Self-help books

[Phillip V]

The Bible is the only self-help book you need.

[HVC]

The Bible is the only self-help book you need.

that's a depressing self help book. Basically whatever you do you're doing it wrong and going to hell because of it

[Syt]

The only self-help book I ever read was a downloaded PDF. "How to immediately connect with everyone." It gave mostly some pseudo-psychological stuff about how to look at people and secret handshakes that had impressed the author in the past. The most valuable insight (with a major "No shit, Sherlock" factor) was to be sympathetic to people and make them talk about themselves while making them feel you're interested in what they're saying/doing.

[Capetan Mihali]

What kind of "self-help" are you looking for?  Relationships?  Career?  Mazlowesque self-actualization?

I dunno...I guess I need a book to help me figure that out.   

[Brazen]

Never. In fact I'm reading Francis Wheen's "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World" and it devotes a whole chapter to the god-awful claptrap that is self-help books.

The closest I've come to a self-help book is probably "Eats Shoots and Leaves", which at least injected clarity into my punctuation life.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It might be interesting to read the Samuel Smiles book :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Help_%28book%29

I daresay you can get it free as well.

[Josquius]

How to make friends and influence people rather helped me.

[Martinus]

How to make friends and influence people rather helped me.

Not sure if serious.

[Josquius]

How to make friends and influence people rather helped me.

Not sure if serious.

Yeah, serious. I was rather socially retarded back when I was a teen.

[Brazen]

I daresay you can get it free as well.

Knock yourself out:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=297&Itemid=27