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Some self-help books comfort the reader. Others challenge you to confront uncomfortable truths about behaviour, ...

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Momentum matters when attention is fragile, and short books often hit hardest. This selection focuses on tightly written stories and ideas that refuse to sprawl, carrying urgency, emotional punch and ...

Gone are the days when self-help books were practically required to be cheesy, impersonal, and boring. Now, if you know where to look, you'll find empowering, genuinely useful self-help books designed ...

The term “self-help books” doesn’t always inspire confidence. Some people look down on this genre as being poorly written or promising too much. In the sea of self-help titles, it can be easy to pick ...

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Nearly half (47%) of Americans think they could write a self-help book based on their life experiences, new research suggests. A recent survey of 2,000 US adults discovered that youth and wisdom are ...

Are self-help books a waste of money? I’ve written two books which are designed as self-help guides so it won’t be a surprise if I say that I think self-help books can actually be very helpful to ...

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