Bombay Times has joined the stupidity race with an important-sounding article on why self-help books should be avoided and how they cause problems.
For those who don’t know, reading online about the correct way to do pushups is also self-help, buying a book on urine therapy (which doctors won’t tell you about) is also self-help, most holy books are ‘self-help’ material in the guise of spiritual stuff, and even Bombay Times’ article on how self-help books can harm you is ‘self-help’.
Considering how you people swallow everything that’s fed to you, here’s some basic information: Nobody comes into this world knowing anything… we learn as we live, absorbing knowledge, information and wisdom from things around us. School, parents, television, movies, nature and yes, books. If you use the information incorrectly, it’s your fault.
Many of you get a clearer picture of things by reading this blog – so, if you google this blog’s name and come here and get cool information, that’s ‘self-help’.
Some people have obviously been reading the wrong stuff; let me suggest a few self-help books that will change your life completely: Dr Wayne W Dyer’s Pulling Your Own Strings, Anton Szandor LaVey’s The Satanic Bible, Dr Wayne W Dyer’s Your Erroneous Zones, and Eckhart Tolle’s The Power Of Now.
The editor of Bombay Times should have known better than to publish the write-up next to two self-help articles (‘Purge Your Friend List’ and ‘Watch Your Tongue’.)
Also, it may come as a shock to some of you, but the Christian bible instructs scared sheep on how to live, which makes it a self-help book, and it’s a pretty fucking useless one.
STUPIDITY SCORE: Bombay Times -1 | Mid Day – 2 | Mumbai Mirror – 1
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