Either because it’s written so well that the words reaches deep inside your heart.
Or because the author has some really sound insights/logic in his persuasion, other than typical self-help books where a concept like “just do it” is stretched and repeated throughout the book just to add pages.
Only one book that really touched me was “The Richest Man in Babylon”. I don’t know how applicable it’s financial advices are in the modern times but the words of the chapter on Hard work touched me like nothing else.
The majority of my reading years, I’ve spent on best selling self-help books, searching for the solution or maybe just to understand myself and the reason behind human mediocrity. Most of them were underwhelming and some were straight up annoying.
So I’m trying to get into fictions or philosophicals now. Something that’d use emotional elements such a way that’d likely cause a permanent paradigm shift in me. Which can be relatable even if you’re in a concentration camp and helps build resilience.
It can also be non-fiction, but preferably something from actual experts of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience etc who know what they’re talking about and have specific mechanisms they spent their years on to explain the phenomenon of mediocrity and thriving.
The lesser known in the typical self-help community the better.
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Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday was a good one for me. Heavy on real philosophers (stoicism) with insight from his own life.