What is your fav or fav to hate self-help book?

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What some people might not know about me is that I am bit of a self-help junkie.

I love self-help books.

Even if I don’t like their advice, don’t listen to it or apply it or even if it makes me angry—I just like reading this genre. I find it fascinating.

My all time fav is How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. What relieved me most about this book is that I didn’t need to be taught many of its messages.

The main message—don’t be an asshole—is actually the advice I give my writing students when talking about networking and literary communities but then I add a little caveat—unless you’re poet.

If you’re a poet then you can be a bit of an asshole. I say this because I’m also a poet and sometimes an asshole.

But most of the advice in the book is actually pretty basic and comes naturally to me anyway—listen to others, ask people about themselves, etc.

Nonetheless it is still a fascinating read especially since it’s a timeless classic.

What are your fav self-help books?

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