apocalypse
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It's because at least 80% of every self help book is the author telling anecdotes from their life, and they always read like reddit larps. The events in these stories and the things people say just happen to line up perfectly to demonstrate the author's point, whatever it may be. That is, these stories are giving "and then everyone clapped". I get it, you have to embellish messy real-world experiences to make them palatable in a book, but I just can't shake the feeling that they embellish a lot to sell their shitty books (why wouldn't they?), which sucks out the desire to keep reading them.
