Most self-help books are just buzzword after buzzword with no backing apart from shitty anecdotal evidence written by already rich people who use their name to get easy top-selling books.

Some are actually good, but I feel like most of them are completely useless. There are some exceptions though. The 48 laws of power seems pretty okay when I read it. “Men’s search for meaning”, if you can qualify it as self help is amazing

I’d much rather people read a lot of good history books, you can usually learn a lot more from them.