Think you can do better than putting tape on your dog's paws? What's your favorite life hack?
@Feefa99
3 жыл бұрын
Awareness of emotions and life situation
@WisecrackEDU
3 жыл бұрын
I'll start. I have this idea where I invite a bunch of rich kids to a private island for a musical festival that never actually happens.
@bestpseudonym1693
3 жыл бұрын
Being a government backed corp that's too big to fail and then engaging in financially risky endeavors of which I can pass the costs of onto the government
@georgiosfilippatos3229
3 жыл бұрын
"I quited the morning lattes save more to invest in my dropshipping business and I keep a gratitude diary I write everyday in my commute to work"
@sasshole8121
3 жыл бұрын
If you eat your own poop, you can save a ton on groceries.
@brendonbrackin
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. As a person who was balls deep in the self help world for years and then got out feeling like I got out of a cult, I really appreciate this. It gives me more perspective.
@CuriousCat_4
3 жыл бұрын
In my experience those cult-like dynamics are rampant in new age groups, which also rely heavily on the self-help idea, but framing it as spirituality.
@bluespiral4678
3 жыл бұрын
I'm all for taking the good stuff and discarding the bad. There's wisdom and truth one can glean from tenets or philosophies in the self help sphere, moreover, there's plenty of ideas to dispense with as well.
@07jackg
3 жыл бұрын
Respect my man - I'm glad you found some perspective and were able to escape the loop - more power to you!
@MrBlodhund
3 жыл бұрын
Do you meditate?
@brendonbrackin
3 жыл бұрын
@@07jackg thank you. I feel better allowing myself to experience all of being human. It's much better.
@martinp3166
3 жыл бұрын
Significant problem with these gurus' advice: too much focus on 'self' and not on 'help'
@englishmfkrdoyouspeakit2144
3 жыл бұрын
no shit sensei 🤣
@Feefa99
3 жыл бұрын
Just don't write book for monetisation reasons
@martinp3166
3 жыл бұрын
@@englishmfkrdoyouspeakit2144 To you and me, sure. However, if that statement really was too obvious, the snake oil salesmen wouldn't collectively be running an extremely lucrative industry on gullible and miserable people.
@wood2640
3 жыл бұрын
Why search for self help by read other people book, that not self help that help. It fucking bullshit by the name which hilarious." We wake up eat 3 meal and shit and go to bed what the fucking mystery" George Carlin
@greggeverman5578
3 жыл бұрын
Very key point.
@tily5939
3 жыл бұрын
How to get rich: sell a bunch of books and seminars telling people they aren't rich because they don't try hard enough
@sheenabeena2838
3 жыл бұрын
LITRALLY
@catdogmousecheese
3 жыл бұрын
That's not all; the books are really just a gateway drug. Vol. 1 costs $50 Vol. 2 costs $70 Vol. 3 costs $150 And for only $99.99 a month you can become a premium member of our club and, for an extra $2,000, you can spend one week at our "Better You Ranch" so we can fix what's wrong with you.
@skkully4676
3 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what seminars are....it's sad that people are stupid enough to PAY someone to tell them something they already know.
@Pomoscorzo
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, or telling them they only need to go the same way as the writer to have success. Like it was possible to have the exact same life experiences, chances, characteristics etc. 🤨
@eomoran
3 жыл бұрын
If it's so easy, do it yourself.
