This isn’t just a pattern of self help books but i’ve noticed that most non fiction pop psychology or business books tend to follow this extremely tiresome patt

This isn’t just a pattern of self help books but i’ve noticed that most non fiction pop psychology or business books tend to follow this extremely tiresome pattern: 1. Start with a little biography for a chapter or so. 2. State your thesis, maybe earlier. 3. Make all of the chapters some principle or broken down element supporting the thesis. 4. Beat the reader over the head with case study after case study. This is great because it fills out what would’ve otherwise been a pamphlet into a real deal 300 page book. 5. Profit? I used to look down on all of these summary companies and stuff like Blinkist but i totally get it now. People aren’t too lazy to read this stuff, it’s just not very important that you understand all of the filler. Also. It’s quite telling whenever these kinds of speed reading goal setting articles get made they’re almost always using self help books. That works because of the points above. No one is ever speed reading War and Peace or East of Eden.