Give me some good self-help books that weren't written by shills

Give me some good self-help books that weren't written by shills.

meditations sucks so bad, it's the most pseudy reddit bullshit i've personally read

>muh reddit
Nice argument buddy

Scott Adam's book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Reading self help has never helped anyone.

steve jobs read be here now by ram dass and then started two billion dollar companies, your results may vary of course

This is the worst I've seen Veeky Forums in at least the last 6 hours

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

>MORE THAN TWO GAJILLION BOOKS SOLD!!!!!

I SAID NO SHILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What....what the FUCK does that even mean?

Seriously. You kids with your memes. Think about it, what does that even mean? How can an ancient Roman emperor's writings be "pseud reddit bullshit".

Fucking what?

elliot rodger ruined the word but this is a great book on how to have social grace.

Well yeah, because your supposed to help yourself. Says so in the name.

a useful primer on conversational skills for introverts like me.

Marcus got like 30 billion upvotes in his day.

I was planning to read it, why is it so bad?

It's not, just read it, it's comfy as heck.

thats what regular literature is for dummy

Any essential background before reading it?

Really rustled my jimmies there boyo.

>as heck