baggage

[sephiaowl]

For some reason (such as Fate's insistence), over the past few days, I've been reminded again and again, by any number of people, that we all have a lot of baggage

Comments

[anonymous]

you probably know what my opinion is of self-help books in general, but I'll bite-- which book?
~SephiaOwl (doesn't want to sign in from work)

[joshuazelinsky]

If we're going to be talking about self-help books, may I recommend Richard Wisemand's "59 Seconds"? Wiseman is a psych professor at the University of Hertfordshire. The book looks at a lot of common self-help claims and then examines what the actual research says. It turns out (probably not that surprisingly) that a lot of commonly repeated self-help claims are utterly wrong. The book isn't a complete downer since it also includes relevant tidbits that have been shown to work in controlled settings.