@crimsonhalo13
3 жыл бұрын
Alternate title: *"How we went from collaborative aid, to bootstrap conservatism, to multiple cults of personality: a story in three acts."*
@beaug5308
3 жыл бұрын
And if you look at the solarpunk and Metamodern (and I'm sure many other) ongoing movements you can see the mutual aid being aimed at again :) we're figuring ourselves out
@Lucarioguild7
3 жыл бұрын
The whole time I was thinking about how american it is to turn a populist movement into a way to pit the working class against each other
@narutofan08nd12
3 жыл бұрын
Every day I hate individualistic conservative values just a little bit more
@beaug5308
3 жыл бұрын
@@narutofan08nd12 love is the answer my friend, you have to see your imagined enemy for their fears, their loves, and you'll find mutual ground. Hatred will just spawn more hatred. If you align with mutual aid you align against hatred already, any fear or insecurity you have is the design of an abuser, a manipulator, same in those you hate. Gather against the great system of abusers :)
@thewildcardperson
3 жыл бұрын
@@narutofan08nd12 your idiotic soclist values are what lead to real world genocides conservative values are what lead to the enlightenment and all the rights we have today remeber that
@bluehornet632
3 жыл бұрын
Working in a bookstore for years Ive seen the kind of addiction to self-improvement books the industry fosters. Individuals will drop hundreds a year literally looking like and hoping the next book will change their lives. I have no clue if it work for any of the habitual customers but considering they never stopped buying more s-h books, not likely. Its crazy the amount of writers with no backgrounds in psychology just hit it big with a catchy phrase.
@wallaceleewl9189
3 жыл бұрын
Correct. The limits of self help books are depends how much the individual absorb, apply and retain in the individual. Too many self help can have the opposite effects. Keeping an open mind is important. So as discerning the information being produced by the self help gurus is as important.
@Dong_Harvey
3 жыл бұрын
I used to think spending so much on DnD books was a waste, but nothing compared to Self-help scams.. at least DnD compels imagination
@1chienandalou
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dong_Harvey as an actual psychiatrist and neuropsychologist, better to spend time and money on DND than the average self help book/community!
@Dong_Harvey
3 жыл бұрын
@@1chienandalou thanks for the heads up
@JP-ve7or
2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I would just look at all the self help books, realize my problems are totally common and normal, then leave without buying any (or maybe buying a good novel 🙂)
@TheKing-ve7lz
3 жыл бұрын
I used to think self help was perfect and that everything I was struggling with was all entirely my fault. And to a some degree I think i was right. I have been working to improve myself over the last few years and I feel better for it in at least some small ways. However it is unhealthy to shift the blame for these things entirely on yourself as I have learned recently. Improving yourself is an admirable and very worthwhile goal that everyone should pursue but there are serious problems with institutions these days and I'd even argue serious problems with the way capitalism functions making it harder than it needs to be for people to get ahead. If you are struggling you can and should work on self improvement, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't also criticize and fight against oppressive systems that make things harder than they should be.
@Cat_in_Spacetime
3 жыл бұрын
Just like the big oil companies blamed us by creating "Your Carbon Footprint"
@SW-jg7yh
2 жыл бұрын
YES, this is it. So much of self help just devolves to gaslighting if we do not look at the larger social structures that are keeping people miserable, lonely and impoverished.
@James_36
Жыл бұрын
Its funny that people go around hating on capitalism like it exists lol. I don't really believe it does, the whole system is designed to make most people never rich or well off, how is that capitalism? It also is 100% not free market. In the UK for instance anyone earning over 40k is immediately hit with 40% tax hit alone not to mention national insurance lol. Then you have businesses constantly trying to keep wages down and therefore each year a job goes down in real value. I dont know what you call it but it aint capitalism
@DrumWild
3 жыл бұрын
I asked the lady at the book store where I could find the Self Help section. She refused to show me, citing that doing so would go against the whole point. The self help industry is full of grifters and bullshit artists.
@availanila
3 жыл бұрын
Or she just didn't want people to fall prey to the good ol' grifters and stuff. 🤔🤷😔
@dantejackson8670
3 жыл бұрын
Drumwild , that is hilarious
@ryltair
3 жыл бұрын
Self-help is more a symptom than a cure. We grow up in a world in which we're constantly bombarded with images of how our lives should be. Movies, commercials, songs, books, family, friends, the workplace... This results in us chasing these images in order to achieve fulfillment, but they aren't real. And instead of truly helping us by realizing that we're chasing ghosts, self-help tells us how to build our own proton pack.
@JoeyLevenson
Жыл бұрын
Ghostbusters ref! Nice.
