For years, I’ve avoided self-help books like the plague. My mindset was “What makes you think you know better any more than I do?” or “What makes you think your advice is worthy of a whole book?” etc.
Maybe it’s because I turned 31 last Friday and the last few years have been a roller coaster in my personal life…but I’m starting to wonder if it’s time to give self-help books a chance. Truth is, I don’t know where to start. I’m in between jobs, I’ve lived at home since 2020, my love life is nonexistent, and so is my social life–in short, I have a lot of things I want to work on.
My first thought was to turn to this Reddit. For people who reads self-help books, which books are a good place to start? Do you have any recommendations for people in my position? Do you think you get anything out of them? I’m open to any and all discussions or recommendations.
by Bookish_Butterfly
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I’m thinking about writing a self-help book targeting self-help authors. Hoping to self-help myself to some 💰
There are some great books out there in this field. The one’s I suggest are as follows:
‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
‘The Power of Positive Thinking’
‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’
‘Atomic Habits’
I’ve read a ton more, but that is my top four.
You might get something out of ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’. Good Luck and happy reading!
I remember really liking [So Good They Can’t Ignore You](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b83618c3-abf0-43e5-91dd-89b213f634a1) by Cal Newport, and my mom found [How to Keep House While Drowning](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e7cfc0bb-e6c3-44cf-a0f5-9d9dab180535) extremely cathartic
I think self-help books are good for people who are willing to be open to the interpretation of the author.
There are plenty of self help books on the market and to be honest most of them are outdated I’m reading one right now called how to analyze people on sight from the 1920’s
Although I love the book and I will continue to read it over in a rotation it is outdated in a lot of the new “gurus” take outdated material and try to put a new twist on it, there is nothing new we know that most of the self-help gurus “sort of say” will put a new twist on old things.
How Open a person is to digesting the old as presented as new?
In other words I can dress up a Ford car 🚙 to look like a Lamborghini in the old days there used to be something called a Fiero and you could get a Lamborghini kit that would fit on top of a Fierro body but it was just a Fiero it was not a Lamborghini.
The point of my message is if you are willing to take in these affirmative positions that these gurus present for 25.99 a book 📚 & Think that it’s not because of their natural talent for selling things as the age old snake oil salesman, And rely on other people to tell you the type of person that you need to be to get wealth,girls,fame,ect….then by all means it is a lucrative adventure for both you and the author
It depends on the help needed and the book. If it actually helps then great.