Just because someone read a lot of self-help books and managed to improve themselves in some way doesn’t mean the self-help books should be recommended to everyone.
It’s not just that he read a lot of self-help books and managed to improve himself—it’s that he seems to have come out of the experience with a knack for reading up on other “how to”s and applying that information. E.g. he once mentioned reading up on nonprofit management when he took over running MIRI, and seems to be doing well there, in spite of having come in from a completely different field.
Just because someone read a lot of self-help books and managed to improve themselves in some way doesn’t mean the self-help books should be recommended to everyone.
It’s not just that he read a lot of self-help books and managed to improve himself—it’s that he seems to have come out of the experience with a knack for reading up on other “how to”s and applying that information. E.g. he once mentioned reading up on nonprofit management when he took over running MIRI, and seems to be doing well there, in spite of having come in from a completely different field.
compared to what?