@alphabetbeer
3 жыл бұрын
Wisecrack going increasingly from "Look at this funny connection to philosophy in media" to "Eat the rich, for the world is on fire and they are fat for the harvest." Has been a beacon in these dark times. Thank you.
@bigfoot9405
3 жыл бұрын
"lets turn your humanity into a hu-brand-ity" - Hugh Brandity
@ginkiba3
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe, just maybe the overall economy and system we all work in demands so much effort for minimal return that it seems easier to fix or improve yourself than trying to address something more structural and existential. It's easier to literally sell books, pills, and ad revenue than policy and ideas that need to actually be invested in to work.
@1chienandalou
3 жыл бұрын
Yep a combination of hope and Stockholm syndrome kinda guarantees there will be enough people who will want to believe all the promise of self help, (and MLMs, 4 hour work weeks, courses, vitamin shakes, workouts, and all manner of snake oil/too good to be true schemes)...
@ShadowWulfGaming
3 жыл бұрын
Coming from the world of MLMs marketing and sales. Yeah I can see where this is all coming from
@SW-jg7yh
2 жыл бұрын
As a trained therapist, this video is so IMPORTANT. Honestly, most people are wounded in ways that are RELATIONAL and to really understand these dynamics in a way that we can then change them requires a RELATIONAL component to the healing (ie. in the presence of another person). The idea that we can all "heal" our relational wounds by sitting by ourselves and paying content creators is just further exemplifying the relational issues that so many of us are becoming more plagued by as technology proliferates.....
@HMMELD
2 жыл бұрын
Dave Ramsey is the real deal. He actually helps people get out of debt, gives them useful advice.
@michellep9867
3 жыл бұрын
"Start a religion... Then perform a miracle and let the cash roll in!" Hey - worked for Jim Jones!
@cynthmcgpoet
3 жыл бұрын
And L. Ron Hubbard.
@pillarman
3 жыл бұрын
Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, Influencer, The guy who conducts seminars on how to make money on forex and bitcoin etc ...all these people are the new snake oil salesmen
@sheldondowning958
3 жыл бұрын
My dad has been repeatedly telling me to read How to Win Friends and Influence People for years. After seeing this video, I feel like I should try getting to know about this man's message. I will edit after I have finished.
@andrewgutmann9432
3 жыл бұрын
You’re a slow reader, huh?
@FlemetAeton
2 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, I used to fall asleep after a paragraph too.
@paskowitz
3 жыл бұрын
I think the best books that "help", deep dive on a specific topic or problem and then bring a scientifically substantiated process framework for you to apply. You get nothing from generalization.
@natitachulita
3 жыл бұрын
People want an easy way to solve their problems, endlessly seeking the answer. When everyone is simply living in denial... So they mistake self-help books with Philosophy, omitting their own criteria thus blaming themselves and sabotaging things for others as a means to divert from acknowledging the true source of their enslavement. Once they DO have money, a lot of money, the frustration persist and they feel it's never enough stealing or hoarding stuff or attention the void is never filled.
@JohnMoseley
3 жыл бұрын
For the existential dread, try AEDP, as described in Hilary Jacobs Hendel's book "It's Not Always Depression." Seriously. I used to be crushed by it and now not. I guess it's technically a self-help book in that it helps you help yourself, but there's no positive self-affirmation, nor even any dialogues with the dread/anxiety to try to reason it into submission. AEDP's key insight is that anxiety is just a trick you play on yourself, a way of screening off deeper emotions. As awful as anxiety seems, it offers the illusion of control - "I must be better" - whereas the deeper emotions are a kind of loss of control and are often about things you can't control: grief, rage, disgust, excitement, joy, sexual arousal. So when anxiety arises, you can learn to ask yourself: what's this _really_ about? And then you look for the feelings in your body.
@michelleburkholder2547
3 жыл бұрын
A little Tony Robbins transformed my life and when I became depressed and overwhelmed since it was all my fault. I came scary close to suicide. I had never been so depressed or self loathing in my life.
@1chienandalou
3 жыл бұрын
NOT your fault! Glad you’re still here and aware now that these people don’t have the answers!
