Are all self help books useless?

You need to apply the lessons learned, not just consume it.

Self help books are pretty great, as they provide ideas on how to progress. Unfortunately they tend to present a shallow view of life and the difficulties of applying their lessons. The only one who can learn that is you by repeated trail and error. Simple knowledge will not change you.
Anyhow read Sam Harris waking up and stop being a slave to your mind.

>Carnegie
>Peterson
user I'm sorry but it is apparent that you have actually NOT read that many self-help books. If you had, then you would have given us a list, instead of naming two guys. It is also evident that you have not actually read Peterson. You have only watched a few Youtube videos summarizing his points.

Self-help books are not useless because they are designed to be read more frequently than other texts. The Tao Te Ching is, in essence, a self-help book, but it takes perhaps 30 seconds to read and understand most of its points.

Fucking loser mindset. I went from having 0 social skills to having a GF and a close group of friends.

Yeah, you figured it out. There is plenty of good advice out there but it is unlikely to exist in a useful manner in any self-help book you pick up. Also, most good models and approaches in life can't be effectively put into words. It's these unspoken ideas that are the most important.

No, they're all the same, and they're all shit, and the fact that they keep churning out the same five or six stale old ideas in new packaging, and that people keep buying it - and further, that self-help fags usually buy new self-help books over and over again - is all very strong indications that you are correct, the shit does not work.

Do cardio, lift weights, eat healthy, get enough sleep, interact with friends, practice things you want to be good at.
That's literally it. Very simple. After that it's basically just youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

>fuck books, all the answers are in my youtube friend simulators!
this board is really turning to shit

>that dfw expression
A semi-normie pretending to be an autist that is pretending to understand human emotion.
What level of sincerity is this?

Indeed it has, you are completely functionally illiterate and a massive retard - add the casual belligerence of a born loser with a chip on his shoulder, and voila, you belong on /r9k/ but shit up this place because you would prefer to fancy yourself an intellectual.
I posted the Shia video because it perfectly illustrates the absurdity and attendant frustration around the people who mindlessly consume self-help book after self-help book with the same overall message.

Yes, they are.