Say someone you knew when you were a teenager had, upon growing up, published a self-help book for teenagers. Would you read it? Or more accurately, how long would you be able to hold out before trying to obtain a copy to discover if the author had indeed profited from your collective misery?
I wish I could say I made this one up to determine your collective mettle and/or temperature, but it's true. I have actually known about this book for a couple of years, sort of pushing it further and further back into my mind (but it keeps coming back!). I was shocked first because I don't know many people who have published books, period, and second, this person sort of fell off my radar and to have the name turn up much later was pretty odd.
Normally I'd be curious to death, but revisiting those years? In a self-help book? Eh.
2 days ago
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I don't know if this is the case, but it seems more than likely that the author in question has a degree or sort of accolades that make him/her a specialist in the field of teenage self-help, not just personal experience?
It looks like he consulted with experts but wrote it from the "average person" perspective. Does that change anything?
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