I was big on self-help books right after college. Of course, I don't throw books away, so they're still staring at me in a bookshelf a few feet from where I'm typing this. I may have gotten a few tidbits here and there, but none of them really changed my life. I think their advice was either something I was already doing, or if I forced it, it didn't feel like me, so I didn't continue it for very long. Maybe they would have been more helpful if I had read them when I was 12 and not so set in my ways yet. The only time I really seem to change myself is when I see someone who is successful at where I want to be, and I try emulating some of his/her behaviors, and find they work so well that they eventually become my own. No book necessary for that.
--JCF
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