Embracing selfhelp books from "summary" of Help me ! by Marianne Power
I devoured self-help books like they were going out of fashion. It was the ultimate form of procrastination. It felt like I was doing something good for myself, even though I wasn't actually doing anything at all. But I was starting to see that reading alone wasn't going to change my life. I needed to take action. I was stuck in a cycle of reading instead of doing. Embracing self-help books was my way of avoiding the real work. I thought that if I read enough books, I would eventually stumble upon the perfect solution to all my problems. But I was missing the point. The real work comes after you put the book down. It's about taking what you've learned and applying it to your life. I realized that I needed to stop using self-help books as a crutch. They were no longer a source of comfort for me. They were a source of avoidance. I had to confront the fact that I was using them as a way to escape reality. It was time to face my fears head-on and start makin...
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