10 Must Read Self-Help Books For Gen Z, Part 2
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There’s no better time for self improvement than right now! For Gen Zs (and Millenials and Gen-Alphas) looking to upgrade themselves, these 10 books dole out sage advice perfect for navigating the trials and tribulations of the 21st century. Featuring easy-going language and relatable how-to’s tailor-made for modern challenges, these self-help books could, and should, be your best friends ASAP.
Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World
From licensed clinical psychologist and TikTok therapist Dr. Lauren Cook, Generation Anxiety is a practical guide aimed at Millennials and Gen Z for tackling anxiety. With the rapid influx of information inundating us every second, it’s so easy to get anxious in this day and age. Gen Zs, who grow up as native digital users, often suffer from it the most. This book aims to help the young generations understand the confusing and disorienting world that triggers anxiety. This is after all, a generation who has to contend with stuff like climate change, political polarization, systemic racism, gun violence, and financial instability, in addition to balancing work and personal lives. Using feminist and intersectional approaches, the book applies for everyone. Its practical step-by-step guidance also makes it easy to digest.
It's OK to Feel Things Deeply by Carissa Porter
From Carissa Potter, whose stationery and gift line, People I've Loved, has been featured on Design Sponge, Cool Hunting, and Apartment Therapy. This one’s for the ladies. This colorfully illustrated book doles out bite-sized wisdoms for women navigating the many challenges in life. From adulting to relationships, this pocket book is ready to remind you to breathe and take time to just feel things. So often, the fast pace of life makes you feel like there’s no time to process all your emotions, but Porter’s book is here to help you cope at every step of the way.
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How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More by Veronica Dearly
Smart, humorous and honest life advice from Veronica Dearly, a much-loved illustrator with a unique visual brand. With pages after pages of witty illustrations from the author, the book provides plenty of life advices related to typical predicaments faced by Gen Zs: from mental health, mindset, and the dangers of overthinking to fitness and body image, career, love, spirituality, family, money, fun and friends to finding your direction, setting your own goals, and preparing for change. With a humorous tone and eye-catching illustrations, this book will brighten up your day while giving you some much-needed life lessons.
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Books about making money are a dime a dozen. But books about understanding money? That is something else. With knowledge accumulated from years of research, this book will teach you all about your financial habits, where it comes from, and what to do with it. Instead of spreadsheets and pie charts, people in the real world make their financial decisions in the confines of their private spaces – this has a lot to do with your upbringing and surroundings. With 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money, Housel dishes out sage advice to manage your finances with more awareness.
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Out of Office by Charlie Warzel
The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken. The pandemic introduced a worldwide-spanning habit that’s become the new normal: working from home. In this book, Warzel helps you make sense of your relationship with work, the subtle impact of work from home for work-life balance and what the future is gonna look like. Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with workers and managers around the world, Out of Office illuminates the key values and questions that should be driving this conversation: trust, fairness, flexibility, inclusive workplaces, equity, and work-life balance.
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Radically Happy by Phakchok Rinpoche
East meets West in this fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life. Work-life balance is a crucial issue faced by Gen Zs. This book, a collaboration by respected Tibetan young leader Rinpoche and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Solomon, attempts to strike that balance between professionalism and personal happiness in a book that combines their opposing lines of thinking into a radical new method intertwining the best of both worlds.
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life By Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
“Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb This modern reinterpretation of the old Japanese philosophy Ikigai takes the sage wisdom from the Land of the Sun and applies it to soul-searching young people. Ikigai is the art of finding your purpose, essentially. Based on interviews with Japanese people who manage to live happy and contented lives to old ages, this book will answer your questions regarding life purpose and happiness.
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Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this New York Times bestselling book, Newport will guide Gen Z readers to manage their relationships with technology. With comprehensive research and interviews with people of various backgrounds – from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers – Newport identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them.
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Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art By James Nestor
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. A New York Times bestseller and NPR’s Best Book of 2020, this book’s in-depth research and data unveil invaluable insights about the act of breathing. Drawn from the author’s own life-changing experience and cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, this book will radically change what you think you know about your respiratory system in fascinating ways.
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Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle By Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Burnout is perhaps the most oft-mentioned word in Gen Z’s vernacular. This groundbreaking book explains how burnout differs between genders and doles out a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. With its practical step-by-step guides, say goodbye to exhaustion and take back control of your biological stress cycle.
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