r/getdisciplined · 2020

Most-mentioned books in r/getdisciplined during 2020

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/getdisciplined within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

Books ranked

Tracked mentions in 2020

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

Atomic Habits

James Clear

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

18 in 2020

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

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

5 in 2020

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 2020

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

A former marketing exec turns Marcus Aurelius' private notebook into a playbook for whatever just went wrong in your week.

3 in 2020

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.

2 in 2020

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Csikszentmihalyi spent decades interviewing artists to explain why total immersion in hard work beats effortless pleasure every time.

2 in 2020

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.

2 in 2020

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.

2 in 2020

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 2020

#10

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.

1 in 2020

#11

Eat That Frog!

Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy's 21-chapter argument that you should do the worst task on your list first, every morning, without negotiating with yourself.

1 in 2020

#12

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.

1 in 2020

#13

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.

1 in 2020

#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 2020

#15

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist survives three concentration camps and concludes the ones who lived weren't the strongest, they were the ones who still had a reason to.

1 in 2020

#16

The Compound Effect

Darren Hardy

Darren Hardy's argument that small consistent choices compound into large results — and that most people underestimate that gap until it's too late to ignore.

1 in 2020

#17

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday turns Stoic philosophy into one page per day, and r/Stoicism argues about whether that makes it a gateway or a ceiling.

1 in 2020

#18

Tiny Habits

BJ Fogg

A Stanford behavior scientist argues that the smallest version of a habit — not willpower — is the one that actually sticks.

1 in 2020