giving self help books a bad name
So I picked up a few books which fall into the category ’self help’, lent to me over the last several months. You know, now that I think of it I haven’t read a book that I’ve gotten a lot out of that fits solely in the ’self help’ category. As I wrote this title I had in mind many of the books in which I have found a lot of useful perspective, but now that I think more about it, pretty much all of those would be categorized primarily under another label, such as metaphysics, psychology, spirituality.
So what’s the difference? It seems the difference is that with books that are most helpful and interesting, the information was presented either objectively, as in data presented and perspectives of said data explored, OR the information was clearly qualified with the author’s statement: here are some of my experiences.
What about examples of ’self help’ books (of the first type)? Well, not …
