Why Did I Stop Reading Self-Help Books And Why You Should Too

Renuka Gavrani
8 min readMar 22, 2022

I fell in love with books after reading a beautiful self-help book, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. It is after reading my first self-help book, I realized the world of possibilities and opportunities is wide open to me. In fact, standing true by its name, self-help books really helped me to ‘HELP MYSELF’.

After reading for almost 2 years, I have decided to stop reading self-help books and today, I will share why I decided that and why you should also stop reading a typical self-help book.

Why You Should Stop Reading SELF-HELP Books:

I don’t know what data says but my observation says that 90% of people start reading self-help books after reading the benefits of self-help books. People either hear from their favorite book blogger, influencer, author or any other successful people how one self-help book turned their life upside down and in the greed of gaining similar results, they start reading books.

Although, be it fiction or nonfiction, both the books have similar kinds of benefits yet people have maintained an illusion that fiction books are just stories that wouldn’t take you anywhere. This is yet another reason why people shift to self-help books.

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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