Mindset Books: 20 Books to Empower Growth

January 8, 2023

Best Mindset Books: In life, everything worth achieving is demanding, and start with a positive mindset. If you want that millionaire mindset, you have to put in the work. There are too many people in life who have a fixed mindset and don’t understand why they don’t reach their goals in life. The problem is that they don’t have a growth mindset and fail to realize that the mindset is everything, everything starts with the mind. You must have a mindset change if you want to be the best you even if you have to go to a professional mindset coach to point you in the right direction.

But if you’re self-help kind of person, then we’ve compiled a list of the best mindset books that will act as tools to help you take action and turn the obstacles in your life to your advantage. There is a broad range of books ( mindset growth vs fixed, the mindset of abundance or mindset shift) that will show you how to take your mind off of negative thoughts and change your perspective. But most of all, this list of books will help show you that anything is possible and that you have the power to shape your own destiny. We hope that you enjoy our list of the 20 best mindset books.

Best Mindset Books

The Growth Mindset Coach A Teacher's Month-by-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve by Annie Brock

A complete and easy-to-follow guide for inspiring every student with the power of growth mindset
Created by teachers for teachers, this is the ultimate guide for unleashing students’ potential through creative lessons, empowering messages and innovative teaching. The Growth Mindset Coach provides all you need to foster a growth mindset
classroom, including:
• A Month-by-Month Program
• Research-Based Activities
• Hands-On Lesson Plans
• Real-Life Educator Stories
• Constructive Feedback
• Sample Parent Letters
Studies show that growth mindsets result in higher test scores, improved grades and more in-class involvement. When your students understand that their intelligence is not limited, they succeed like never before. With the tools in this book, you can motivate your students to believe in themselves and achieve anything

Mindset How You Can Fulfill Your Potential by Carol S. Dweck

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional.
Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

#1 New York Times Bestseller
Over 2 million copies sold
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be “positive” all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people
For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. “F**k positivity,” Mark Manson says. “Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it.” In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up
Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—”not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault.” Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich – Over 80 Million Copies Sold
This edition of Napoleon Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich is a reproduction of Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, the ONLY original version recommended by The Napoleon Hill Foundation, originally printed in March of 1937.
The most famous of all teachers of success spent a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort to produce the Law of Success philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized and explained for the general public in this book.
In Think and Grow Rich, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. This book will teach you the secrets that could bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell

Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . .
The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
The Law of Modeling: It’s Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others
This third book in John Maxwell’s Laws series (following the 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets “used up.”

The Innovator's Mindset by George Couros

Kids walk into schools full of wonder and questions. How you, as an educator, respond to students’ natural curiosity can help further their own exploration and shape the way they learn today and in the future. The traditional system of education requires students to hold their questions and compliantly stick to the scheduled curriculum. But our job as educators is to provide new and better opportunities for our students. It’s time to recognize that compliance doesn’t foster innovation, encourage critical thinking, or inspire creativity–and those are the skills our students need to succeed
In The Innovator’s Mindset, George Couros encourages teachers and administrators to empower their learners to wonder, to explore–and to become forward-thinking leaders. If we want innovative students, we need innovative educators. In other words, innovation begins with you. Ultimately, innovation is not about a skill set: it’s about a mindset
The Innovator’s Mindset is for you if:
You are a superintendent, district administrator, or principal who wants to empower your staff to create a culture of innovation
You are a school leader – at any level – and want to help students and educators become their personal best
You are a teacher who wants to create relevant learning experiences and help students develop the skills they need to be successful
You’ll be inspired to:
Connect with other innovative educators
Support teachers and leaders as learners

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone

Your mind has a secret invisible talisman. On one side is emblazoned the letters PMA (positive mental attitude) and on the other the letters NMA (negative mental attitude). A positive attitude will naturally attract the good and the beautiful. The negative attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living. Your success, health, happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind! When motivational pioneer Napoleon Hill and millionaire CEO W.
Clement Stone teamed up to form one of the most remarkable partnerships of all time, the result was Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, the phenomenon that proposed to the world that with the right attitude, anyone can achieve his or her dreams. Now this remarkable book is available for the twenty-first century. You, too, can take advantage of the program that has brought success to generations of people seeking — and finding — a better way to live.

Mindset, Model and Marketing! by Tom Ferry

Real estate is a tricky business. Some agents dominate the market, while others can barely keep their heads above water. There are secrets the top producers possess that every agent needs to know. This invaluable guidebook from #1 New York Times best-selling author Tom Ferry explores the systems and strategies that can transform you and your team into real estate rock stars.
In Mindset, Model and Marketing you’ll learn how to:
Take the massive action necessary to become the dominant agent in your marketplace
Win listings by presenting and closing with confidence
Profit from your database and geographic farm
Implement one of four team models to scale your business
Take control of your time to work smarter, not harder
With Tom’s proven business-building techniques, you can become a force to be reckoned with in the real estate industry and secure the future you’ve always wanted.

