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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

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• FREE -- Living Forward -- M Hyatt, et al/ M Hyatt, et al --> 4.3 hrs --> leadership

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• 2 Chairs -- Bob Beaudine/ Bob Beaudine --> 3.5 hrs
  
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• The Leap -- Robert Dickie III/ John McLain --> 5.7 hrs

I'm at a loss to explain the prevalence of self-development books. When I go through a more-or-less random list of books, it seems that there is about one such book for every ten books! That is probably an overstatement, but I doubt that it is by much.

Have titles that have been previously published on the subject not accomplished the goal of a person getting his or her ducks in a row, so an author feels that he/she must create one that does? Have people with self-developmental needs read one or more of the previous books, but they've gotten no help from them because they haven't put into practice what the previous books said to do? So they decide that the problem is that the previous books were just no good, and so they buy another one that looks promising?

I know, this isn't the thread to get into a discussion about it; I guess that I'm just wondering out loud. But, it's more than that--these self-development titles genuinely get in the way when I'm browsing through the non-fiction markdown lists, whether it be of ebooks or audiobooks. There are too blooming many of them!