Comments on: Do Self Help Books Really Help?

By: graham

graham — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:40:48 +0000

I discovered your blog on self help while looking for mine. I think your approach to self help is excellent and will put a link in my blog to encourage those who have read mine to read yours, as well.

The main point on which we differ is that precisely because self help books tell you what you already know, they tend to be an unnecessary expense that doesn’t add much to the journey. And the further tendency is to buy ALL of them, which adds to the confusion of trying to figure out what to do.

If and ONLY if a person is ready to improve, they need only follow a few basic principles (actively), and the results will be much more effective than reading about it (passively). As someone has said, self help isn’t rocket science.

- Graham

By: video tragaperras

video tragaperras — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:18:21 +0000

I personally believe that self help book really help, the most practical example is here i am writing this post. My self esteem was so low that i couldn’t be able to say or write of single world of English. But a self help book “You can win” was generated a power of self confidence in me that today i am able to interact well with this people in this language.

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By: Amit Bhatia

Amit Bhatia — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:32:46 +0000

Cool… thanks Evi. I was just going to start think negatively about self-help stuff and your blog just came in time. Thanks for this excellent. It just saved me from thinking negative about self-help stuff. Good Bless ya!

By: Kelley

Kelley — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:28:44 +0000

I have been an avid reader of self help and how to books for years, so this article by Evi was very refreshing and enlightening. Self help books motivated me to start my own business. www.completeidiotsbooks.com

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:27:56 +0000

I think they will help, if you’re open to them!

I’ve learned to love myself and not to be so judgmental. It’s hard because I noticed in every picture i would find the worst of it in 1 second and I would just focus on that losing sight of how beautiful the actual picture looks. Focusing on how ‘fat’ I looked or how I wasn’t smiling good enough. I’ve had it with that person. That person was never happy. Now because of this book I.M.Heart I’ve learned to love myself and just live each day in a happier mind set. Just in time too, wedding pictures are coming up, can’t be too judgmental with those now!

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:39:25 +0000

I think if you walk away with one item out of any book or read, you have helped yourself.

By: Kavita

Kavita — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:55:16 +0000

Very very nice article, Evi. Nowadays people spend only a few hours a month reading a book compared with hours and hours on the Internet and TV, including me. It’s a wakeup call for me. One of my new year resolution is to spend at least 10 hrs/week reading a good book.