"If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That’s not self-help… that’s help. There’s no such thing as self-help. If you did it yourself you didn’t need help. Try to pay attention to the language we’ve all agreed on. "
-George Carlin
yes, you do it yoursef, but you always need some external inputs and inspiration before you try something new. and where you get that inspiration and what you try matters a lot.
I mean you need to know what your problem is before you cna get help for it. Sometimes finding the problem is harder than finding the solution tho.
Brilliant idea – I’m gonna write a book the helps people figure out which self-help book they need!
EDIT: I’m still working on the title, but right now I’m leaning toward “Self-Help Yourself to Self-Help”
The Power of The Power
Is there a Power of I Don’t Know or a Power of Can You Repeat the Question?
I guess capitalism does offer choice?
/s
On lemmy the answer to everything is “capitalism bad”.
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Atomic Habits: How to use habits to build your own identity for the life you want.
12 Rules for Life: Follow these specific habits to take on the author’s identity for the life he thinks you must have.
Atomic Habits is pretty dope and makes a lot of sense
There’s one in the middle you can’t see that says “Moderation In All Things”
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I get the joke, and certainly not all self-help books are good, but also people are unique and at different places in their lives. With just a little introspection one can probably tell which book would be better for them. Maybe they say yes too much and would benefit from learning how and when to say no; or they say no to everything and would benefit from learning to embrace new experiences.
Or, you know, pick one up and thumb through a few pages.
I love Christmas and Halloween, but International Naked in the Library Day is my favourite.
Hmm I should make a book titled “everything in moderation”. It’ll be 500 pages long, and take every single self improvement be-all-end-all solution to whatever problem, and tell you “no, there is no single solution that magically solves every complex issues”. Nothing fancier, just that, over and over, for hundreds of pages.
A book called 'Everything in Moderation being 500 pages is ironically hilarious.
You should do in first chapter a summary of the yes book and the no book, and give the reader a way to keep the tally.
2md chapter same thing with next topic, and so on.
Readers will be 2x as powerful per chapter compared to any single book.
Information is not truth.
The point of a teacher is to challenge the student. We become wiser by putting knowledge to the test, not by merely ingesting information. There is as much misinformation as there is true information, if not more. That is why learning is only complete once the misinformation is separated from the true information. And the only way to do that is to experience the information in the context of the real world.
This is just as true for machine learning/AI BTW.
Interestingly, each and every title portrayed here is, individually a lie, and collectively probably more accurate. Because the truth is usually much more nuanced and complicated than can be distilled into a short book title. But you won’t get that by reading a single book or author. And while reading multiple authors is closer to getting to the truth, the real truth is found when you put the books in context with your own experiences and reality.
That’s not an excuse for climate denial though. A teacher will rightfully tell you your world view is too small to experience climate change.
“If Books Could Kill” vibes.
“How to Cope with Having a Flat Butt”
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And turn on the bell!
Well… help yourself.
