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When most people talk about a book changing their life, they’re talking about a book they read — a book that changed their perspective or way of thinking. But for many authors, writing a book can be ...

You can access many psychology self-help books that top experts write. However, can you benefit from reading about how to combat anxiety, depression, and other psychological conditions? For example, ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

Any book can spur us toward self-improvement. So can a song, a poem or a movie scene. And so we will change. We will resolve that with the turn of a calendar page we will make a new start, form a ...

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