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Yeah, so I've spent thousands of dollars and thousands of hours on self-help books, and I'm about to save you from making the same mistake as me. Unfortunately, these books are made for mass consumption. They're easy to process, they're easy to sell, and they just hand you the answers. But every idea inside of these books were pulled from these.

You have been reading the copy, but these are the source. So take Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and compare it to this. In this book, you get the answers, you highlight them, you study them, but in two months, you forget it all. In this book, you're not just reading about human nature, but you are living inside of it. You are flooded with questions about morality,

the weight of your choices, the weight of your own mind. And I promise you, when you finish this book, you are not going to look at the world in the same way. When is the last time a self-help book has ever done that for you? Aristotle called this phenomenon catharsis, which means by living

through a character's guilt and fear, you actually process those emotions as yourself. So essentially, self-help books tell you about life, but the classics make you live through it. And that's the part that you actually remember. That's the part that changes your life. Comment classic, and I'll send you my full list of classics.