20 Books That Can Help You Learn New Skills in Just One Month

People learn throughout their entire lives. Sometimes it’s because of how fast technological progress is, and sometimes it’s just because of our own needs. But everyone wants to acquire new skills as quickly as possible.

We at Bright Side have made a list of books that will help you learn something new in only 30 days.

MAKE A DECENT BUSINESS PLAN

Rhonda Abrams Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies With this book, Abrams helps beginner businessmen create a useful business plan instead of just a piece of paper for investors. According to her opinion, a business plan is a roadmap that leads the way to success. So it’s something that should be created wisely. Buy

DETECT LIARS

Lillian Glass The Body Language of Liars The ability to determine whether a person is lying or not would be a great superpower to have. But in fact, anyone can have it. Lillian Glass, a body language expert shares a simple approach which she uses herself to detect lies of any level. It’s good for both “white lies” and lies that can affect your entire life. Buy

Paul Ekman Telling Lies Paul Ekman is an American psychologist known around the world. In his book, he teaches to notice the small details that other people don’t see. They can help you detect both small and big lies. Buy

LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Richard M. Roberts, Roger J. Kreuz Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language The authors of the book are cognitive scientists. They have gathered all their scientific experience to help adults learn a foreign language. Kreuz and Roberts tell how to develop a habit to learn stuff, why you should never cram the material, and how not to become a language zombie who uses only prepared phrases. Buy

WRITE A COOL BOOK

Chris Baty No Plot? No Problem! High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days If you think that it takes a year to write a novel, then this book is for you! Baty organized the National Novel Writing Month which lets thousands of participants to try to write their first book in just one month. This book may help you if you’re interested in writing. Buy

DEVELOP A SUPER MEMORY

Mike Byster, Kristin Loberg The Power of Forgetting: Six Essential Skills to Clear Out Brain Clutter and Become the Sharpest, Smartest You A writer and a mathematician have teamed up to write this book. They made a great guide for people who want to discover their full potential. This book is not only about memory but also about becoming more effective at everything that you do. The authors provide you with a learning strategy and exercises that will help you get used to this way of thinking. Buy

Peter Kump Breakthrough Rapid Reading Who doesn’t want to read their favorite books faster and still be able to memorize all the important information from them? Rapid reading is a good solution. In his book, Kump writes about the theories which are taught at the best rapid-reading courses. He also offers the readers some of his unique methods. Buy

LEARN TO DRAW

Mark Kistler You Can Draw in 30 Days The author promises that if you spend 20 minutes a day during one month, he won’t make you a talented artist, but at least a person who draws quite well. This is because drawing is a skill that is easy to learn and not an innate talent. Buy

Andrew Loomis Successful Drawing The author of this book is a professional artist who spent many years learning different methods of drawing in search of the simplest one among them. In the end, he found it. In this book, Loomis describes the easiest way to learn to draw. Buy

DEVELOP A LOGICAL OR CREATIVE WAY OF THINKING

Barbara Oakley A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science People are not born mathematicians. And Oakley, who has a Ph.D. in Mathematics, proves that every person can change the usual way of thinking and learn to use the skills that scientists use every day. Buy

Michael Michalko Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques Creative thinking is not an innate feature. In his book, Michael Michalko, a leading expert in creativity, has collected and systemized some strategies that help to think creatively. Techniques, exercises, and some very difficult riddles will let you take your first steps to creative thinking. Buy

MANAGE YOUR TIME CORRECTLY

Richard Templar The Rules of Life: A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life Templar promises you’ll discover 100 ways of achieving more with less effort. Do you want to become the type of person who has enough time to do anything and who can stay relaxed all the time? Then you definitely need to read this book. Buy

Laura Vanderkam 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think In her book, Vanderkam tells about ways to not waste your precious time. We have only 24 hours, but just a few of us really use the full potential of this time. Follow the author’s recommendations and you will understand that you actually have much more time and more opportunities than you think. Buy

HAVE GOOD HABITS

Brett Blumenthal 52 Small Changes for the Mind Blumenthal offers instructions that can easily change your whole life. The author is convinced that every big change is caused by small steps that need to be made. And the popular strategy “all or nothing” often leads to failure. This book will help you make those small changes. Buy

Richard Templar The Rules of Work: A definitive code for personal success Templar wrote a book for people who don’t want to take any chances. For them, it’s very important to achieve goals with simple rules. More than that, the author made some basic principles which will let you win other people’s trust and be attractive to others. Buy

CALCULATE BIG NUMBERS IN MIND

Arthur Benjamin The Magic of Math If you want to show everyone how good you are at remembering big numbers and making huge calculations in just seconds, this is the right book for you. The authors will tell how to learn to do this fast and even start to enjoy mathematics. Buy

Bill Handley Speed Mathematics Handley offers his readers a simple method which will help add, subtract, multiply, divide, and find square roots within seconds. The author says that this book is suitable for all sorts of readers around the world. Buy

LEARN TO COOK WELL

Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy This famous British chef collected the simplest recipes of fantastic meals in one book. He is convinced that even a beginner can prepare these meals. This is because Ramsay changed the recipes a little to make them simpler. Buy

Jamie Oliver Jamie’s Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours With this book, Oliver decided to prove that anyone can learn to cook. He collected the most popular recipes and included illustrations to avoid any misunderstanding. The famous chef is absolutely sure that it’s necessary to know only a few techniques and a couple of key recipes to save a lot of money and time. Buy

Which of these books do you think will be the most useful to you? Tell us in the comment section below!

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