Self Help

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I prefer the self-help books that insult my intelligence in the title.

"Self-actualization for complete dumbasses"

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Brilliant idea -- I'm gonna write a book the helps people figure out which self-help book they need!

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sometimes the research you are able do yourself is not enough because of hype. the hype alone can trigger "scientific studies" that get approved just because they are about a visible topic and the results get cherry-picked by "journalists" creating a false sense of consensus to everyone who didn't spend their life studying the topic in detail.

see books like 80/20 running (based on a "study" done by the author on members of a single running club with n<=5 participants per group) or baby led weaning (based on the ability of the author to bullshit parents with baby brain) that created whole movements behind them and claimed to be based on strict scientific research.

sometimes even researchers themselves can get swiped away by the collective delusion (hype) even in otherwise very rigorous fields (e.g. string theory in physics or all the "AI" research going on right now).

the only way to be sure that what you are learning is right is if it can show past results. someone (many someones) took the risk before you and went with it. and they came up with predictions that panned out and applications that were useful and are well known.

you can be adventurous and try new promising things, but be aware of what you are doing, why and what the cost and consequences are.

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Atomic Habits is pretty dope and makes a lot of sense

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yes, you do it yoursef, but you always need some external inputs and inspiration before you try something new. and where you get that inspiration and what you try matters a lot.

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Is there a Power of I Don't Know or a Power of Can You Repeat the Question?

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The Power of The Power

Captain Aggravated

According to Ben Rich, 2/3 HBS = BS

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The secret is buying these books! It's all about buying these books!

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Hmm I should make a book titled "everything in moderation". It'll be 500 pages long, and take every single self improvement be-all-end-all solution to whatever problem, and tell you "no, there is no single solution that magically solves every complex issues". Nothing fancier, just that, over and over, for hundreds of pages.

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A book called 'Everything in Moderation being 500 pages is ironically hilarious.

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Luckily what I'm reading is very well studied and plenty of people from other sides of the CICO debate have input so it's an easy topic to learn up on and have respectable information.

I think for topics that are more fringe and or less sensation driven misinformation is easy to pass through. (But I guess the same can be said for extremely popular topics too)

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Well... help yourself.

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You should do in first chapter a summary of the yes book and the no book, and give the reader a way to keep the tally.

2md chapter same thing with next topic, and so on.

Readers will be 2x as powerful per chapter compared to any single book.

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I love Christmas and Halloween, but International Naked in the Library Day is my favourite.

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Scientific studies and journalists are opposites, why would you trust a journalist with information? All they have is opinions and they're not better than mine.

swab148

Long Back Syndrome

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When you haven't seen the sun in so long you start to glow.

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Hey, that's the same person who sold me a bridge!

CarrotsHaveEars

And turn on the bell!