@mrfarenheit0323
3 жыл бұрын
When money is involved, it becomes much less about the help.
@vietimports
3 жыл бұрын
self help is okay. its when truly desperate people throw money at this that grifters show up to take advantage, like with anything
@LuisSierra42
3 жыл бұрын
It's not okay sir, it's just a gigantic scam. The only person who truly knows your own situation and who can find the solution to your own problems is yourself, not some rando talking shit in a book
@LobsterFusion
3 жыл бұрын
I agree. I mean I have gotten value from self help and financial gurus. But there comes a point where you take the help and advice, apply it and move on with your life OR you buy in even more, join the cult and drink the kool-aid to the point where it’s not helping anymore. It’s just masturbation of the mind.
@vietimports
3 жыл бұрын
@@LuisSierra42 how is self help not okay? you think its bad to find guidance in improving yourself? buying one book on self help is okay. throwing your life savings to buy lessons and go to seminars is bad
@LuisSierra42
3 жыл бұрын
@@vietimports I guess it all boils down to what you understand by "improve yourself". When one feels inadequate about one's identity (which is often caused by unrealistic societal expectations) one tends to seek guidance. This is precisely the niche these books are for, they pray on insecurity. Why would you willingly choose to believe some rando who has built a personal brand based on half truths and lies than trust your own instinct or the people that actually care about you?
@vietimports
3 жыл бұрын
@@LuisSierra42 i dont think people need to buy self help books. but if people want to, then why should i care? the problem comes when they are truly desperate and throw everything at trying to find a solution to whatever problem they have.
@heronimousbrapson863
2 жыл бұрын
If self help books really worked, nobody would need to keep printing new ones.
@devinwalton408
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve done an expedited Dale Carnegie training. I took away a lot of lessons about how to communicate with people and make myself more approachable as a leader.
@silverblue73
3 жыл бұрын
How to handle dissatisfaction without imploding is the only self-help you need
@stevenscott2136
3 жыл бұрын
And Siddhartha figured that out centuries ago: train yourself to not care. The Abrahamic religions also came fairly close with their "you're an uncredited bit-player in a plot you couldn't understand" mindset. But human competitiveness always turns "resigned acceptance" philosophies into "scrabble for advantage" philosophies over time.
@AnimeWolf5193
3 жыл бұрын
They're all the same: "Hey, my life sucked, just like yours! Just follow these ten steps; 1. Think positive. 2. Be positive. 3. Say positive things 4. Don't think about negative things. 5. Don't lie to yourself. 6. Lie about being happy until you are. 7. ARE YOU POSITIVE YET?! 8. BE POSITIVE ALREADY!!! 9. IF YOUR NOT POSITIVE YET, START OVER!!!! 10. Pay for the cassettes. (No refunds) BOOM!... You are _reborn."_
@sinajafarzadeh9577
2 жыл бұрын
I have read a lot of self help books in the past and tbh I eventually came to conclusion that the issue with a lot of them is that they are too general to appeal to everyone but not specific enough to actually help anyone. Like you tell me you want to become a doctor? I can show you a clear path. Want to find a wife? There is a clear path. Want to become an athlete? There is a path. But when the question turns to “how to be happy” then it is impossible to answer because it depends on literally million of factors that are specific to you and not anyone else
@dharmabalance
2 жыл бұрын
There’s also the self help health industry, where you take pricey programs that mix supplements and affirmation, and are told if you didn’t heal it’s your fault.
@370530e
3 жыл бұрын
Man goes into bookstore. Man: “Could you show me where the self-help books are?” Assistant: “Wouldn’t that defeat the object of the exercise?”
@Frenchylikeshikes
3 жыл бұрын
What went wrong ? just like everything else, it became a business, sold sometimes by unscrupulous people, and self-help has it's limits: once you've seen 10 videos, you've pretty much seen them all ( which does not mean it is not helpful to start getting better).
@Northwest360
3 жыл бұрын
Gibran and Rilke are the true self-help guides. The only way to really heal is solitude, going within, spending time with yourself, which is, by the way, free.
