• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Non-Fiction audiobook recommendations?

Status
Not open for further replies.
B

Banglish

Member
I'm looking to dig into audiobooks for when I go out on my walks specifically ones that delve with life, meditation, philosophy, growth, overcoming obstacles, motivation. Could you guys recommend me some of that nature please?!

I really wanted to get into Alan Watts but he seems to use a vocabulary higher than I can comprehend :(
 
I really enjoyed The Productivity Project. It addresses meditation as well as a whole slew of other self-improvement tactics. It's read by the author - an expressive and enthusiastic guy who loves productivity. Great read. I mean "listen"

The idea behind the book is the author dedicated a year of his life testing out various productivity techniques and then measures their impact on his life and talks about what he found.
 
I've been in a very similar situation lately and have found a few good ones.

Pema Chodron is my new favorite author right now. She is a Buddhist nun that speaks on meditation and mitigating shenpa (attachments/vices). She has a very pleasant speaking voice and gets her meaning across very well. I just finished "Getting Unstuck", and I'm about to start "The Three Commitments." "When Things Fall Apart" is also phenomenal.
 
I recently listened to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. It's short and the audio quality is poor, but the content is excellent. It's a wonderful introduction to Zen Buddhism. Highly recommended.
 
Man's Search for Meaning

One of those quotes which has most influenced me:
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
 
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Dr. Thomas Stanley I was so inspired when I read this book. All my life I’ve been pretty good with money, having an aversion to paying interest and always scouring pawn shops and clearance racks for good deals on video games and movies. But this book reaffirmed some of the principles that I have chosen to live my life by, and not only that, but it brought to light that there are other crazy people like me out there.

How to win friends & influence people by Dale Carnegie This book was originally published in 1936. Over 16 million copies sold later, its lessons are still as valid today. Don’t let the ‘win friends’ in the title turn you off, there is a great deal of guidance to help develop interpersonal communication skills, something that is required for personal growth.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey Another classic. This book helped provide perspective to different activities and their importance in my life (Covey’s time management matrix). For example, many of us will perceive something that is urgent (like checking our phones every time we receive a text or off-topic call) as important when it is not. Whereas items that are important, but not urgent (like exercise), we need to plan and follow through to do them. This book teaches us how.

The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris While I am not following the path the author took, there are many great takeaways that I received that I’m trying to implement, such as finding ways to reduce or eliminate unnecessary tasks that consume our time. I really enjoyed Tim’s approach to handling email. I also found the narrator to be very enjoyable.
 
If you're into sports/competition and the mental side of that kind of thing(not sure going by the OP if that would count or not) "Inner Game of Tennis" is a classic.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Any fiction readers on here?
2
54
863
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt replied
Soundbar recommendations?
15
494
SScorpio replied
Home office recommendations
17
375
Audiophile replied
Movies that are "one long night" (Your recommendations)
2
69
227
StreetsofBeige replied
Claude Cowork, agentic AI for non-technical workers
1
358
Artistic replied
Top Bottom