Aint no shame in needing a little bit of helpeven if it's just from a book. But with so many self-help titles on the market these days, finding the right read for you and your current sitch isn't ...

“No literary genre divides opinion quite like self-help,” said Josiah Gogarty in GQ. Some people love it, while others steer well clear. But the best personal growth books “cover a lot more ground ...

Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn. By Emma Goldberg There’s a certain flavor of ...

Emotionally exhausted readers need self-help that feels humane, not harsh. Ten books offer comfort, science, philosophy, ...

It is easy to dismiss self-help books and those who read them. But not only do we need serious self-help, we must also take self-help more seriously. Valued at $11 billion worldwide, self-help is a ...

A few common themes echo throughout forthcoming self-help titles: attention is a limited resource, there’s value in a curious mindset, and kindness toward oneself can be as crucial as kindness toward ...

To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...

In the quiet moments when your mind drifts—about 30 to 50 percent of waking hours—the real epiphanies strike. Not when highlighting passages in a self-help book or diligently absorbing advice. Change ...

The Ancient Greek historian Plutarch is known for his incisive essays in Moralia, a collection that reads like a modern-day ...