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alex noble
May 2008 
NOTES: Self Help Books
Posted on May 29th, 2008
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AlexNoble
AlexNoble
I have an addiction, it seems, to self help books. With each new secret, solution, answer, method or system that comes available, I have to read it, or at least have it on my bookshelf for a rainy day. The buying of self help books is a guilty pleasure, because there is always the hope that this new book will provide The Answer to Everything, and that my life will be, somehow, magically transformed by whatever words of wisdom live in these pages. I often wonder why I am so hungry for wisdom and ideas that promise transformation. Am I not good enough as I am? What if there were no self help books available to me? Would I be able to become a better person just by entering deeply into my own experience, observing it with clarity and precision, and learning from the very stuff of life itself, unfiltered by someone else's perception and process? I love what George Bernard Shaw said when someone asked him what books he would take with him if he had to spend a year on a desert island. Shaw replied: "Blank ones." Is the book I write for myself, perhaps the best self help book of all?
Alex Noble
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