Graduates need genuine guidance when it comes to their career.
What career is right for you? If you have graduated or are about to graduate, your family and friends will probably be asking you about your post-graduation plans.
Listening to the advice of career coaches and gurus by reading books can be extremely helpful. However, reading books require concentration and focus. You might find it much easier to listen to an audiobook. Audiobooks allow you to multitask – i.e, you could listen to an audiobook whilst washing the dishes.
There are thousands of audiobooks on the market today. Many of them are useful for inspiring and helping graduates to make a success of their lives after graduation.
If you are a graduate looking for inspiration we recommend taking a look at this list of 100 of the best audiobooks to listen to in your lifetime. We have also hand-selected a few audiobooks that you might find useful.
1. Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (2017)
Manoush Zomorodi wrote Bored and Brilliant to help youngsters rewind their lives. Her idea was to jumpstart graduates’ creativity through minimal usage of gadgets. The book discusses an interconnectedness between boredom and critical thinking. It also explores how to harness the hidden benefits of boredom to become productive as a creative person. However, as graduates, you won’t have to completely discard gadgets to achieve the goal.
The audiobook suggests how in every spare moment, we don’t take any breaks. Not even the brakes that we deserve. Rather we have a habit of using the spare moment to do something on our smartphones or laptops or tablets.
It doesn’t matter if you’re refreshing your Twitter News Feed or WhatsApp chat. For the past 10 years, we’ve always been online, all the time, every time. It might look productive to some as they like to stay well-informed. Nevertheless, your brain, you deserve to be a little bored as this would lead you to be brilliant.
Pros: The introduces mind wandering, cognitive and neuroscience psychology.
2. Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World (2018)
The meaning of networking has changed significantly over the years. With digitalization, networking isn’t about cocktail parties where you’d hand out business cards. Dawn of digitalization introduced unconventional modern-day roadmaps to build connectedness. This connectedness further aims at achieving both short-term and long-term goals. The author inspires young minds by providing them with insightful tools.
J. Kelly Hoey brings a new approach to a necessary old topic. Networking is extremely important today if you’re working with someone or you own a brand. Even if you bring a little bit of change to your daily routine, you can land big opportunities.
Pros: Students can learn ways to leverage professional relationships from the authors. Learn the art to build everlasting connections with this audiobook.
3. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change (2012)
Charles Duhigg, a renowned journalist of The NY Times uses anecdotes and science to curate The Power of Habit. The author points out how subtle change in habits can make an individual healthier, happier, and successful. The author will take you to the epitome of groundbreaking scientific discoveries. These discoveries explain the entirety of habits and why they even exist. In The Power of Habit, he also outlines ways by which habits can be changed. The audiobook provides penetrating intelligence equipped with mind bobbling narrative. The author gives birth to a completely unheard understanding of the transformation of human beings and their nature.
Habits after some time become patterns and human beings like patterns. The book highlights that more than 40% of our total behaviours are done by habits. This further suggests that around 40% of the work done is done on autopilot. This is a must-listen audiobook for graduates who are finding it tough to break their habits.
Pros: Learn how to transform your business by subtly harnessing new science.
4. Love for Imperfect Things: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection (2019)
The audiobook version of Love for Imperfect Things is written by Haemin Sunim. The audiobook showcases the pathway to attain happiness alongside peace of mind. Young listeners will not only understand how to pursue happiness, but rather build sustainable relationships with people. Attaining happiness is all about letting the worries leave with an ethereal self.
The audiobook comprises chapters like relationships, self-compassion, family, courage, empathy, acceptance, your own reality among others. Haemin Sunim is a reputed Korean monk who changed the perspective of people across the world. Sumin through this audiobook teaches ways to embrace inhibitions.
Pros: The book imparts practical wisdom and its accessibility is brilliant.
5. Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps (2013)
This is the perfect audiobook for recent graduates. The book is written by Kelly Williams Brown who talks about the daily struggles of new professionals. Everybody has felt a few instances in life where they continue feeling like students.
After acquiring a degree, you tend to wear suits for interviews. However, pyjamas are your go-to attire for visiting grocery stores. These instances are very much normal, it’s nothing to feel ashamed. Nevertheless, you can change these instances.
The book highlights how confusing, hard, and scary adulting is for some. All you need to do is plug your earphones and navigate the depths of Adulthood.
Pros: This book is the answer to all aspiring grown-ups. Especially the grown-ups who are still growing up.
6. The Road to Character (2015)
In The Road to Character, David Brooks focuses on deeper values about lives. The book focuses on unifying résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues as per David Brooks are fame, wealth, and status whereas eulogy virtues are bravery, kindness, faithfulness and honesty.
The audiobook will take listeners to the journey of exploring themselves. Brooks suggests internal struggle and knowing your inhibition builds a strong character. The audiobook blends politics, psychology, confessions, spirituality among others. The audiobook will give an opportunity to the readers to rethink their stance and priorities in life.
Verdict:
Almost all self-help audiobooks can motivate you. However, if you need the right inspiration to live up to your potential, listening to books to explore yourself is very important as a graduate. There are hundreds of thousands of books which can inspire you. Nevertheless, we found the audiobooks available on 10audioz will provide you with the vantage point to straighten up your life.
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