

Micromastery: 39 Little Skills to Help You Find Happiness

Robert Twigger

£9.99
£9.49
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

£10.99
£10.44
A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)

A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You...

Cal Newport

£14.99
£14.24
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

CHARLES DUHIGG

£11.99
£11.39
Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

Ayelet Fishbach

£20.00