Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in Self-Help (all time)

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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Gary Chapman

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

Tim S. Grover, Shari Wenk, et al.

4.9 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less

Cal Newport

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

Russell A. Barkley PhD, Paul Costanzo, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

Gabor Maté

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good

Kimberly Ann Johnson

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Annie Grace

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

What I Love About You

Frankie Jones

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators (FARRAR, STRAUS)

Richard Williams

4.8 on Amazon

5 HN comments

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Power

Rhonda Byrne and Simon & Schuster Audio

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Man and His Symbols

Carl G. Jung

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)

Gretchen Rubin

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

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elchiefonNov 24, 2018

Dr. Maté's Scattered Minds is an excellent book for those dealing with ADHD

I've read it, and it blew my mind how it described my various quirks, which I thought were unique to me, but are common to those that suffer ADHD

ravishionOct 31, 2017

Hey, I just want to thank for a book recommendation of yours I picked up in another thread. Didn't find any other way of contacting you, so here we are. Scattered Minds: this book has just changed my life. Thank you so much, kind internet stranger.

elchiefonAug 11, 2020

If you suffer ADHD, I strongly recommend reading Scattered Minds, by Gabor Mate. I found it enlightening

have_faithonSep 6, 2017

A book that I read that described this very well for me: Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate.

Would highly recommend anyone to read. Revealed a lot about what motivates me. It covers things like only being able to focus on something you find interesting, and doing so for crazy amounts of time (Hyperfocus), while being unable to focus on a very simple task that is of no interest for even a moment.

Edit: I have a deadline in 5 hours time and I'm checking HN. I only work well under pressure...

nicolashahnonNov 6, 2019

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate.

ewsonJan 24, 2020

I am surprised nobody has mentioned Gabor Mate's book Scattered Minds (Scattered in the US) which talks about his theory that AD(H)D is just a cope mechanism derived from childhood attachment issues or trauma with their primary caretakers.

After being diagnosed with ADD, and having rejected drugs, this is the first text that has allowed me to first get all the puzzle pieces in front of me and then let me build a proper picture of everything that has been happening to me for the last 20+ years.

I know I am getting late to the conversation and probably this comment will be buried, but I would strongly recommend anybody suffering from this to take a look at this book. It has been eye opening and healing as no other text has.

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