Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler, a quote by Albert Einstein.

Let's talk about the many subfields of self-help.

Self-Help is an entire industry, an entire field and a world really onto itself, most people don't even know that self-help is a field or a domain of inquiry or something that you can pursue or something that you can seriously study.

And for most people just to discover the domain of self-help is already a life-changing event.

I can recall very vividly the first time that I is already a life-changing event.

I can recall very vividly the first time

that I discovered self-help almost about 10 years ago,

almost exactly 10 years ago,

when I walked into a Barnes and Noble bookstore and I discovered the self-help aisle

back when there were still Barnes and Noble bookstores in most towns.

And I remember discovering that and just saying to myself, oh my God, this is like a whole new thing. This is a life-changing thing that I've discovered. And it was because I could already immediately see the potential of it.

Because for basically most of my early teenage life in my early 20s up to this point,

I was interested in self-help type topics like I was

interested in psychology I was interested in philosophy I was interested in

what happiness was I was interested in being more productive and so forth but I didn't know about

the field explicitly I didn't know that there was an entire industry that cater to

these types of people who were interested in this type of stuff.

Experts who had studied this stuff for years and then put all their insights into books

and you could find it all in just one category in the

book self-help section at a bookstore.

You know, so for me that was a life-changing event because what happens that you pick up one of these self-help books

and then that gives you all sorts of new ideas and then you pick up another self-help book and

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