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Podcast: How To Be...Books Podcast
Episode: Episode 36: Critical - What Are The Issues With Self-Help? With Michael Brian McDonnell
Description: Welcome to "How To Be...", exploring how to gain life skills, whilst attempting to gain some myself. Self-help author Mark Manson writes about some of the toxic aspects of the industry including having some non-qualified people peddling ideas that can make people feel inferior and create unrealistic expectations if they can't follow the same path and have the same results. So how can we critically analyse the ideas that we follow? Looking into what the 'experts' say about self-help and whether it is truly helpful? And also hearing from others who have gained some mastery over themselves. Please hit subscribe...