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Dancing with Your Muse: Inner Magic to Release Fear and Embrace Creativity

Have you ever had a dream, but let it go because you were too afraid of failure to try? Dancing with Your Muse is a heartfelt, motivational guide to understanding this fear, realising that you are not alone in it, and working past it to achieve your goals without inhibition.

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Gilda Joffe
2025
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Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts

Prescriptive and unique, Emotional First Aid is essential reading for anyone looking to become more resilient, build self-esteem, and let go of the hurts and hang-ups that are holding them back. We all sustain emotional wounds.

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Guy Winch
2014
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Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. But despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed, and spiraled into a period of deep self doubt.

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Jia Jiang
2016
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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.

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Mark Manson
2025
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Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life

Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes.

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Reshma Saujani
2020
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Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams: The 15 Power Secrets of the World’s Most Successful People

Whether your dreams are to start a business, lose twenty pounds, or build better relationships, they are all within your grasp.

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Steven Scott
1999
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How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture.

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Guy Raz
2025
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Enough as She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

From the New York Times bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, a deeply urgent book that gives adults the tools to help girls in high school and college reject “supergirl” pressure, overcome a toxic stress culture, and become resilient adults with healthy, happy, and fulfilling lives.

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Rachel Simmons
2019
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