r/getdisciplined · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/getdisciplined during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/getdisciplined within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2024

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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.

12 in 2024

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.

6 in 2024

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.

5 in 2024

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.

4 in 2024

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.

2 in 2024

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Robert A. Glover

A therapist diagnoses the Nice Guy syndrome — covert contracts, approval-seeking, hidden resentment — and explains why it makes men worse partners and worse people.

2 in 2024

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.

2 in 2024

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 2024

Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday's Stoic case for self-mastery: the same argument as Ego Is the Enemy, this time aimed at the body and the calendar.

1 in 2024

#10

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.

1 in 2024

#11

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

You get about four thousand weeks total, and Oliver Burkeman spends the whole book arguing your to-do list was never going to fit inside them.

1 in 2024

#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 2024

#13

Grit

Angela Duckworth

A psychologist studies West Point cadets, spelling bee kids, and salespeople to find one trait that predicts who finishes what they start.

1 in 2024

#14

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

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

1 in 2024

#15

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 2024

#16

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.

1 in 2024

#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 2024

#18

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.

1 in 2024