Five Pieces of Pragmatic Life Advice from Five Recommended Self-Help Books
From almost suicidal to almost enlightened
My mum was trying to explain what anthropology was over Zoom to me, an anthropologist.
I told her this was “mansplaining’, but she wouldn’t have it.
“I have life experience that can’t be replaced by books, and anthropologists study people’s life experiences.”
It’s true, for humanities matters, like life wisdom and mental health, theories are not enough, we need life experience (obviously go so far to assume one’s personal experience is representative to a whole academic discipline, like my mum, is a little too far).
There’s a high chance that you are reading one self-help book after another if you are reading this type of article from this type of publication.
So let’s take a pause, have you learned anything?
Lesson 1: At some point, we need to give up introspection
I just wrote an article praising the absolute importance of introspection, we should all go to therapy before shit hits the fan: