Everything about Personal development

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Personal developmentA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicineInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Richest Man in BabylonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐IICited 10,872 times
5. Go sideways: CareerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Humanistic psychologyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II

  JOHN B SAUNDERS, OLAF G. AASLAND, THOMAS F. BABOR · 1993 · Addiction · 10,872 citations

• Personal growth and personal development: Concepts clarified

  J. A. Irving, D. I. Williams · 1999 · British Journal of Guidance & Counselling · 33 citations

• Personal development plans – Practical pitfalls

  Santosh Patel, Gareth Kitchen, Janet Barrie · 2013 · Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care · 6 citations

• Personal Development Plans:

  Jean F. Floodgate, A.E. Nixon · 1994 · Journal of European Industrial Training · 5 citations

• Revisiting Personal Maturity Development

  Donetsk National University, N. P. Andryushkova · 2022 · The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Psychology · 5 citations

• Education and personal development

  Sandy Jackson, Pierre Tap · 1998 · European Journal of Psychology of Education · 3 citations

• Stable Strategies for Personal Development

  Ian Stoner · 2020 · Metaphilosophy · 3 citations

• Personal development

  David Taylor · 1997 · Medical Education · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine

  Donald E. Ingber · 2022 · Nature Reviews Genetics · 1,630 citations

• Middle childhood development in personal values

  Ella Daniel, Kinneret Misgav, Anat Chomsky · 2023 · Journal of Personality · 9 citations

• Personal development of marathon tourists: Scale development and validation

  Bin Zhou, Luting Wang, Songshan (Sam) Huang · 2024 · Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management · 8 citations

• DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL RESILIENCE IN UNCERTAINTY SITUATIONS

  O.A. Chykhantsova · 2023 · Scientific notes of Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, series Psychology · 7 citations

• Teachers’ personal epistemologies and professional development

  Per-Olof Erixon, Kristina Hansson · 2022 · Journal of Further and Higher Education · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Richest Man in BabylonGeorge S. Clason · 1926
• The Power of Your Subconscious MindJoseph Murphy · 1963
• The magic of believingClaude M. Bristol · 1948
• The world of psychologySamuel E. Wood, Ellen Green Wood · 1992
• The origin of intelligence in the childJean Piaget · 1952
• The Magic of Thinking BigDavid Joseph Schwartz · 1900
• The PersonDan P. McAdams · 1990
• 嫌われる勇気Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga · 2013

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