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Self Help Books Are Full of Platitudes and Cliches

Self improvement is pretty much rampant with the soldier mindset like self help books for full of exactly the kind of platitudes and cliches that you were talking about here. Sometimes it's implicit like, like, like a self help book will give advice that it just seems really overconfident to me. And then there's also an explicit soldier mindset where they often say you should believe things that are false in order to help you succeed. I think this is a very common phenomenon that I think is misguided.

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