@Northwest360
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, and a Bill Hicks heroic dose!
@brianarbenz7206
3 жыл бұрын
I recently lost a once valued friend because she felt I constantly was criticizing everything she held important. I started to find fault with the idea of reading self-help books, only to immediately learn that she reads them. That was the point where we stopped a really nice process of becoming closer, and the momentum reversed. Somewhere, Dale Carnegie was feeling vindicated.
@johnzornow1107
3 жыл бұрын
a different understanding of the "protestant work ethic" is not necessarily working yourself to death, (thats more to do with low wages) but making what you gotta do worthwhile by giving it 110%. that includes you're lover. (work hard, play hard)
@Obiwancolenobi
3 жыл бұрын
Spat my coffee out at the "forceful dating app" joke, lmao
@Milubee
3 жыл бұрын
Great video. I'm glad you didn't call me out all that much :D One should be able to practise some self-help while still seeing how there isn't equality in this world, having compassion for people who sturggle and keep on joining fights for better conditions in our society for all of us. Though you can be perfectly self-centered without self-help, it's just what our style of living breeds, so I don't blame self-help industry for trying to make self-centered life more fullfilling if nothing else.
@elultimopujilense
3 жыл бұрын
Microdosing is totally legit guys. I feel like i have superpowers now, I can have 14 productive hours a day with no effort. Its truly incredible that society thinks these drugs are dangerous, when our body works way better with them. Think for yourself people, reality is much more awesome and wirder than anyoen could have expected.
@notthedroidsyourelookingfo4026
Жыл бұрын
10:00 is Gritty being an anarchist canon? Asking the hard hitting questions here.
@charleslee3676
3 жыл бұрын
I blame myself because I know I’m being lazy. The two hours I spend in front of a KZitem can be spent forging my body into something better.
@shawn980
3 жыл бұрын
0:33 Holy ****** I got chills when he said that. For a second I literally felt like he was talking to me.
@dharmabalance
2 жыл бұрын
Very intelligent and interesting. Thanks for informing me!
@brettstarks1846
3 жыл бұрын
The fundamental problem with self-help is that in any society, the majority of people will always be average - what Americans call “losers.” The true measure of a society is whether or not it can enable average people to live decent lives. In a country like America, where only winners have it good, self-help basically tells people that they can all finish in the top 10%, even though that’s unrealistic.
@LXDV
3 жыл бұрын
I use to be obsessed with self-help. Stopped when Gary Vee started telling me to shut the fuck up, work my arse off and do what I love.... Never been happier 😊
@marktaylorauthor1000
2 жыл бұрын
I think the idea of personal development is an amoral one. What biases or perspectives are we bringing to the table. There are the scamming extremes out there upselling everyone, but there’s also the basic principles of learning how to better function in life. Be careful of personality cult followings and keep your eyes open. There’s a lot I’ve found useful in it while navigating through the nonsense. If there’s money to be made, it will be corrupted, but it doesn’t make the ideals worthless
@fs_000
3 жыл бұрын
Learning that modern pop culture self help can make people blame themselves for their problems that are actually caused from society's systems blew my mind!
@Sophistry0001
3 жыл бұрын
I can't help but think the time might be right to fire up the mutual improvement societies again. Imagine how much good communities could do if we spent some time picking each other up.
@pleaserespond3984
3 жыл бұрын
>A way to rise above your station Yeah that's a nice sentiment, but is there room above my station? Why does my station exist in the first place?
@GuapoG0tGuap
3 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, his name was "Conwell"? Lemony Snicket would say that's too on the nose and rename the character lmao.
@JohnMoseley
3 жыл бұрын
See also, Helen *Gurley* Brown writing Sex and the Single Girl.
@ll1881ll
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent history of this issue
@rachumsmcone9184
3 жыл бұрын
I rather think it's possible to accept you are where you are regardless of what caused your situation that is out of your control and look for inspiration and/motivation to make the most of it. The one self help series I particularly liked was about working on your strengths rather then focusing on improving your weaknesses. Any one person who is weak at something can be paired with someone stronger at that thing rather then go through the hardships of trying to be perfectly balanced. This idea helps better build the individual as well as provide better grounds on which to build teams for tasks, a win win for everyone if the right leader knows how to work with the concept.
