Gailin: Self-help is inherently kind of problematic. It's taking advice from the second man in the room like so i've got these massive blind spots how am i gonna even know? He says it's easy to help other people because i can look at the skin and go that oh did obviously you've got an anger problem or a prejudice against ligrarians. But for some reason it's really hard because we're blind we're blind spots, he adds.
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and Stoicism, self-help and modern psychology.
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