It can tell you you’re no good, that it’s all hopeless,” reads one entry, which recently went viral on Instagram. “But ...
If America's favorite pastimes are sex and baseball, self-help groups mightrun a close third. So it's a bit of a surprise to learn that such an American institution owes its existence to a Viennese ...
Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens Samuel Smiles’ 1859 book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct—an appropriately self-published work that birthed the modern genre.