Are Self-Help books really helping you?
Those books might do you more harm than good
A Self-help book is a double-edged sword. It can either help you change yourself entirely into someone that you can be proud of, or it can just make you feel worse about yourself.
I used to be a huge advocate for self-help books, there are indeed tons of valuable ‘golden nuggets’ that you can gain from reading those books. I myself had learned a lot from self-help books, and if not for the discovery of them, I would probably be the loser that always stays at home, playing games the whole day, not improving myself, not creating things, but only consuming things, rant about how I am wasting my life away and then doing nothing to change that.
I first stepped into the world of self-help books after reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie(A great book by the way, highly recommended). After finishing that book, I was astonished, I can’t imagine how I have lived my 19 years of life not knowing anything. That was when I realized how valuable self-help book was, and I began researching and buy a ton of self-help books to improve all aspects of my life, for example, how to not worry, how to be productive, how to be rich, how to build habits, how to be badass, how to be practice stoicism, yeah, you get the idea.