@johnathanrhoades7751
3 жыл бұрын
I. Hate. Self help in its modern form... poverty is by no means a sure sign of failings of character or deserving.
@offduty23
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds to me like the best way to get ahead is to write and sell self-help books with questionable morals.
@oldeskul
3 жыл бұрын
I like to call the Self-help industry self-helpless because they try to sell you the idea that if you follow their tricky tips, you're guaranteed to become multi-billionaire rockstars who will marry supermodels, then they try to trap you in an ultimately self-defeating cycle where you must buy their next book or attend their next 10 seminars where they claim that they will ultimately reveal the secrets of the universe guaranteed to make you rich and successful...for a fee.
@34adnanali26
3 жыл бұрын
Really loved the way u explain it through history truely u exposed self help people don't waste time on self help and develop a skill to reach a goal ys goal here means money now go
@Lit-E
3 жыл бұрын
Think its a bit of both when it comes to self help, its best to be aware thats its an industry that profits on giving you advice and also promotes the idea of self blame, toxic positivity and trying way too hard to be or do something your not, on the other hand it does also allow people to find information that improves their lives significantly cause it works for them. (I personally never pay for information regarding inproving myself however I have come across significant free life changing info that has impacted my life and has made me realize that if you want to improve yourself, you just need to use some common sense and experiment and find what works for you, its that simple)
@Epoch11
3 жыл бұрын
Existential dread never goes away that's why it's the gift that keeps on giving
@vaishnavikadu3397
3 жыл бұрын
Gwyneth named her company GOOP. Wasn't that a sign enough for us to realise it was gonna be shit?
@cal5266
3 жыл бұрын
Ugh one of my jobs offered dale carnegie classes to add to our resumes. I dropped after the 3rd session. It was so culty and uncomfortable. And everything mentioned was common sense. Treat your employees, coworkers, and customers with respect and everyone will be happier for it.
@JorgeTamezPhoto
3 жыл бұрын
Tim Ferris works 80 hours a week promoting a 4 hour work week
@brennenderopa
3 жыл бұрын
Self help to be rich: sell a lot of self help books. Everybody can do it.
@Bluepuertorican5
3 жыл бұрын
I actually read the “You are a Badass...” book. It actually helped me get out of my shell and be far more confident. Especially for how I viewed myself, and how derogatory I was to myself, it really did help. But I do see how the self help industry has become a money grab. It’s unfortunate, but I do believe that if people are trying to improve themselves without, the monetary pressure, they will be successful
@tshego6172
3 жыл бұрын
Had a self-help advert coming in.
@Nayanexx
3 жыл бұрын
This is a very necessary video for the times we live in.
@pancyclosis
3 жыл бұрын
2:32 as a dude who still has lots of his hair, stop trying to freak me out about my hair. Sell me a bicycle instead
@ThrottleKitty
3 жыл бұрын
So many of these kinds of products are more off putting by how that try to scare people who don't even have the problem into thinking they do. Like acne commercials that throw in one random person with one single pimple next to the person who has a 1/100,000 levels of severe case of debilitating acne, or the weight lose commercial that will just toss in one random person who is at a healthy BMI to make the skinny people feel fat too. It's not enough just to get the people who do have the problem, you have to convince healthy people they have it too.
@pancyclosis
3 жыл бұрын
@@ThrottleKitty whereas I'm thinking that everyone could use another bicycle
@joshbrown2217
3 жыл бұрын
Tbf that Dale guy wasn't too far off. It is mostly about who you know and how you network. Lots of jobs often don't even make it to job sites or recruiters and instead get offered to people through people they know or reach out to on places like linkedin. It's why it absolutely sucks if you join a couple of industries you don't really want to work in and then you find yourself stuck looking for a job in industries where no one wants you or you don't have the skills for them.
@MrMo-zf4ul
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else get a self help ad before the video?