Hack the Entrepreneur How to Stop Procrastinating

In Hack the Entrepreneur: how to stop procrastinating, build a business, and do work that matters, Jonny Nastor will be your personal mastermind, coach, and mentor as he gives you the guidance and kick in the ass you need today. You Should Read This Book… If you are stuck and don’t know what to do next… If you want to control your destiny… If you want to design a lifestyle that puts you in control of your time and income, this book is for you… If you want to do work that matters… If you want to work on projects that make a real impact and have meaning to you and others, this book will let you discover your true value…
If you want the freedom to travel… If the idea of working on your business while traveling the world makes you smile, digital entrepreneurship and Hack the Entrepreneur is for you.

Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

Leaders are the ones who run headfirst into the unknown They rush toward the danger They put their own interests aside to protect us or to pull us into the future Leaders would sooner sacrifice what is their to save what is ours And they would never sacrifice what is ours to save what is theirs This is what it means to be a leader It means they choose to go first into danger headfirst toward the unknown And when we feel sure they will keep us safe we will march behind them and work tirelessly to seen their visions come to life and proudly call ourselves their followers Book jacket The New York Times bestselling follow up to Simon Sinek s global hit Start With Why Why do only a few people get to say I love my job It seems unfair that finding fulfillment at work is like winning a lottery that only a few lucky ones get to feel valued by their organizations to feel like they belong Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work feels trusted and valued during the day then returns home feeling fulfilled.

Everything Is F*cked A Book About Hope by Mark Manson

From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope.
We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter.
At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness
What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t—and worst of all, that our modern and maddening urge to always find happiness only served to make us unhappier. Instead, the “subtle art” of that title turned out to be a bold challenge: to choose your struggle; to narrow and focus and find the pain you want to sustain.

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life by Jim Kwik

This eBook is designed to guide you from a place of limits and negativity to a place of mass abundance and positivity. This book holds hidden knowledge that can transform your current thought patterns and bring you to a place where all your desires manifest. If you apply the thoughts and affirmations throughout this book, you will be able to create a massively positive change within your life. For free meditations, come to my website: http://www.MichaelAustinJacobs.com These thoughts have helped me expand my awareness and, in doing so, have helped me change the focus and direction of my life.
Many individuals in today’s society have convinced themselves that they cannot find happiness or they do not have the ability to live in abundance. Whether out of fear or pure ignorance (probably a mix of both), these people choose to live in misery and have accepted the “victim” mentality. This book was created to help guide individuals out of these states of fear and into a state of love and happiness. When one connects with the present moment, they connect with this abundance and joy. The tips and affirmations throughout this book are based off spiritual principles meant to help you live in the present moment.

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

For half a century, Norman Vincent Peale was one of the most influential clergymen in the United States. Brilliantly combining the wisdom of Christianity with a deep understanding of human psychology, Peale delivered a message about the power of faith that resonated with people of all denominations. The most famous of his forty-six books, The Power of Positive Thinking, has remained in print for fifty years, sold fifteen million copies, and been translated into forty languages.
Peale’s legacy continues today through the work of the Peale Center for Christian Living, the Outreach Division of Guideposts, which is still run by members of his family, and the magazine Guideposts, which has a circulation of more than 3.2 million.

The Outward Mindset Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute

Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. When faced with personal ineffectiveness or lagging organizational performance, most of us instinctively look for quick-fix behavioral band-aids, not recognizing the underlying mindset at the heart of our most persistent challenges. Through true stories and simple yet profound guidance and tools, The Outward Mindset enables individuals and organizations to make the one change that most dramatically improves performance, sparks collaboration, and accelerates innovation—a shift to an outward mindset.

The Successful Author Mindset by Joanna Penn

Being a writer is not just about typing It’s also about surviving the roller-coaster of the creative journey. Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for validation, perfectionism, writer’s block, comparisons, overwhelm, and much more. When you’re going through these things, it can feel like you’re alone. But actually, they are part of the creative process, and every author goes through them too This book collects the mindset issues that writers experience, that I have been through myself over the last nine years, and that perhaps you will experience at different times on the creative journey Each small chapter tackles a possible issue and then offers an antidote, so that you can dip in and out over time. It includes excerpts from my own personal journals as well as quotes from well-known writers. I hope it helps you on the road to becoming a successful author

A Beautiful Constraint by Adam Morgan, Mark Barden

An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunities A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages And Why It’s Everyone’s Business Now is a book about everyday, practical inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which we live. It describes how to take the kinds of issues that all of us face today—lack of time, money, resources, attention, know-how—and see in them the opportunity for transformation of oneself and one’s organization’s fortunes.
The ideas in the book are based on the authors’ extensive work as business consultants and are brought to life in 35 personal interviews from such varied sources as Nike, IKEA, Unilever, the U.S. Navy, Formula One racecar engineers, public school teachers in California, and barley farmers in South Africa. Underpinned by scientific research into the psychology of breakthroughs, the book is a practical handbook full of tools and tips for how to make more from less. Beautifully designed and accessible, A Beautiful Constraint will appeal beyond its core business audience to anyone who needs to find the opportunity in constraint
The book takes the reader on a journey through the mindset, method, and motivation required to move from the initial “victim” stage into the transformation stage.

