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Best-selling author Rainer Zitelmann in this book “How People Become Famous – Geniuses of Self-Marketing from Albert Einstein to Kim Kardashian” shares insights on how 12 of the most successful self-promoters of all time achieved their extraordinary fame. 

The celebrities featured come from a variety of backgrounds from politics to sport, fashion, show business, and science. They include Albert Einstein, Karl Lagerfeld, Stephen Hawking, Muhammad Ali, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, Princess Diana, and Kim Kardashian,

Each celebrities chapter comes with a good description of the person and also the tools that each celebrity use to build his or her brand.

Overall this concise and practical book offers useful learnings for anyone wanting to create their own successful personal brand and become famous.

Professor Grace Lordan offers in this “Think Big” book practical actionable solutions and tips that will help you get a tiny bit closer to your dream career, every day. 

Learn amongst things on how to embrace opportunities, rewrite critical self-narratives, overcome the fear of failure, and spot people’s bias that is holding you back. 

The book is easy to read and evidence based with lots of behavioural science concepts. Think Big provides a practical framework to keep you moving in the right direction.  Overall, this is a useful and action-oriented book that will assist you to reinvent your life and propel you forward in making your dreams a reality.

Esther Wojcicki (Woj) the Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness (TRICK).

She is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. Simple lessons, but the results are radical.
This practical and insightful book offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential.  A great book to have.

Be Extraordinary by author Jennifer Wild reveals a life-changing formula that will lead us on the path to being extraordinary even when we encounter setbacks along the way.
She has discovered that overcoming adversity and becoming extraordinary tap the same factor.  People who flourish with or without trauma as their catalyst naturally draw on seven key processes – the unwavering belief in recovering against all odds, the conviction to reach one’s goals, the courage to focus on the future rather than the past, and the invaluable, necessary conscious and continuous process of updating out-dated memories and self-concepts. These factors drive people to overcome adversity. They drive people to become extraordinary. This book is about what those factors are, how to get them and why they work.  This is a very readable and great book to have.

This book by author Rainer Zitelmann studies the lives of 50 extraordinarily successful women and men – most of them entrepreneurs, but also top managers, athletes, entertainers and others – to find out what distinguishes them and the lessons that we can all learn. What really sets these highly successful and rich individuals apart includes:
– their courage to be different from the majority of those around them
– they challenge traditional ways of thinking,
– they set their goals and ambitions considerably higher than most people,
–  they never take ‘no’ for an answer and many others.
Their stories serve as powerful guidelines for anyone who wants to aim higher and achieve much more than those around you. 
Packed with useful advice and entertaining anecdotes, this will be a great book to have. 

The Art of a Successful Life by Author Rainer Zitelmann collates a myriad of quotes and his comments,  all of which offer wisdom and insights to inspire you to think about yourself, your life and your goals, and to give you the confidence and strength to cope with difficult situations.

In this book, you will find quotes from a range of thinkers: from the physicist Stephen Hawking to the artist Michelangelo, and from entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett to Confucius, Cicero, Schopenhauer and Goethe. In bringing them together, the author provides an original,  practical and useful guide to everyday life. 

University of Michigan Business School professor and author, Paula J. Caproni, Ph.D., provides you with a concise and practical framework that will help you be successful in your career and enjoy a fulfilling life outside of work.  This book answers these three main questions:
1) What do the most successful people do differently than other people?
(2) How can those characteristics and behaviors be learned?
(3) How can you apply these lessons to your own life?
In this book, you will learn four important key strategies that successful people use. No matter who you are, if you’re interested in achieving the success in life then this book is designed for you.

In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve. 

The Success Principles author Jack Canfield in this book will help you get from where you are to where you want to be. Includes teaching you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. Filled with memorable and inspiring stories of CEO’s, world-class athletes, celebrities, and everyday people, it spells out the 64 timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history–proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

This small book provides a blueprint for achieving wealth, loaded with the most salient prosperity wisdom of the last hundred years. 
Each of the chapters focuses on one of the twelve principles Those principles are:

  1. Goals
  2. Dreams
  3. Perseverance
  4. Growth
  5. Self-Confidence
  6. Imagination
  7. Self-Talk
  8. Master Minds
  9. Play
  10. Decisions
  11. Taking Action
  12. Giving Back

You are what you think you are.  Zig Ziglar will show you the secrets to developing a successful self-image in this book “You’re a Natural Champion”. Topics include:

  • Identifying the characteristics of a poor self-image
  • Increasing your self-esteem
  • Creating healthy relationships
  • Linking success to the self-image
  • Positive communication with others

Read this uplifting book and gain the motivation and focus to stay positive and improve your life in every way.

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