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The only "self-help" book I've ever really read is Stephan Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It has really impacted my way of thinking and the way in which I tend to act on the world.
However, I know that the only reason why it's been so helpful for me was that I took a leadership class where the book was the main text, and the habits were presented over the course of the semester one by one. I then became a TA for the class and had a semester of training (basically taking the class again for no credit) and then a semester of being a TA...so I went over the book three times with help from people who could explain it to me (or that I had to explain it to).
I think that self help books can work, but they require a lot of work and a lot of time and effort to make worthwhile. And any real change is going to have to be through continued self reflection which is extremely difficult for a lot of people...If you don't go in with the right attitude, youre destined to fail from the beginning.
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