Ask HN: which are some good self-help books?

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - http://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/1400...

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671...

How to Win Friends & Influence People - http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a life changing book. If I never read it, I probably would have jumped off a bridge with all the stress of product launches and public failures that are inevitable as an entrepreneur.
I am currently reading The Power of Habit. Great book indeed.
+1 for The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Seven Habits... outdated advice
What would you say has superceded it?
The best one ever -> Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne

The Power of TED (The Empowerment Dynamic) by David Emerald

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie

Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior by Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns

Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if you Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith

The New Manual 2.0 by Tripp Lanier thenewmanual.com

10 Key Principles that are common to over 100 of the most famous Personal Development books... Brian Johnson discovered these Concepts for Optimal Living and wrote a book about it:

A Philosopher's Notes: On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness, Vol. 1

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Notes-Creating-Authentica...

This is the best Personal Development Book I ever read.