Library

Personal Growth / Motivational

125 books in this section — 52 with a full summary so far

0021% Mỗi Ngày – Không Ngừng Chinh Phục Bản Thân— Ngô Di Lân
1% Mỗi Ngày – Không Ngừng Chinh Phục Bản Thân is a personal-development book by Vietnamese researcher and writer Ngô Di Lân, published by NXB Trẻ in 2022 and aimed specifically at readers aged 16 to 25. The book is structured as a series of letters written to a younger sibling…
00721 Bí Mật Của Những Nhà Diễn Thuyết Tài Ba Nhất Lịch Sử (Vietnamese edition of Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers)— James C. Humes
21 Bí Mật Của Những Nhà Diễn Thuyết Tài Ba Nhất Lịch Sử is the Vietnamese translation, published by Thái Hà Books through NXB Lao Động, of James C. Humes's Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln. W…
018Ai Lấy Miếng Pho Mát Của Tôi? (Vietnamese edition of Who Moved My Cheese?)— Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese? is a short business parable about how people respond to unexpected change, told through four characters who live in a maze in constant search of "cheese" — a metaphor for whatever a person wants most in life, whether that's a job, financial security, love,…
377Atomic Habits— James Clear
Atomic Habits argues that meaningful life change rarely comes from one dramatic overhaul — it comes from small, consistent adjustments that compound over time, the same way money grows through compound interest. Clear's central claim is that habits are the atomic units of…
024Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny— Tony Robbins
Awaken the Giant Within is Tony Robbins's foundational personal development book, built around a central claim: the quality of a person's life is determined not by their circumstances but by the decisions they make and the meaning they attach to events. The book opens by arguing…
036Bí Quyết Của Thành Công (The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People)— David Niven, Ph.D.
The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People is built on an unusual premise: rather than offering the author's personal opinions on success, David Niven, a psychologist and social scientist, mined more than a thousand academic studies on achievement, workplace behavior, and…
046Cảm Xúc Là Kẻ Thù Số Một Của Thành Công— TS. Lê Thẩm Dương (compiled/ghostwritten by journalist Nguyễn Tuấn Anh)
Cảm Xúc Là Kẻ Thù Số Một Của Thành Công ("Emotion Is the Number One Enemy of Success") is a Vietnamese-market self-help book compiled from the talks, lectures, and interviews of Dr. Lê Thẩm Dương, a well-known Vietnamese business lecturer and head of the Business Administration…
048Chiến Thắng Con Quỷ Trong Bạn (Vietnamese edition of *Outwitting the Devil*)— Napoleon Hill
*Outwitting the Devil* is Napoleon Hill's strangest and most personal book — written in 1938 in the shadow of the Depression, then shelved by his own family for decades because they thought it too dark and unorthodox to publish, and released only in 2011. It takes the form of an…
055Đắc Nhân Tâm (Vietnamese edition of *How to Win Friends and Influence People*)— Dale Carnegie
*How to Win Friends and Influence People*, published by Dale Carnegie in 1936 and known in Vietnamese as *Đắc Nhân Tâm* (roughly, "winning people's hearts"), is one of the best-selling and most enduring self-help books ever written, and remains a perennial bestseller in Vietnam…
035Dale Carnegie – Bậc Thầy Của Nghệ Thuật Giao Tiếp (Bí Quyết Của Nghệ Thuật Giao Tiếp)— Trương Tú Anh & Phùng Chấn Dực (compiled from Dale Carnegie's teachings)
This Vietnamese title is a compiled introduction to Dale Carnegie's ideas on communication, written not by Carnegie himself but by two Chinese-language authors, Trương Tú Anh and Phùng Chấn Dực, whose work was subsequently translated into Vietnamese. " The book is organized…
057Dám Nghĩ Lại (Vietnamese edition of *Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know*)— Adam Grant
*Think Again*, published by organizational psychologist Adam Grant in 2021, argues that the ability to rethink and unlearn — to treat one's own opinions and identities as hypotheses to be tested rather than possessions to be defended — is an underrated cognitive skill, distinct…
065Discover Your Destiny with the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: The 7 Stages of Self-Awakening— Robin Sharma
"Discover Your Destiny" is a sequel to Robin Sharma's bestselling fable "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari," following a new protagonist, Dar Sanderson — a middle-aged human resources manager who appears outwardly successful but feels a persistent, unnamed dissatisfaction with his…
127Đọc Vị Bất Kỳ Ai (You Can Read Anyone)— T.S. David J. Lieberman
