I frequently hear people saying that self-help books are too long but I don't think that's really true. Changing deep patterns about how to deal with situations is seldomly made by reading a short summary of a position.
Self-help authors keep writing longer books, self-help customers keep learning how to read faster or switch to reading summaries on third-party websites...
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