Re:Ask HN: Are books worth it?
by carapace on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:57PM
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Cheers! Well met.
Here's the thing: those cheesy books of fluffy platitudes help people.
Take Berg's "The Secret". Its exactly the kind of book you're talking about IMO: the "secret" is literally one sentence just sixteen words long. And yet thousands (millions?) of people got something from it.
Who are we to say that's so wrong?
Frankly, it's weird to me that the "self-help" genre seems to attract opprobrium.
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Did you get anything out of any of those books you read? Were any of them any good? I'm just curious.
Here's the thing: those cheesy books of fluffy platitudes help people.
Take Berg's "The Secret". Its exactly the kind of book you're talking about IMO: the "secret" is literally one sentence just sixteen words long. And yet thousands (millions?) of people got something from it.
Who are we to say that's so wrong?
Frankly, it's weird to me that the "self-help" genre seems to attract opprobrium.
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Did you get anything out of any of those books you read? Were any of them any good? I'm just curious.