100+ Awesome Free Self-Improvement Resources

ONLINE CLASSES AND COURSES [10]

• Coursera: Free open online massive classes from top universities & organizations.
• edX.org: Take great online courses from the world’s best universities for free.
• Allversity: Free digital courses in variety of subjects.
• Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• Open2Study: Free high quality online education.
• Skillshare: Unlock your creativity with free online classes & projects.
• MIT OpenCourse: Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
• YouTube.com/Education: Tons of educational material stored on YouTube.
• FutureLearn: Enjoy free online courses from top universities and specialist organisations.
• MOOC-List.com: A search engine for online courses.

CONFERENCES [8]

• TED.com: Nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
• Google Talks: Authors, musicians, innovators, and speakers talk about their fascinating art and ideas.
• Solve for x: Community of people who believe that science and technology can cause radically positive things to happen in the world.
• the DO Lectures: Inspirational talks from passionate, creative people.
• FORA.tv: Videos from some of the world’s best conferences and events.
• 99% U: Videos from creative professionals on skill development, boosting your creativity, innovation and much more.
• RSA Animate: Incredibly engaging animated videos that visually present the ideas of important thinkers, artists and writers.
• Capture Your Flag: Interviews with young ambitious professionals and emerging leaders on how they developed meaningful careers.

LEARN NEW LANGUAGES [3]

• Duolingo: App which really makes studying new languages fun.
• Anki: Free, cross-platform app (Windows, OS X, Linux/BSD, iOS, Android), that helps you memorizing by displaing you a word, phrase, image, or even playing a sound.
• BBC Languages: BBC’s resources for learning 40 new lengagues.

LEARN HOW TO CODE [4]

• Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.
• TalentBuddy: Learn professional JavaScript web development.
• reSRC.io: All free programming learning resources.
• Google Android Developers Training: Learn how to create Android apps.

LEARN ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS [4]

• Mixergy: Learn from proven entrepreneurs.
• How to Start a Startup: 20 lectures containing everything you need to know about how to start a startup from some of the world experts.
• Rocketship.fm: Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.
• Launch This Year: Guide to help you launch your online business.

LEARN NEW SKILLS [15]

• Hackdesign: Receive a design lesson in your inbox each week.
• Chesscademy: Free videos and interactive exercises helping you to learn playing chess well.
• PokerStrategy: Free videos, articles and podcasts on how to play poker.
• Investoo: Free training materials on trading.
• Justinguitar.com: Over 850 completely free guitar lessons.
• The Basics of Music Production: Free guide on basics of music production.
• The Basics of Photography: Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production.
• Learn Photography (udemy): A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Photography
• The Basics of Video Editing: Learn everything you need to know to start editing videos yourself.
• Chandoo: Become an Excel expert.
• You Suck At Photoshop: Learning Photoshop in an entertaining way.
• LearnElectronicsOnline: Online resource for learning electronics.
• Mental Math: Increase your mental math ability.
• What you can learn in 10 minutes: Very practical Quora answers to the question about what useful can you learn in 10 minutes.
• How To Pick-up Girls: Simple tips on how to pick-up girls, last longer in bed, what to do on first date etc.

FOCUS [6]

• Deep Focus: Spotify’s famous playlist to focus.
• Self Control: Application for Mac, which is blocking distracting websites.
• Cold Turkey: For Windows: block yourself from distracting websites.
• Noisli: Generate background noise you like, so you can focus.
• Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.
• Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.
• News Feed Eradicator for Facebook: (only available for Chrome) Find yourself spending too much time on Facebook? Eradicate distractions by replacing your entire news feed with an inspiring quote

TIME MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTIVITY [17]

• Evernote: The place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.
• SimpleNote: Note-taker that updates across all your devices automatically; backs up changes and keeps earlier file versions.
• RemamberTheMilk: Manage your tasks and never forget milk (or anything else) again.
• Wunderlist: To-do list, reminders, errrands.
• Todoist: Online task management app and to-do list.
• Doit.im: Cross-platform online Getting-Things-Done service.
• WorkFlowy: Notebook for lists.
• Coach.me: Instant coaching for any goal.
• RescueTime: Helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive.
• Assistant.to: Schedule meetings in seconds all within email.
• Futureme.org: Write a letter to your future self.
• Toggl: Online time tracking tool featuring 1-click time tracking and helps you see where your time goes.
• Boomerang: Bnoozing emails, scheduling email for later, response tracking, and more.
• EmailGa.me: A game, that helps you productively manage your e-mail.
• Stickk: Instead of rewarding yourself for meeting your goals, pay an “anti-charity” money when you cheat on your resolutions.
• Waze: World’s largest community based traffic and navigation app helping you to save time and gas money on your daily commute.
• LogMeIn: Allows remote access to your computer, like you were right there. (Android & iOS).

ORGANIZING & CO-WORKING [14]

• Everhour: Time management tool offering detailed and customizable task insights for data driven teams.
• Voxeet: Simple, free 3D conference calls. Experience the difference.
• Typetalk: Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging.
• Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.
• Slack: a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go.
• FreeBusy: Eliminate coordination headaches when you need to schedule a meeting.
• Cacoo: Creating diagrams and flowcharts online, real time collaboration.
• Witkit: Witkit is the secure platform for teams. 50GB of free encrypted data storage.
• Asana: Teamwork without email.
• Mint.com: Manage your cash flow, budgets and bills from one place.
• Cloze: Pools Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and email in one place and organises by friends and contacts.
• iDoneThis: Place for everything you and your team gets done – to track, discuss and sync up on progress.
• Cozi.com: Simple family organizer.
• Doodle: Simplifies scheduling, makes it easy to find a date for a meeting.

TRAVELING [5]

• TripIt: Organize your travel plans in one place.
• AroundMe: Allows you to search for the nearest restaurants, banks, gas stations, book an hotel or find a movie schedule nearby.
• DogVacay: Basically AirBnb for dogs.
• Feastly: A marketplace connecting cooks and eaters over meals in a cook’s home.
• Startuptravels: Online platform that allows you to meet local entrepreneurs while traveling or welcome foreign entrepreneurs to your city.

MEDITATION [2]

• Breathe2Relax: App for both Andoird and iOS for managing your stress through breathing.
• STOP, BREATHE & THINK: Simple tool to guide people of all ages and backgrounds through meditations for mindfulness.

FITNESS & HEALTH [12]

• f.lux: Blocks blue light on your computer and prevents insomnia.
• Twilight: Blocks blue light on android devices.
• MyFitnessPal: Free calorie counter.
• Endomondo: Free app and website that makes fitness fun and helps you stay motivated.
• Gain Fitness: Personal workout programme-builder with more than 350 exercises, across various methods including strength training, callisthenics and yoga.
• Examine.com: Analyzes scientific research to gauge efficacy and usefulness of supplementation.
• SimplifySupper: Meal planning made simple.
• Foodista: Tones of recipes, cooking tips, food news.
• ExRx.net: Comprehensive liberary of over 1600 exercises.
• Cody: Social platform for progress tracking, sharing and completing workouts, liking & commenting on others activity.
• Bulletproof Podcasts: Over 200 podcasts on biohacking, health, nutrition, nootropics etc.
• Fooducate: App that not only tracks your health, exercise and diet but basically shops for you!

OTHER [2]

• The Psychology Podcast: Not very well known, but awesome and useful podcast featuring great psychology scientists.
• CreativeMornings: Breakfast lecture series for the creative community.

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