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Amando Abreu
Amando Abreu

May 10, 2020

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The Self-Help You Just Read Was Garbage

Do you want help or do you just want to feel helped?

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

If the self-help book you just read made you:

  1. feel capable of taking on the entire world
  2. feel very good about yourself
  3. feel super-duper optimistic
  4. feel like things are really simple

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