How to Read Self-Help
How to Read Self-Help
Section titled “How to Read Self-Help”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: tjcx.me
- Full Title: How to Read Self-Help
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- URL: https://tjcx.me/posts/defense-self-help/
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Section titled “Highlights”- A large part of the self-help’s bad reputation is due to the fact that lots of people read self-help, but those same people seem to keep reading self-help.
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- We’re embarrassed by self-help because (at its best) it’s full of banal platitudes—but these are platitudes because they’re so general.
- A good rule of thumb is that arcane wisdom is rarely right. By I mean anything that is not immediately obvious