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After I wrote a long post about self-help, I listened to an interview with Mohsin Hamid, author of I had completely forgotten the beginning of that book: LOOK, UNLESS YOU’RE WRITING ONE, A SELF-HELP book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn’t yourself can help you, that someone being the author. This is true of the whole self-help genre. It’s true of how-to books, for example. And it’s true of personal improvement books too. […] None of the foregoing means self-help books are useless. On the contrary, they can be useful indeed. But it does mean that the idea of self in the land of self-help is a slippery one. And slippery can be good. Slippery can be pleasurable. Slippery can provide access to what would chafe if entered dry.

Self-Help as Oxymoron

austinkleon.com

Tate explained that James was able to achieve this magic through the use of the first-person narrator. Tate said that the first person is the most difficult form because the writer is locked inside the head of the narrator and can’t get out. He can’t say “meanwhile, back at the ranch” as a transition to another subject because he is imprisoned forever inside the narrator. But so is the reader! And that is the strength of the first-person narrative. The reader does not see that the governess is the villainess because what the governess sees is all the reader ever sees.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

According to neurophysiologist Mulder (2010): The human motor system can be seen as a permanent problem solver that functions within a continuous interaction with its environment. Living is learning but living is also changing.

The Athletic Skills Model

René Wormhoudt, Geert J.P. Savelsbergh, Jan Willem Teunissen, Keith Davids

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