@EdEmJuPe
3 жыл бұрын
Comrade Michael, radicalizing the proles.
@viktoz2897
3 жыл бұрын
Why did I get this notif 2 days after this came out
@L0VEisAmixtape
2 жыл бұрын
The funniest thing is that Angela Duckworth published a book and gave a Ted Talk that "grit" is the solution for success............ DUH.
@trevorjames6767
3 жыл бұрын
The protestant worth ethic is the basis for the reformed nations in Europe becoming developed, But here we are told it was ALL about working yourself to the bone! The protestant work ethic was about working sacredly, that your work is not just a job but an act of worship and this in turn created high levels of productivity and standards because of the revelation that God cares about what you do outside the four walls of the church. So it was not perfect but it was not as materialistic or legalistic as we are told here.
@516estrela
3 жыл бұрын
I partly agree with this video, they made great points, but also live by the philosophy of extreme ownership. I'm not going to wait for the large institutions to do right and change the unfair circumstances surrounding my life. I'm going to do what I can to succeed DESPITE the circumstances I can't control. Personal accountability/discipline = freedom
@LoisoPondohva
3 жыл бұрын
Lives in the best ever time to get ahead Says it's a "bad time to get ahead" There's no pleasing you, is thrre?
@cubencis
3 жыл бұрын
I miss Jared. These just don't seem to have the same sincerity as before
@swanben11
3 жыл бұрын
Harry Brown’s book is more about how to insulate yourself from the whims of public policy than it is how to exploit a crisis. I’m wondering if they actually know who he is.
@deirvindavis5093
2 жыл бұрын
Can y'all do a video on self-help's twin: self-love?
@pieterh6196
3 жыл бұрын
Selfhelp is bs, also buy from snake oil selling sponser
@Benson_Bear
3 жыл бұрын
This is pretty good, but it is a little ironic that it contains an ad for a product that is probably just a dud and which appeals to people's vanity.
@cescohenrichs2655
3 жыл бұрын
I think you missed the whole point of Dale Carnegie‘s book. The book does not advocate for a Super charming person. It famously says you’ll make more friends getting into others. Instead of trying to get others into you.
@cescohenrichs2655
3 жыл бұрын
@@thotslayer9914 Dale Carnegie's book is not like most self-help books. It tells you how to do something very pacific: Make friends and influence others. The way it does this is by cultivating a self that looks outwards and is kinder to others. You should seriously consider looking up “ how to make friends and influence others “ on KZitem. along with his other books how to stop worrying and start living
@vivekprajapati4787
3 жыл бұрын
Now that's wisecrack stuff. Thanks
@deeday09
3 жыл бұрын
I check a new woman’s library and if there’s to much self shit, then it tells me she is inherently flawed. One girlfriend just got angrier and angrier and eventually hit me. And she was all into the wuwu and internalization. I got out quick
@snowballeffect7812
3 жыл бұрын
Jordan Peterson is what went wrong lol
@Trackrace29582
3 жыл бұрын
Why
@snowballeffect7812
3 жыл бұрын
@@Trackrace29582 He was one of the few people who actually gave good self-help and psychological advice, but ended up being a hypocrite and went down a crazy and unscientific path of eating raw beef and profiting off bigotry and the vulnerability of the audience he garnered beforehand.
@ComboSmooth
3 жыл бұрын
Self-help, wellness, most spiritual crap, and religion have one thing in common; they're jam packed full of predatory snake oil peddlers. The people that seek out all that stuff are especially vulnerable and get targeted because of it.
@FreeJulianAssange23
2 жыл бұрын
I can’t take another ad featuring some self help guru know it all.
@wesleypatterson2989
3 жыл бұрын
Damn, yall went for Tim Ferris's throat. I am here for it!
@voswell3292
3 жыл бұрын
You can find the best self-help books in the humour section (at least if you're on the cynical, sarcastic side of life). I always find it amusing when one of these books becomes popular enough to be upgraded to the 'self-help' section, or maybe it's downgraded??
