What are some of your favourite self help books?

[jennifer_bloom]

I like the giving way to happiness and the rabbit effect.

The first book is about the emotional and psychological benefits of being nice to others.

The second book is about the medical and biological benefits of being nice to others.

One is written by a billionaire sponsored wealth management C. E. O.,

The other is written by a top mental health doctor who has worked in various research capacities at top medical organizations.

[ilistengood]

My younger brother and I used to have sort of a Christmas tradition, it was see who could find the strangest book. Most years it was fulfilled by items like the Gilligan islands cook book or other such literary oddities. This particular year I hadn't found a suitable contestant. I was in barns and noble and I ran across the comedy section , I slowly moved from book to book and none were seemingly up to the task
I was at the end of the section and about to move on when a thunderclap rolled through the store, q heavenly light shown down illuminating one book. A heavenly choir sang as I reached for it and when it was in hand , I was pleased to see it was titled " how to avoid alien abductions.. I flipped through looking at the topics , and towards the last pages I found detailed instructions on the making of a tin foil helmet to block alien mind control techniques..
I BOUGHT THE BOOK FULLY BELIEVING I HAD THIS YEARS WIMNNER. Later that night I was bored and leaned through it more, I had the distinct notion that this wasn't meant to be funny.. after some sherlockian investigations I determined that it was indeed offered as a self help manual. ( a fact which should have been enough to win on its basis alone.
Needless to say I was the victor that year , and by such a margin it was the last year the competition was run.

P. S. the contest was held back in 1995, but still today my brother keeps the manual handy. I suppose , should aliens actually invade the earth, my brother will be prepared beyond the average Americans , the joke will then be on me.

[krin_m]

I don't read those kind of books!

[Amy_2000]

I dont read much