as George Carlin succinctly put it, about as long ago as many of today’s self-help gurus have been alive, “if you’re looking for self-help, why would you go read a book written by somebody else…”

and, as he paraphrased himself later as only he can …

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”