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It's not "self help", but anything by Alan Watts will help you think of "self" in a very different way. And again, not self-help, but I love recommending Shop
by beat 9y ago
It's not "self help", but anything by Alan Watts will help you think of "self" in a very different way.
And again, not self-help, but I love recommending Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B Crawford, for reconsidering your relationship with work and finding joy in your career. The full book is worth reading, but this essay link gets the gist of it.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-so...
- stinkytaco 9y agoI'll offer a dissenting opinion on the book. I read it, enjoyed it, but thought "this should just be an essay". Then I found the essay and feel it communicates the essential point.
- skrebbel 9y agoI mostly stopped reading non-fiction books because of this. You have to wrestle through seven chapters of introductory bullshit because the author gets to the point, just because a blog post doesn't sell for $20. I wish there was a culture where good essays would actually sell for $20. Something with a "perceived value per word" review score maybe.
- mziel 9y agoI find the same thing even with critically acclaimed "Thinking Fast and Slow" or "Power of habit". On the other hand sometimes blogposts may not be exhaustive enough. IMO roughly 60-100 pages is the perfect format – you don't need to overly simplify the topic (like in blogpost, newspaper article) but you don't need to repeat yourself 10 times over (like in 300-400 page book).