Favorite self-help books?

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Mine would probably be Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Basically, he talks about certain worldviews common to the Jewish community that give them an advantage in accumulating wealth.

My favorite tidbit was where he talks about anthropological studies of various African tribes which observed how generosity correlated with the level of market activity (buying/selling). The studies found that contrary to the expectations of people who believe in socialist economics, the people who engaged in market activity more often were overwhelmingly more generous even though they were constantly trying to accumulate wealth. Personally, I believe that this can be attributed to the fact that constantly buying and selling and trading will cause you to believe that wealth is fluid and transferrable, while every other idea of property rights will inculcate the belief that wealth is NOT transferable, that social position and ownership are static, or at best hereditary. People who have the static view of property will invariably hold their property very dear and be loathe to give or even loan it out.

I'm not Jewish or affiliated with Rabbi Daniel Lapin.

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The Bible.

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Lol just kidding f*ck god lol. the best self help book is the one you write yourself. i really don't need a stranger from another state or country, that i've never spoken to, have no repoire with and will probably never physically see telling me how to be a better person through the magic of positive thinking.

self-help books are for saps and the people that capitalize on saps. my uncle Jeff, who's a really cool person and very knowledgeable on a wide array of subjects, is a sap. he brings this self-help book to deer camp all the time and reads us stuff from it... i can barely hold back brays of wild hysterical laughter. basically all the stupid anecdotes are based on one theme: positive thinking equals a better life. no duh! confidence is central to success, which is why most CEOs are alpha males with a lot of testosterone and round faces. look it up.

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