** "Kế Toán Vỉa Hè" is the Vietnamese title of "The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand" by Darrell Mullis and Judith Orloff — a basic-accounting primer that has nothing to do with David J. Lieberman. "Đọc Vị Bất Kỳ Ai" is the Vietnamese title of…
068Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us— Daniel H. Pink
"Drive" argues that the traditional carrot-and-stick model of motivation — rewarding desired behavior and punishing undesired behavior — is not just outdated but actively counterproductive for the kind of creative, complex, judgment-based work that increasingly dominates modern…
070Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time— Brian Tracy
* opens with a simple metaphor: if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. Brian Tracy uses "the frog" to mean your biggest, most important, most likely-to-be-procrastinated-on task, and the entire book is a…
074Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less— Greg McKeown
Essentialism argues that the default state of modern professional life — saying yes to almost everything, chasing every opportunity, trying to do it all — is not a sign of ambition but a trap that guarantees mediocre results across many things instead of excellent results on the…
082Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow presents psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's decades of research into what he calls "optimal experience" — the state people across radically different activities and cultures describe in nearly identical terms: complete absorption in a task, a merging of action and…
087Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field— Brian Tracy
Get Smart! is Brian Tracy's argument that intelligence, in the sense that actually predicts success, is less about raw IQ and more about a learnable set of thinking habits that most people simply never develop. Tracy opens with a provocative framing: the average person uses only…
091Giao Tiếp Thông Minh (best-guess identification: Vietnamese translation of *How to Talk to Anyone: How to Charm, Banter, Attract, & Captivate*)— Patrick King (best-guess identification — see note below)
Giao Tiếp Thông Minh, based on its Vietnamese publisher description, is presented as a practical social-skills guide by Patrick King, an internationally bestselling author and self-described former shy introvert who built a career reverse-engineering conversation and social…
095Goals! How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible— Brian Tracy
" is Brian Tracy's flagship distillation of decades spent studying and teaching goal achievement, structured as a sequential, 21-step system that takes a reader from raw ambition to a concrete, executable plan. Tracy opens with his own origin story — a high school dropout doing…
097Golf: Những Bí Mật Về Môn Thể Thao Quý Tộc (Golf: Secrets of the Noble Sport)— Bùi Xuân Phong
"Golf: Những Bí Mật Về Môn Thể Thao Quý Tộc" (subtitled, per its publisher, "Từ Clubhouse Đến Hố 18" — "From the Clubhouse to the 18th Hole") is a Vietnamese-language book by author Bùi Xuân Phong focused on the business and operational side of the golf industry, rather than…
099Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance— Angela Duckworth
Grit presents psychologist Angela Duckworth's research argument that sustained passion and perseverance toward long-term goals — what she calls "grit" — predicts achievement across wildly different domains (West Point cadets completing a grueling training program, National…
117How to Stop Worrying and Start Living— Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie wrote *How to Stop Worrying and Start Living* in 1948, over a decade after his landmark *How to Win Friends and Influence People*, drawing on his own early adult struggles with anxiety — he describes himself in the preface as having been one of the unhappiest young…
119How to Win Friends and Influence People— Dale Carnegie
First published in 1936, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People distills decades of his public-speaking and interpersonal-skills courses into a set of concrete, repeatable habits for getting along with — and appropriately influencing — other people. The book…
126Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone— Mark Goulston
Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist with a background working with police hostage negotiation training, and Just Listen applies techniques originally developed for defusing extremely high-stakes, resistant conversations to the much more ordinary problem of getting through to people…
129Khéo Ăn Nói Sẽ Có Được Thiên Hạ (Skillful Speech Wins the World)— Trác Nhã
Khéo Ăn Nói Sẽ Có Được Thiên Hạ is a Vietnamese translation of a Chinese communication-skills book by Trác Nhã, a psychology-trained author known in the Chinese and Vietnamese self-help markets for a series of accessible, example-driven books on interpersonal communication. The…
146Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life— Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik's Limitless is built around a single reframe: that most people's sense of their own intellectual limits — "I'm bad at math," "I have a terrible memory," "I'm just not a reader" — is a learned belief rather than a fixed biological fact, and that specific, teachable…
155Master Your Time (Vietnamese edition; English original: *Master Your Time, Master Your Life*)— Brian Tracy
*Master Your Time, Master Your Life* is Brian Tracy's later-career synthesis of his decades of productivity teaching, built around a single reframe: the usual time-management problem isn't a shortage of hours, it's a failure to sort activities into the right kind of time. Tracy…
157Maximum Achievement: The Proven System of Strategies and Techniques for Success— Brian Tracy
*Maximum Achievement* is Brian Tracy's broadest early synthesis of personal-development principles, built around the claim that success is not the product of luck or circumstance but of applying a learnable, repeatable set of mental and behavioral disciplines. The book's…
160Mindset: The New Psychology of Success— Dr. Carol S. Dweck
Mindset distills decades of Carol Dweck's research into a single, deceptively simple idea: the belief you hold about whether ability is fixed or developable changes almost everything about how you pursue goals, handle setbacks, and relate to other people. Dweck calls these two…
168Nâng Tầm Tư Duy Với Phương Pháp Ghi Nhớ 1 Phút— Takashi Ishii
"Nâng Tầm Tư Duy Với Phương Pháp Ghi Nhớ 1 Phút" is a short, practically oriented Japanese self-help book by Takashi Ishii, part of a popular "1-minute" skills series (alongside companion titles on note-taking, logical thinking, and conversation) translated into Vietnamese and…
169Never Eat Alone— Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz
Never Eat Alone makes a blunt claim: career and business outcomes are driven far more by the depth and generosity of a person's relationships than by raw talent, credentials, or hard work in isolation. Ferrazzi's target is the common failure mode where networking gets treated as…
170Never Split the Difference— Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
Never Split the Difference distills Chris Voss's career as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator into a direct challenge to how most people think negotiation works. Voss argues that the conventional wisdom - built on rational compromise, 'win-win' frameworks, and…
172Nghệ Thuật Ghi Chép— Nguyễn Hiến Lê
Nghệ Thuật Ghi Chép ("The Art of Note-Taking") belongs to Nguyễn Hiến Lê's broader body of practical self-cultivation writing, sitting alongside his well-known works on self-study method and personal organization aimed at Vietnamese readers wanting to work, read, and study more…
174Nghệ Thuật Lôi Cuốn Đối Phương Trò Chuyện Trong 1 Phút— Takashi Ishii
"Nghệ Thuật Lôi Cuốn Đối Phương Trò Chuyện Trong 1 Phút" ("The Art of Drawing the Other Person Into Conversation in 1 Minute") is a companion volume to Takashi Ishii's memory-technique book in the same Japanese "1-minute" skills series, this time focused on conversational skill…
178Nghĩ Giàu Làm Giàu (Think and Grow Rich, Vietnamese edition, Yuan Phong translation)— Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich grew out of a twenty-year research project Napoleon Hill said he undertook at the urging of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who wanted someone to distill the common traits of America's wealthiest self-made men into a teachable system. Hill interviewed and…
182Nhà Lãnh Đạo Không Chức Danh (The Leader Who Had No Title, Vietnamese edition)— Robin Sharma
The Leader Who Had No Title is a business fable, in the tradition of Robin Sharma's earlier The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, built around a young, disillusioned retail employee named Blake Davis who is unexpectedly mentored by four unusual teachers after a difficult period of…
191Pathways to Success & Happiness: Your Personal Workbook for the Journey of Self-Discovery— Sharon Pearson
Pathways to Success & Happiness is not a conventional narrative or argument-driven book — it's a companion workbook designed by Sharon Pearson, founder of The Coaching Institute in Australia, meant to be opened at random rather than read cover to cover. Each spread pairs a short…
199Phượng Hoàng Tái Sinh: 12 Phẩm Chất Quan Trọng Để Bứt Phá Sự Nghiệp Và Cuộc Sống— Brian Tracy
Phượng Hoàng Tái Sinh ("Phoenix Reborn"), subtitled "12 Important Qualities to Break Through Your Career and Life," is a Vietnamese-market self-development title attributed to Brian Tracy, structured around twelve chapters, each built around a specific quality or discipline the…
201Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade— Robert Cialdini
Robert Cialdini spent decades studying persuasion after his landmark book *Influence*, and *Pre-Suasion* answers a question that book left open: how do skilled persuaders get people ready to say yes before the actual request is even made? Cialdini's core claim is that the moment…
203Public Speaking for Success— Dale Carnegie
*Public Speaking for Success* is a compiled and updated edition of Dale Carnegie's original public-speaking material, most of it drawn from his early-20th-century courses and books, including *Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business* and *The Quick and Easy Way to…
208Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking— Susan Cain
Quiet argues that mainstream American culture — and, by extension, much of the global business and education systems it has influenced — developed a specific, historically recent bias toward extroversion: prizing boldness, fast talk, and group charisma as the default signs of…
211Quyết Đoán Trong Tư Duy Logic - 1 Phút (likely: Rèn Luyện Kỹ Năng Tư Duy Logic Trong 1 Phút / "One-Minute Logical Thinking Training")— Katsumi Nishimura (best-match identification — see Source Notes)
*Rèn Luyện Kỹ Năng Tư Duy Logic 1 Phút* is a practical, exercise-driven guide to logical thinking by Japanese author Katsumi Nishimura, built around a distinctive question-and-answer format: each concept is introduced through a specific problem or puzzle that the reader is asked…
221Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life— Richard Branson
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life is Richard Branson's short, aphoristic memoir-as-manual, distilled from decades of building the Virgin Group from a teenage magazine and a mail-order record business into a brand spanning music, airlines, mobile phones, and eventually…
224Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered— Austin Kleon
Show Your Work! is Austin Kleon's follow-up to his earlier book Steal Like an Artist, and it addresses a specific problem the first book left open: once you've learned how to find inspiration and generate creative work by building on what came before, how do you actually get…
229So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love— Cal Newport
Cal Newport opens with a provocation: "follow your passion" — arguably the most repeated piece of career advice in modern culture — is not just unhelpful but actively damaging, and it rarely describes how genuinely satisfied professionals actually built their careers. Drawing on…
230Sống Đời Hạnh Phúc – Khắc Phục Lo Âu Để Vui Sống (Vietnamese edition of *How to Stop Worrying and Start Living*)— Dale Carnegie
First published in English in 1948 as *How to Stop Worrying and Start Living*, this book is Dale Carnegie's attempt to do for anxiety what his earlier *How to Win Friends and Influence People* did for interpersonal relationships: distill a large body of interviews, case…
233Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life— Michael Port
Michael Port, a former professional actor turned business coach, builds this book around a single reframing: every high-stakes moment in professional and personal life — a speech, a job interview, a sales pitch, a difficult conversation — is a performance, whether we choose to…
249The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People— Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People argues that lasting effectiveness in work and life is built from the inside out: genuine character — integrity, humility, fairness, courage — rather than the surface-level "personality ethic" of quick-fix techniques, charm, and image…
038The Definitive Book of Body Language— Allan Pease & Barbara Pease
The Definitive Book of Body Language is Allan and Barbara Pease's expanded, science-updated successor to Allan's earlier 1981 bestseller Body Language, rebuilt around three decades of additional research from evolutionary biology, psychology, and brain-imaging studies. The…
306The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results— Gary Keller with Jay Papasan
Gary Keller's central argument is that success is not the result of doing many things adequately, but of identifying the single most important thing at any given time and giving it disproportionate focus — everything else is either in service of that one thing or a distraction…
325Think and Grow Rich— Napoleon Hill
First published in 1937 after Napoleon Hill spent roughly two decades studying successful figures of his era (Andrew Carnegie, who reportedly commissioned the study, along with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and others), Think and Grow Rich distills what Hill claimed was a…

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