Do you find books on motivation/self-help/self-improvement/leadership to be useful?

Curiosity is a good reason to read a book. Go for it!

I think useful is a hard thing to pin down for self-help and self-improvement type books. A lot of them contain heaps of terrible or at least very over-generalized (or specific advice derived from anecdote that's then over-generalized) advice. They're usually not useful in the case you read them uncritically and just accept everything stated without question.

However, providing you read critically and really think about the advice being given, they can be helpful in the sense you're talking about. Just seeing how others view the world differently, or can view the world differently, can be very interesting and insightful. Trying to understand what lead the author to that way of thinking can be even more interesting and insightful. Thinking about various situations where the advice given might fit and might not fit can also be useful, and in this sense the over-generalization of much of the advice given can actually be beneficial. After all, it's not just being able to see things a different way that's valuable, but also figuring out what different ways of seeing things are/might be better (or worse) than others in various respects and in various situations.

It depends on the book. I have been using self help books for years. Some of them come with exercises. Some books have made a great difference to my perspective by just reading them, others have literally changed aspects of my life when I do the exercises. Doing the exercises makes the book relevant and personal to you.

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