r/getdisciplined · 2019

Most-mentioned books in r/getdisciplined during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/getdisciplined within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2019

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Atomic Habits

James Clear

James Clear argues that habits built two minutes at a time compound, over a year, into a completely different person.

10 in 2019

Feeling Good

David D. Burns

David Burns hands depressed readers a list of ten named thinking errors and a worksheet to catch themselves making one.

5 in 2019

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg explains the cue-routine-reward loop behind every habit, then argues that changing the routine is the only lever you actually control.

5 in 2019

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

Before you fix your calendar, this book makes you write a personal mission statement about what you're scheduling around in the first place.

4 in 2019

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

Mark Manson's case that choosing what to care about is the only self-help move that actually matters.

4 in 2019

Getting Things Done

David Allen

A management consultant argues your brain is for having ideas, not storing them, and hands you a five-step system to empty it.

3 in 2019

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

A 1936 salesman's manual argues you'll get further remembering someone's name and asking about their day than by being right.

3 in 2019

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Cal Newport keeps his phone in a drawer and his calendar walled off in four-hour blocks, and argues that's the only way anyone still produces work that matters.

2 in 2019

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

A Stanford psychologist argues that believing your abilities can grow is itself the ability that determines whether they do.

2 in 2019

#10

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

Nathaniel Branden's clinical case that self-esteem is built on six named practices — and that fixing surface behavior without them doesn't hold.

2 in 2019

#11

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield names the force that keeps you from starting the novel, the workout, or the startup — he calls it Resistance — then tells you how to outlast it.

2 in 2019

#12

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson

Twelve numbered rules, starting with standing up straight and ending with petting any cat you meet on the street.

1 in 2019

#13

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

A Navy SEAL turned ultra-runner narrates his own worst years first, then explains how he used them as training.

1 in 2019

#14

Make It Stick

Peter C. Brown

Three cognitive psychologists spend a decade in the lab proving your rereading habit is a waste of time and testing yourself is what actually works.

1 in 2019

#15

Make Your Bed

William H. McRaven

A retired Navy SEAL admiral turns his university commencement speech into ten rules, starting with the one nobody argues with: make your bed.

1 in 2019

#16

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

A Roman emperor writes himself private notes on how to stop losing his temper, never expecting anyone else to read them, and two thousand years later everyone has.

1 in 2019

#17

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell argues that talent alone never explains success, it's the birth month, the zip code, and the ten thousand hours nobody sees.

1 in 2019

#18

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A man on the verge of suicide has a single night that ends the self he thought he was and leaves behind a guide to living without it.

1 in 2019