Brillyant comments on Is it worth your time to read a lot of self help and how to books? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Brillyant 28 October 2013 09:45:02PM 1 point [-]

Every guru I clicked on (the ones I have heard of) had a "bad" rating.

Comment author: gwern 28 October 2013 10:14:01PM 4 points [-]

/reads a few ratings

Looks like they are functioning as designed.

Comment author: Nornagest 28 October 2013 10:19:35PM *  3 points [-]

Most of them are rated "bad": the only "good" ratings I recall are Cudney, Dunman, and Gilbaugh. There's a somewhat higher number of "meh" ratings, but still a minority.

I'm perfectly willing to believe this given my own exposure to the self-help field, though. It really is mostly terrible.