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My Three Biggest Problems With Self-Help
In the past four years, I’ve gone from a no-name blogger to an author, coach, and top online writer earning more money than I’d ever made behind a corporate job desk.
My main topic? Self-help.
I’ve spent a lot of time on self-help, both using it in my life and teaching others what I’ve learned. I’ve read countless books, bought online courses, hired coaches, and created a ton of self-help products that thankfully, have gotten great reviews from my customers.
But there are lot of rampant problems with self-help, and not everyone feels the same way about the industry.
I’ve met countless cynics who claim self-help is total B.S. They claim it’s run by rich white gurus who take advantage of people by promising empty solutions that don’t really help anyone. Others claim self-help doesn’t even work, it’s just a scam to take your money.
True, there have been countless self-help “gurus” who were really just scammers and fakers selling worthless junk that have made millions of dollars taking advantage of their customers. Self-help has built a lot of resentment and frustration, much of it rightly so.
As a successful self-help writer for the last four years, here are my three biggest problems with the industry.
