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Do Self Help Books help

I graduated from IIT Madras in 2008. I was from a good branch in IIT and had decent enough grades to get shortlisted in many companies. But I was getting rejected company after company. I landed one satisfactory job in field of my interest but I lost out on many opportunities of a lifetime.  In hindsight it does not matter at all.                          But when  joining date of my company got extended.  I used to get many feeling of self doubt. In those i got my hands upon the first self book I ever read. I read the "7 habits of highly effective people" from Stephen Covey.                                              Reading your first self help book can feel like a revelation. Now you have a magic solution to all problems in your life. You are learning from experience of so much experie...