Philosophy is better than self-help

when I tell people that I studied

philosophy they often tend to imagine it

as people in cardigans debating the most

ridiculous things and to be fair there

was quite a lot of that philosophy can

be quite esoteric that in itself is not

a bad thing a lot of people enjoy doing

philosophy in the same way they might

enjoy doing a soduku but philosophy is

not always like this the biggest way in

which philosophy infuses our everyday is

through self-help a lot of modern

self-help books have diluted philosophy

and they've made it accessible and

applicable to Modern Life Bor I would

argue is if you go back to those

original philosophical texts you'll

actually find a depth that you lack in a

lot of modern self-held books if I had

to choose three philosophy books which

act as self-help I would first choose

Aristotle's nikom mckian ethics because

the entire book is to discuss what is a

good and happy life Michelle deon's

essays he discusses life with such

honesty and such intellectual Vigor and

the da de Jing by Lau because in the

mysticism we can find truth within

ourselves