Why reading self-help books doesn’t works
What does helping your self really meant and why just reading books or articles doesn’t mean anything.
Strolling around your favorite bookstore or browsing around the internet often we found some books or articles about self-improvement, self-help or life supplement that trying to teach us to be a better version of yourself. Sometimes we read those things and find that they only teach us something that we already know or just common senses things that we think we don’t need someone to tell us about that kind of things. I think it is normal to think like that, but sometimes common senses are not so common and we need someone to remind us.
when I was a kid, I grew up on as someone that does not enjoy reading a novel or story, but one thing that I do enjoy reading is about self-help and self-improvement book. What did someone at age 10 expect from reading a book that told him to meditate and find the peaceful thought, to have an investment in your asset, or improving his working style? I don’t even remember anything on that book that I read, but one thing I know is that our brain works in a mysterious way.
- The fact shows that our brain is like a huge hard-disk, that according to recent studies on neuroscience estimated data that can be stored to our brain is 10 terabytes to 2.5 petabytes (One terabyte is equal to about 1,000 gigabytes or about 1 million megabytes; a petabyte is about 1,000 terabytes.)
Data that is stored to our brain are permanently stored by our unconsciousness mind, it’s like when someone under hypnosis that they can recall some memories from the past. It is because the memory is still there it just needs our conscious mind to recall it. -
Turns out my habit to learn things that can improve my self-care really affecting my self. It like every time that I have thoughts that I should improve, the motivation is come from within me. Somehow there’s that this memory of the self-improvement books once I’ve read that pops out of my mind when I faced by some condition that related to it.
Yet, the point of reading is to get informed, remembered, and keep learning how things can be improved. Our process of improving yourself is like what Michael Angelo said
“Ancora Imparo”
“Yet, I’am still learning”
So maybe it is true, that reading all those self-improvement books and stuff doesn’t really improve your life. But it also trues that everything that you learn would be useless unless you made something out of it isn’t it?
The thing is that you can change your life by just reading something, you have to do it.
