Ravi Gorowala asked Will Schwalbe:

The word candid comes to mind while reading about you. I find that you have steered clear of self help books and was wondering why you appear to have given a go by to a million titles that seem to have helped a large number of people?

Will Schwalbe I love self-help books and many have been incredibly important to me. In my new book, there's a chapter about one: LATERAL THINKING by Edward de Bono. And some of the other books I write about could be considered self-help books. I also wrote about a few in my last book. But you are right that I don't give them as much emphasis and that's really because I think it's usually clear what a particular self-help book promises to do for you -- it's usually in the title or subtitle. I think in many ways it's more interesting for me to write about the ways that poetry, or fiction, or other kinds of nonfiction have helped me when I needed help most.

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