Million Dollar Coach by Taki Moore

Million Dollar Coach is the must-have resource for coaches. Increase the income you earn, work when and how you want, watch your clients get incredible results…… and become empowered to live a life of massive personal freedom. Million Dollar Coach is designed to shift these issues you may be experiencing such as: • Too many coaches hit an income ceiling, and never make the kind of money (or the kind of impact) that they are capable of.
They get stuck at one of the 3 plateaus: Survival, Stability or even Success • Most coaches blame themselves, and try to work on their MINDSET — But nothing changes because it’s not your mindset that’s the problem. It’s the MODEL that needs to change. • The model that you bought into when you started your coaching business is completely unscalable (Manual prospecting to get a few leads, followed by one-to-one selling and dealing with objections, excuses and stalls… and time-for-money coaching so there’s never any time for you). • For the last 5 years, the author has been working with a select group of coaches, taking them from Stability to Success and Scale. Taki Moore has a very new approach and he shares the very best of what is working for them to become a Million Dollar Coach. This book is essential reading for coaches of all types and experience-levels and is of particular value for anyone looking to start a coaching business to short cut growing pains and quickly rise to become a Million Dollar Coach.

The Minimalist Mindset The Practical Path to Making Your Passions a Priority and to Retaking Your Freedom by Danny Dover

What Would You Focus On If You Were No Longer Weighed Down By Your Unwanted Responsibilities?
If you want to add something meaningful to your life, like traveling to exotic places, composing beautiful music, or experiencing a new friendship in a foreign language, you will need to figure out how to eliminate other things from your daily routine. Your time and money are not infinite so if you want to add something important to your life, there is no way to avoid removing something else
Unfortunately, these types of eliminations are very difficult to implement as they require removing something from your life that is already there for a specific reason. To make room for your passions are you going to sleep less? Are you going to spend less time with your family? Are you going to expend less energy at work? These are hard and often unrealistic trade-offs to make
The Minimalist Mindset is not a book about tidying up (that book has already been written) and it is not a book about the philosophical exploration of minimalism (that book already exists too). Instead, The Minimalist Mindset is a book about a down and dirty process you can use to make deliberate decisions about how to prioritize how you live your life. This book walks you through the habits you can implement to consistently make realistic and sustainable trade-offs so that you can prioritize your passions and retake your freedom
Best-selling author Danny Dover shows you a reproducible process he used to go from a boring life in a cramped apartment in Seattle, Washington, to a fulfilling multi-year adventure that included visiting nearly 100 countries, learning to play music, studying a new language, and the eventual completion of his more than 150-item Life List

Mindset Switch Identify Your Triggers, Transform Your Limiting Beliefs, and Take Charge of What You Want by Tonya Rineer

Mindset Switch is the solution for anyone who wants more than average success, yet finds themselves stuck in a loop of negative self-talk, limiting beliefs, and self-doubt. This book does what no other book on mindset does. It highlights the holistic interplay between how thoughts and feelings become ingrained in us as disempowering beliefs, and how that cycle repeats itself, sabotaging us over and over again.

Citing existing mindset research, along with the Laws of Attraction and Vibration and introducing her own tried and true system for identifying triggers, Tonya’s book is for those who are new to mindset and personal development work as well as those who are already familiar with the basic concepts and are looking to advance their practice.
This book will help you ditch your limiting beliefs so you can, take control of what you want and create a life that, before now, you could barely imagine was possible.
Key takeaways for the reader: The what and the why about how mindset works, and instructions on how to make the changes necessary to flip the switch on your own mindset
The tools to identify when and why you get stuck in a negative feedback loop and how to reroute yourself
Practical tools and exercises to help you SHIFT your thinking from “I can’t. . .” to “I can. . .”

Wire Your Brain for Confidence The Science of Conquering Self-Doubt by Louisa Jewell

Do you ever wonder why you are confident in some areas of your life and yet in other areas,you have so much fear and self-doubt
The good news is scientists have discovered the formula on how you can wire your brain for a more action-oriented kind of confidence that boosts your courage to act, even when you’re feeling afraid. In this approachable and game-changing guide to building your situation-specific confidence, positive psychology expert Louisa Jewell shows that adopting a resilient mindset will enable you to show up as your best self at home and in the workplace.
Jewell has deep knowledge of the science of the good life, honed through years of study and practice, and here she presents only the most effective and proven techniques for increasing your grit and confidence. Through stories,reflection questions, and exercises, she will guide you from fear to courage,and give you the ability to accomplish the goals that seemed impossible. Wire Your Brain for Confidence will put you on the fast track to flourishing in every area of your life.