The online bookstore patogupirkti.lt has selected the newest and most striking personal development publications that will undoubtedly find a place on your reading list – whether you are looking for peace, inspiration, or specific tools for change.
Mark Nepo “The Book of Awakening”
Sometimes the greatest obstacle on the path to a fulfilling life is not external challenges, but our own indecision and inability to be fully present here and now. Being stuck halfway, when we are neither completely alone with ourselves nor open to another person, opens up the deepest feeling of loneliness.
This work by American poet, philosopher, and cancer survivor Mark Nepo was born from a personal soul journey and decades of accumulated experience in spirituality. The book intertwines poetic language, deep life insights, and practical spiritual exercises for each day, helping to regain inner peace even when the surrounding world seems hostile or unfair.
“The Book of Awakening” is a spiritual diary and at the same time an invitation to fall in love with everyday life anew, discovering extraordinary wisdom in the simplest experiences. This book acts as a gentle guide, helping to reconcile with the present moment and awaken to a brighter, more conscious life.
James Muldoon “Love Machines”
Are you ready to entrust your most sensitive secrets and romantic desires to digital code? This is what millions live by today: artificial intelligence no longer just fulfills work tasks – it hugs, comforts, becomes a friend, or even replaces a romantic partner. In James Muldoon’s book “Love Machines,” he dives straight into the vortex of this new phenomenon and reveals how the so-called “loneliness economy” profits from our fundamental desire to be heard.
Instead of dry theories, here you will hear real stories, behind-the-scenes of programmers, and candid confessions of users. The author reveals what marketing tricks make us attached to algorithms and raises concerns: does digital intimacy truly heal loneliness, or does it only push us further apart? This is a provocative, highly contemporary look at a world where feelings become a digital commodity.
Gary Stevenson “Trading Games. My Confession”
Gary Stevenson, who became the most profitable bank trader, tells an open and shocking story about a system where the greatest profit lies in betting on deepening social poverty and upcoming economic crises.
Dizzying success, sleepless nights, and a trillion dollars flowing daily through the hands of a talented mathematician – at first glance, it seems like a dream come true for a boy from a poor East London neighborhood. But behind the shiny facade of the financial world lies a dark reality where borderline personalities become colleagues, and winning gradually turns into a disturbing loss.
In the book “Trading Games. My Confession,” the author exposes the rules of a game from which it is almost impossible to withdraw without sacrificing your sanity or moral values. This global bestseller raises a fundamental question about where the line dissolves between the desire to break through and the ability to stop when the golden ticket won begins to destroy the person themselves.
Susan David “Emotional Agility: How to Better Understand Your Emotions and Learn to Accept Them”
Why do some people quickly recover after tough life blows, while others get stuck for a long time in their doubts, anger, or fear? The answer lies not in blind positivity or avoiding stress, but in the ability to flexibly accept everything that happens inside. Renowned Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David in the book “Emotional Agility: How to Better Understand Your Emotions and Learn to Accept Them” debunks the myth that happy people simply do not hurt. Having studied human behavior for more than two decades, the author proves that success and peace depend on how we relate to our own thoughts.
There is no need to suppress sadness or pretend everything is fine – emotionally agile people bravely face difficult feelings, listen to them, and… allow them to pass. Based on extensive scientific research and long-term counseling experience, S. David offers a practical method that will help align daily actions with personal values, stop fighting with oneself, and harness true potential even in the most unexpected situations.
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Marta Martínez Novoa “The Good Girl Syndrome. About the Desire to Please Everyone and the Courage to Be Yourself”
The desire to please others, constant adaptation, and fear to say a firm “no” – experiences familiar to many, but women most often face these internal struggles. The expectation instilled from childhood to be “good” and not cause problems often exceeds the limits of healthy kindness and becomes an exhausting behavioral pattern.
Spanish psychologist and psychotherapist Marta Martínez Novoa in her bestselling book “The Good Girl Syndrome. About the Desire to Please Everyone and the Courage to Be Yourself” invites readers to look at the roots of this behavior and understand that relentless caring for others at one’s own expense is not a personal flaw but simply a developed self-preservation mechanism.
Based on long-term therapeutic experience, the author explains the distinction between true selfishness and necessary self-care, helps recognize excessive responsibility, and provides clear guidelines on how to regain confidence in one’s decisions.
Neville Goddard “The Power of Consciousness”
The famous 20th-century metaphysical thinker Neville Goddard in the book “The Power of Consciousness” challenges the usual understanding of cause and effect. He rejects the idea that a person is merely a passive observer of circumstances and proposes that human consciousness itself – imagination, thoughts, and deepest beliefs – is the primary material from which physical reality is woven.
In this spiritual treatise, you become the author. The author urges recognizing the divine creative principle hidden in the human soul and to stop chasing external changes. Instead, he invites an inner revolution: to experience and live the desired state here and now as if it has already become a fact. Full of timeless philosophical wisdom and metaphysical exercises, this book is a profound invitation to take absolute responsibility for your thoughts and realize that the boundaries between what we think and what we experience have never truly existed.
Baek Sehee “I Want to Die, But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki Too”
Between a flawless external life and the darkness boiling inside often lies a silent, exhausting chasm. South Korean author Baek Sehee openly opens the door to her everyday life with dysthymia – a chronic, hidden form of depression that allows smiling at work during the day and falling apart in pieces at night. In this half-memoir, half-self-analysis book, the author compiled twelve weeks of conversations with her psychiatrist, not trying to embellish or portray herself stronger than she truly feels.
The core of the work “I Want to Die, But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki Too” is a strange but very realistic humanism contained in the title itself. Even when complete emptiness and meaninglessness take over, the desire to taste favorite street food – spicy rice cakes – remains alive, reminding that the human soul is complex and contradictory. This is a sensitive, imperfect, and very transparent guide for all who are tired of pretending to have everything under control and are looking for hope in the smallest flashes of everyday life.
Mark Tigchelaar, Oscar de Bos “Attention Management. How to Focus in a Distracting World”
Why do you feel completely exhausted at the end of the day, even though the main tasks remain untouched? It turns out that every notification sound or quick glance at the phone actually lowers our IQ briefly and disrupts brain activity. Dutch psychologist Mark Tigchelaar and training expert Oscar de Bos’s book “Attention Management. How to Focus in a Distracting World” offers a practical lifeline for everyone drowning in emails, endless notifications, and noisy office chaos.
This Dutch bestseller will not lecture boringly about completely giving up technology. Instead, the author turns neuroscience-based discoveries into easily applicable daily habits: from smart workweek planning to true brain-restoring relaxation. It is a playful, very concrete, and invaluable guide for anyone wanting to regain control over their time and thoughts – and finally accomplish what truly matters.
