r/getdisciplined · 2023

Most-mentioned books in r/getdisciplined during 2023

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/getdisciplined within the published source unit for 2023. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

Books ranked

Tracked mentions in 2023

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.

12 in 2023

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.

4 in 2023

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.

3 in 2023

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 2023

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

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

3 in 2023

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 2023

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.

2 in 2023

The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson

Jeff Olson's core argument: the actions that would change your life are easy to do, which is exactly why they're easy not to do.

2 in 2023

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 2023

#10

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 2023

#11

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday's case for subordinating ego to craft draws 41 Reddit mentions, most from r/Stoicism, where the book is treated as a gateway to the primary sources.

1 in 2023

#12

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

1 in 2023

#13

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 2023

#14

Spark

John J. Ratey

John Ratey lays out the neuroscience case that aerobic exercise changes how the brain learns, regulates mood, and manages anxiety — the primary mechanism, not a side effect.

1 in 2023

#15

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.

1 in 2023

#16

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

1 in 2023

#17

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.

1 in 2023

#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 2023