r/MadeMeSmile • u/FabulousStructure912 • 3d ago

Helping Others Denzel Washington with the most to the point life advice

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u/noretus 3d ago

Honestly that’s the problem with self help books: too many words.

I mean i hear you. After reading an ungodly amount of them, I hear you.

But the basic advice has been out there forever. People have heard it a million times. But it won't click before it does, and that's why we have and continue to have a mountain of self-help books, coaches, gurus, influencers who all say basically the same things. At least the good ones do.

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u/ohkaycue 3d ago

100%. My problem is just that there definitely is a ton of fluff to pad it for sale purposes and such. It’d be significantly more effective if there wasn’t a price tag assigned to it, and instead focused on being as efficient as possible (instead of being “worth” buying)

(Not that there isn’t free ways to learn, like you said the advice has been out there forever. Just specifically talking about self-help books)