Self-help style books, quotes, and way of life is a high-wire act of annoyance. If you don’t play off the concepts as something unimportant and completely up to the other person whether they accept or reject, it’s quite often one of the most annoying things to deal with.
Self-help charlatans who “know it all” might be the most irritating form of person I’ve ever interacted with. Just shut up, please.
That being said, I have started reading some of my older blog posts and I definitely come across as a self-help douche.
It’s low-hanging fruit to quickly bang out a blog post on working harder or being more kind or pursuing the truth above all else, etc… so I’ll work on writing about some not-so-low-hanging stuff in my future posts.
Self-help charlatans are annoying and I wouldn’t want to read them, so why would you?