A Deep Dive into Self Help
16 Jan 2025

A speaker halfway through a self-help book praises its mix of research and personal stories, and how it separates different kinds of productivity. The book stands out for balancing data with real experience.

A speaker halfway through a self-help book praises its mix of research and personal stories, and how it separates different kinds of productivity. The book stands out for balancing data with real experience.
So first of all, I'm like halfway through your book, I want to pay you a compliment. And I feel like this is going to come off as a backhanded compliment, but I don't mean it that way. It is way better written than I thought it was going to be. And not that I like thought you were a bad writer or anything, but very often I will read self help books and it's just like really? It's like very mindless, you know? I am not finding your book to be mindless at all. It's really cool. And I like the combination of research and personal story. And I also think the categorical difference of grinding productivity versus feel good productivity, like how you set that up in the beginning.

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