Word: self-help
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...likewise choose an identity. But instead of striking a heroic pose, he portrays himself as a hapless failure, someone who is always wishing to do something?hop a freight train, ask a woman out, adopt a child in Goa?but never follows through. "I have an idea for a self-help book," he tells an alluring beauty on the beach, "Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it." To which she responds, "But you can't be bothered to write it, right...
Then she nearly turned into a self-help guru, telling the women in her audience that they too can speak with an honest voice, without fear of what the rest of the world will think...
...Bonham Carter star in this 1999 film based on the best-selling novel by Chuck Palahniuk that acts as a modern-day morality tale warning of the decay of society. It tells of one man’s (Norton) life full of single serving dinners, cheap furniture catalogs and self-help meetings for illnesses he doesn’t have. He finds salvation in his new friend Tyler Durden (Pitt) and the founding of a fight club that soon spins out of control. The screening is free, and popcorn and soda will be served. Thursday, April...
...Bill W., as Alcoholics Anonymous members know them, promised to keep each other sober, following Bill W.'s strategy: a simple set of principles--later refined into 12 steps--that would become the foundation of America's self-help culture. Alcoholics, he said, must admit they are powerless over their addiction. They must make amends to all those they have harmed. And they must submit to God--however they define the deity...
...right. But is her advice solid? In her new book, she gives helpful guidance for those who have been bruised by the rocky economy, which is to say everyone. Her five laws (e.g., Look at What You Have, Not at What You Had), written in the cozy language of self-help books, will aid those intimidated by their finances. While she delivers a few dictates (no variable annuities; no whole- , universal-or variable-life insurance policies), much of her advice depends on squishier concepts like being honest with yourself. "What keeps you from doing that which you know you should...