Our resident self-help geeks, Dr. Doyle and Dr. Christine Whelan, along with Jean, talk about self-help books that aren’t self-help books—that is, books that were not written to be self-help books but have been adopted into self-help culture, or society at large, as self-helpy how-to life manuals. Some are about other aspects of mental health and wellness, some are memoir or autobiography, some are straight-up fiction, but somehow they either took on a self-help life of their own, or have been readily adopted by the self-help industry, or launched the author into the self-helpisphere.
The rest of the notes are just links.
So. Many. Links.
To Read:
The Bible by God(?)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
The Power of Purpose by Richard J. Leider
Self-esteem by Nathaniel Branden
The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Brandino
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Art of the Deal by Tony Schwartz and Donald Trump
I’m Ok; You’re Ok by Thomas Harris
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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