How To Navigate Self-Help Books

Self-help to its core is an addiction that is only spurred on by the vast multitude of books the industry churns out. For decades, thousands of books have been published every year under this genre with the promise that their pages hold the secret to fixing bad relationships, securing the financial wealth you deserve, and giving you a detailed action plan on getting the body you’ve always dreamed of having.

The strategies range from the mental aspect to the go-getter attitudes of getting stuff done and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps that create an endless cycle. An endless cycle where we hop between book to book, thinking that the next one will say the right thing.

Not to discount every book in the industry, as some do have some amazing tokens of wisdom, but there’s a reason I’ve long abandoned this strategy.

Part of it has to do with the fact I can’t afford to buy and read new books at a steady pace.

But the other is that even if I didn’t have to worry about money, there would be little I can glean from them after a certain point.

It’s not so much that the topic isn’t completely exhausted, but rather that I would have to finally take steps towards fixing…