Philadelphia — It takes audacity to write a self-help book. What you’re proclaiming, page after page, is not only that you have a better take on what’s plaguing the human condition than everyone else, ...

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In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

Over the decades that I’ve been a professional writer, dozens of people have told me they want to write a book about their inner and outer lives as cabbies, baristas, pet sitters, pizza deliverers, ...

You can access many psychology self-help books that top experts write. However, can you benefit from reading about how to combat anxiety, depression, and other psychological conditions? For example, ...

And so we will change. We will resolve that with the turn of a calendar page we will make a new start, form a better version of ourselves, a healthier one, one who wakes at dawn and ingests hot lemon ...

It takes audacity to write a self-help book. What you’re proclaiming, page after page, is not only that you have a better take on what’s plaguing the human condition than everyone else, but also that ...