How much should be read self-help books? For me, it seems that the authors are simply trying to make a fortune by exploiting the misery of their readers. About 90% of the self help book industry is a lot of shit, and the remaining 10% is not exactly helpful either. A good indicator of the value of a self-help book is the emphasis is on action. Unless stressed the action is pretty useless.
Deal with your demons is good. You can learn breathing techniques and go through exercises in which you face your fears and maybe then tossed with mental images. That’s pretty Run of the Mill in self-help books. But while the solutions are read only, provided that the solutions remain on the page, then they have little relevance to real life.
How many times you must wonder, has a self-help book really helped someone? In fact, the improvement of character and situation in life? What usually gets is feeling good therapy, a kind of amnesia of their own suffering. Do you really know someone who has experienced a long-term change in his being, his temperament or vision of the world through self-help books?
One example is the popular best-seller by Rick Warren “The Purpose Driven Life.” The title says it all! In life, you need a purpose to take you. But no, we are asked to read through 200 pages of nonsense, basically, change the title, and Rick Warren is all the richer for it.
In addition to Mr. Warren, we help others, basically, free recycle their only idea of making money, and these in turn in “consequences”. The proper title of these sequels, however, must be “free to continue paying the mortgage of the author.” consequences are, for lack of a better word, cheating.
I help all on paper, theoretical. The authors are at their desks, in the role of “experts” who pretend to be all concerned about their welfare. That may well be concerned, but they are just going through the motions in a relaxed state, in preparing the drink that supposedly would make sense of their lives, and give meaning to their suffering.
Ultimately, the help that one assumes that derives from the books comes from their attitudes toward career and family. A book means nothing without a corresponding change in the worldview of the reader.
In conclusion, I suggest you stop reading this and go out and learn things the old way of experience.
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