Why you shouldn’t be Reading Self-Help Books?
Following are a few reasons that advocate why reading self-help books are an absolute waste of time and might even have unpleasant repercussions. Take a look:
#1. Self-Help Books Induce Stress
The books that are designed to pull you out of depression are actually pushing you towards it. The University of Montreal recently did a test on 30 individuals who were tasked with reading different types of self-help books. After they had all completed the books, researchers found out that all the 30 people were more receptive of succumbing to stressful conditions. Apart from that, they also found an increased concentration of Cortisol, which is a stress-inducing hormone in humans!
Self-help books are designed in a way that they clog the parts of your brain that are responsible for your emotional intelligence. As a result, you tend to admire every word that is written in the book. While your brain is tricked into believing that things will get better if you keep on reading, the real world scenario is totally opposite.
#2. Self-Help Books Want You To Be Someone You’re Not
“Become a person who looks at things in a particular way,” “smile even when you don’t want to,” these are some lines that you’ll find in almost any self-help book. But, ask yourself, do you want to smile in all situations? Do you always feel like looking at everything positively? The likely answers to these questions are most probably a no. That tells us what these books trick us into. They try to play with your psychology, asking you to believe in a world that doesn’t exist. For the utopian setting, these books might have been great tools, but in the realms of reality, these books are a far cry from providing self-help.
Besides, the more you delve into these books, the more you believe in the illusion of reality. You try to mend yourself according to the world that is nothing but a phantasm of an ideal world. The way these books urge to help you is by becoming a different person altogether. And that is when; the true purpose of ‘self-help’ is defeated.
#3. Self-Help Books Talk In Clichés
Try reading a self-help book when you’re not under stress. And you would be surprised to find a number of generic things written in the book. Most self-help books talk in clichés. There is nothing in it that you have not heard or known previously. We’re sure that whenever you’re in a problem, looking up the sky and seeing how big the world is, makes you feel how small your problem is, doesn’t it? Do you now understand how unspecific these books are? How does knowing the vastness of the world ever going to help you pay your bills?
You get the point. Self-Help books don’t offer a new perspective to you. They just mold the same things in ways that they appear different and new to you.
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