12 Books To Reframe Your Thinking
We’ve curated a list of 12 books, one for each month of the year, to help shift your thinking and help you get out of your own way so you can be your most creative yet.
Check out our reading recommendations below and remember, when you buy one or more of these titles as a physical book from the Good Creator bookshop on Bookshop, or as a digital book from Kindle Unlimited, or as an audiobook from Audible, you're helping to provide more affordable and accessible professional development opportunities for artists and creatives.
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Our Picks
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I Didn't Do The Thing Today: On letting go of productivity guilt by Madeline Dore
If you've ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this is the permission slip you need to find your own way.
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a focused life in a noisy world by Cal Newport
A practical guide to cutting back on screen time and rethinking your relationship with social media.
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You Are A Global Citizen: A guided journal for the culturally curious by Damon Dominique
Explore your own identity within a global society to understand how the outside world impacts on what’s going on in your mind and vice versa.
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Manifesto: On never giving up by Bernadine Evaristo
Personal and practical insights on why developing self-belief is so important and how struggle and disappointment can be good for a creative artist as long as you don’t give up.
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Work From Home Hacks by Aja Frost
500 + easy ways to get organised, stay productive and maintain a work-life balance while working from home.
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The Expectation Effect: How your mindset can transform your life by David Robson
Suggests our expectations shape our experience, uncovering techniques to improve fitness, productivity, intelligence, health and happiness.
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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work By Seth Godin
A book about the importance of consistency to getting unstuck and finding the courage to make and share creative work.
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
A gentle exploration of fallow seasons, and how to embrace uncertainty in order to survive them.
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Together: A Manifesto Against The Heartless World by Ece Temelkuran
Provides an inspiring manifesto for change and reveals fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in.
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Sabotage: How to silence your inner critic and get out of your own way by Emma Gannon
Explores real-life stories of success and setbacks from leading cultural voices and offers ways to challenge self-sabotage.
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Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood
A collection of essays from on everything from debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young, to how to define granola.
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The WayOf Integrity: Finding the path to your true self by Martha Beck
A four-stage process of how to read your internal signals to help you recognize what you actually yearn for and lead you towards your true path.
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