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For any "self help" book, people split into three groups and they take it as 1. Gospel, 2. Nonsense, 3. Somewhere in the middle.

I think you have to be in the third group for the books to be useful. You have to be able to pick out the truths and the nonsense. But also I think the nonsense is sometimes helpful to point out the truths.

Me and you could read the same book, find it useful but what we took from it was quite different because what we needed was quite different. Even though we fundamentally had the same problem.




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