5 thoughts on “Overheard on Facebook

  1. I thought in California everyone was required to have at least one self-help book on his or her person at all times. Kinda like Mao’s Little Red Book.

  2. Jon is funny & spot-on. Self-help books, like personal trainers at gyms and “life coaches,” are so common in Philip’s native Bethesda (MD) that I don’t think it would disqualify anyone in uber-liberal California.

  3. Steven Covey created the self help book & it’s been a racket ever since.

  4. lol @ Francis
    Alain de Botton is a great philosopher who criticizes modern meritocracy and ridicules the Self Help Book by Antony Robbins:

    The whole talk is interesting, I recommend watching it.

    Alain has a great set of videos on different western philosophers. One video is very good for you pilots out there it’s called “The Wisdom of the Desert”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ad-L29tTnc

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