Self Help Books

My opinion on self-help books is that they can be a useful material for certain people. I don't think that all people benefit from self-help books only because I think in order to quite something such as smoking or loose weight some individuals need more than a book telling them what to do in order to accomplish their goal. It is easy to read about diets and how to eat right and what exercises do what, but the words on the page may not actually convince the reader to eat differently or exercise. An example is with Edwin in Happiness, he read the part in the manuscript about how to quite smoking and he did what it told him to do and he was disgusted by holding the cigarette water in his mouth but once he spit the water out and rinsed his mouth he was off to find more cigarettes.

On the other hand some people may benefit from what Edwin and done and they may be totally grossed out and never smoke again. The same goes for someone trying to loose weight and be healthy, just by reading about what foods to eat and what exercises they need to do they are able to change their eating habits and exercise on a regular basis resulting in them accomplishing their goal of loosing weight and leading a healthier lifestyle. An example is the character Jenni in Happiness, she is able to do new exercises and change her life based upon things she has read. Jenni is always reading magazines to find out the latest and greatest exercises and ways to change the furniture in the house in order to create positive energy. I think that there are many people out there like Jenni that are able to change the way they do things from what the read or hear from others.