A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.
Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.
In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.
I go to a lot of self-help groups in the day, and then I can sleep pretty well at night.
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.
