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Self-Help Is Dead, Got Wisdom Instead?

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Peter Limberger
Jan 18, 2024
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I used to read a lot of "self-help" books and blogs. I never enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed reading philosophy. I don't know what good reading all those books did for me. There was a point of diminishing returns reading them, especially when reading them was fuelled by a sense of not being good enough. The suppressed premise in all self-help books is…

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