@mak4374
2 жыл бұрын
"Why to keep my hair, and the industry getting rich on that scam". Maybe you should do an episode on that...? Just a thought...
@fearmusrozenrot1864
3 жыл бұрын
I think the Self-help industry has been used by verious groups to push their own greed or agenda countless times, but the principle that you can lead a healthier and happier life by becoming someone /you/ like has merit. Though, what leads to success and such tends to shift with the cultural climate. What it takes to find happiness in your life is very much effected by your environment in many ways. And accepting a level of lack of control of at least the rest of the world outside of yourself I think is key to actually getting anywhere.
@Mike-bs5xi
11 ай бұрын
Eat healthy, exercise and be greatfull for what you do have. A healthy body promotes a healthy mind.
@danilthorstensson8902
3 жыл бұрын
Self-hep legitimizes the rampant soulless capitalism we have today and flattens power relations in our minds. It makes people assume that society is meritocratic, that everyone is on an equal footing, and that any low social position is your own fault. This obviously leaves the powerful off the hook since people will not try to fight injustice if 1. They blame themselves for their problems and 2. Are driven into further individualism rather than into group-oriented self-help that can threaten capital (unions, political parties, direct action groups, etc.)
@moazzammattu3376
3 жыл бұрын
I consider Self help industry as total waste of time and energy, they make money on people's desperate needs to improve themselves and provide no real value in return
@artysarryn9111
3 жыл бұрын
For "Self-Help" I had thought it was an understatement for masturbation.
@jaypurcell3733
3 жыл бұрын
I mean not all self help is garbage but my experience is that it's not very useful if you didn't figure it out yourself/by your own experience and not from a book
@doktordanomite9105
3 жыл бұрын
So its low-level chaos-magick but with a monetary buy in cost.
@iamstannie
3 жыл бұрын
Wisecrack, can you please make a review of Bliss (2021) as big Rick and Morty fans im pretty sure you would love to do that.
@19751222
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe saving the money that spent on those books will actually make me rich…so expensive…
@Jacob-jg6cd
3 жыл бұрын
Everyone is looking for the answer to life, whether it’s religion, psychedelic drugs, yoga, or self-help books.
@nagimori4418
3 жыл бұрын
I would definitely want to read How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody by Michael Burns
@skanvak
3 жыл бұрын
Me too. 😅
@sammyruncorn4165
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, yeah good ol' Mr. Burns
@cynthmcgpoet
3 жыл бұрын
Make it so!
@joryjones6808
3 жыл бұрын
@@cynthmcgpoet All right Picard.
@johngablesmith4671
3 жыл бұрын
But “How to lose friends and alienate people” exists?
@lukashillebrand9670
3 жыл бұрын
"If you are looking for Slef-Help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That's not Self-Help, that's help! There is no such thing as Self-Help. If you did it yourself, you didn't need help. You did it yourself! Try to pay attention to the language we all agreed on." - George Carlin
@iamV10010
3 жыл бұрын
Man, I miss him.
@bluespiral4678
3 жыл бұрын
Language is funny like that
@wesleytarr6302
3 жыл бұрын
Titles for things and concepts can be accurate or ironic like in Mr. Carlin's observation of self help. That book taught this borderline recluse (me) how to treat other people. Didn't have a desire to go out an learn when growing up.
@KaiSosceles
3 жыл бұрын
This is why no one who reads these kinds of books calls this stuff "self-help." We call it "personal development." 👍
@tnatstrat7495
3 жыл бұрын
@@KaiSosceles Ummm. Lots of people call these books self help. Like. Obviously.
@theequasian3823
3 жыл бұрын
My biggest self help was too stop listening to celebrities.
@jacksoncarder8103
3 жыл бұрын
To, have a nice day 👍
@WinterReflections
3 жыл бұрын
Mine was to completely leave social media, as I think everyone who cares about their mental health should do. KZitem comments are as close as I come to social media now, and I'm even trying to back off from them as they get very toxic too.
@Skoal36
3 жыл бұрын
Most Women love listening to brain dead Celebrity zombies because most of them live a boring life.
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