That’s asserting the thing that the original question asked to examine: how do we know that this is a genuinely useful manual, rather than something that reads like the manual and makes you think “gosh, this is the manual!” but following it doesn’t actually get you anywhere much? What would the world look like if it was? What would the world look like if it wasn’t?
Note that there are plenty of books (particularly in the self-help field) that have been selected by the market for looking like the manual to life, at the expense of actually being the manual to life. This whole thread is about reading something and going “that’s brilliant!” but actually it doesn’t do much good.
That’s asserting the thing that the original question asked to examine: how do we know that this is a genuinely useful manual, rather than something that reads like the manual and makes you think “gosh, this is the manual!” but following it doesn’t actually get you anywhere much? What would the world look like if it was? What would the world look like if it wasn’t?
Note that there are plenty of books (particularly in the self-help field) that have been selected by the market for looking like the manual to life, at the expense of actually being the manual to life. This whole thread is about reading something and going “that’s brilliant!” but actually it doesn’t do much good.