Self Help Books
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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3 statements about Self Help Books, every show
Grant: Society does not need another leadership or self-esteem book
“We just don't need another leadership book. I, I'm pretty convinced. I don't think we need another self-help book either on self-esteem for that matter, right?”
Robinson: Most self-help books fail to show practical execution
“Most how-to books and self-help, they're not really how-to books, they're what-to books. They tell you what to do, but they don't actually show you how to do it”
Cain: 20th-Century Self-Help Literature Shifted Focus From Character to Charisma
“And he looked at the self-help books from the 19th century and compared them to the self-help books from the 20th century. And he found that literally like the words that the authors use were completely different. So in the 19th century,
The words in the self-…”