Self Help Books - Do they really work?

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Are you people are big fans of Self help books? Do you think that they can really help and have their contribution to your life? Share your views and experience.

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I actually hate self help books. Never go near them.

Once someone recommended a book called "Feel the Fear and do it anyway". It was just lying on my shelf for ages. I kept looking at it but just could not read it. I found out I actually had a fear of reading the book itself LOL.

In fact its still lying on my shelf...I better return it I guess.

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I just hate them.

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i think whatever u wana learn is available on youtube....i have learnt alot from there

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Youtube, Alim online and Dr. Phil.. you guys are all set, no need to reed any book shook ..

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What exactly do you mean by self help book?

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TLK bhai, I wish it was that simple. :)

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There are some good self-help books and from my experience they do help but, i would suggest you to get engaged in the life. They should not be a way to escape..

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You forgot redvelvet :hehe:

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self-help books and self-help seminars are truely an oxymoron.

related discussions:

here: http://www.paklinks.com/gs/culture-literature-linguistics/311322-self-help-motivational-reading-pma.html

and here: http://www.paklinks.com/gs/all-views/271799-stephen-r-covey-how-much-will-u-pay.html

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if teh book is good and you have a real will to make a positive change but need guidance and direction and the book provides it, and you make a real effort to apply it, then yes.

I can speak from personal experience that when I hit a low point during college years, some self help stuff not only got me out of the funk, but made me accomplish what just a year ago was not even a realistic aspiration for me.

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I swear to God.
One day I was looking through the shelves in “chapter”, I looked at this book, which had rather funky cover page. Title was funny to “how to ignore ever one”
It was a small book and so I looked at it(usually I don’t even go in self help book section)

I swear, It was like some one stole my ideas, all 39 of them, and wrote them in that book. Most of the things I have said right here, and I was mocked too :smiley:

It was newYork’s time’s best seller.

Book was how about ppl with exceptional quality can save their virtue and pursue their dreams, with out turning their lives to nightmare.

That day I wanted to ask TLK to pay me for posting :omg:

.. chalo kheer:D

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Yes they work. I don't like calling them Self Help though. Self development is a better word.

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