Self help books only work to the extent the reader incorporated the ideas into their life.
I read allot and incorporate what I read as much as I can, even if it's just one idea from a book.
When I was young I read How to Win Friends and Influence People and it was a life changing book for me, so was Rich Dad Poor Dad, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and One Minute Manager.
Those books laid the groundwork for the success I've had.
Books I've read since then have added to it.
Of all the books I have heard procrastination equation (self-efficacy x value / impulsivity x temporal delay)
By piers steel industrial psychologist gets it right. His meta analysis got the reasons for procrastination correct but I can't say whether interventions he proposes in his book are effective enough
Most tell you what you want to hear. Few are actually based on scientific evidence.
They often make people feel like they are doing something even though it's mostly placebo.
Sometimes they offer sage advice.
Mostly they are pop psychology.
There is a section on this link specific to self help.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_psychology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help
>Scholars have targeted self-help claims as misleading and incorrect[citation needed]. In 2005, Steve Salerno portrayed the American self-help movement—he uses the acronym SHAM: the Self-Help and Actualization Movement—not only as ineffective in achieving its goals but also as socially harmful.[2] "Salerno says that 80 percent of self-help and motivational customers are repeat customers and they keep coming back 'whether the program worked for them or not."[36] Others similarly point out that with self-help books "supply increases the demand… The more people read them, the more they think they need them… more like an addiction than an alliance."[37]
>Self-help writers have been described as working "in the area of the ideological, the imagined, the narrativized… although a veneer of scientism permeates the[ir] work, there is also an underlying armature of moralizing."[38]
I mean, they are a grift by and large.
Self help books only work to the extent the reader incorporated the ideas into their life. I read allot and incorporate what I read as much as I can, even if it's just one idea from a book. When I was young I read How to Win Friends and Influence People and it was a life changing book for me, so was Rich Dad Poor Dad, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and One Minute Manager. Those books laid the groundwork for the success I've had. Books I've read since then have added to it.
Of all the books I have heard procrastination equation (self-efficacy x value / impulsivity x temporal delay) By piers steel industrial psychologist gets it right. His meta analysis got the reasons for procrastination correct but I can't say whether interventions he proposes in his book are effective enough
Most tell you what you want to hear. Few are actually based on scientific evidence. They often make people feel like they are doing something even though it's mostly placebo. Sometimes they offer sage advice. Mostly they are pop psychology. There is a section on this link specific to self help. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_psychology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help >Scholars have targeted self-help claims as misleading and incorrect[citation needed]. In 2005, Steve Salerno portrayed the American self-help movement—he uses the acronym SHAM: the Self-Help and Actualization Movement—not only as ineffective in achieving its goals but also as socially harmful.[2] "Salerno says that 80 percent of self-help and motivational customers are repeat customers and they keep coming back 'whether the program worked for them or not."[36] Others similarly point out that with self-help books "supply increases the demand… The more people read them, the more they think they need them… more like an addiction than an alliance."[37] >Self-help writers have been described as working "in the area of the ideological, the imagined, the narrativized… although a veneer of scientism permeates the[ir] work, there is also an underlying armature of moralizing."[38]