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Self-Help: $11B in Seething Snake Oil (blangslet.com)
4 points by mazatlanio 4680 days ago
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Thanks for the direct link to relevant cites. Oh, you say they're somewhere in a book. Not great (that said, '59 seconds' is good).

Snake oil alarm: "the keys to productivity" - maybe there's proof that this approach can work, but "THE keys"? As in there's nothing else that can work? Come on.

Good luck.

Marketing self help by knocking the industry?
"As Richard Wiseman illustrates in his book “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot,” the problem is that the majority of self-help books actually promote exercises that “destroy motivation, damage relationships and reduce creativity; the opposite of everything [they] promise.”"