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A cursory look at the comments on the twitter post you link to at the top (the one with the snarky comment about being happier for not reading these books) is rather revealing:

1. Most seem to think Marcus Aurelius, one of Rome’s best emperora and a famous stoic is some random self-help guy

2. Ditto for Daniel Kahneman, Nobel prize winning behavioral economist

3. Both many in the comments and your post obsess about gender, skin color and religion and implies a kind of fatalist assumption about these determining your likelihood of career success. Might help to point out that the CEO’s of Microsoft and Google are both of Indian heritage, the COO’s of Facebook and Space-X are both women

4. there’s a dismissive attitude towards the idea of someone making a conscious effort to learn something about how to interact with other people by reading books, just because there are a lot of cheap junk of that out there, just like for any other genre of books. Of course there are shitty self-help books (you’ve apparently written two of them. Good for you), but that doesn’t mean they’re all shit. There’s a lot of bad fiction books too, that’s just a typical pareto distribution

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sorry you're depressed, but I'm gonna keep reading books which inspire and help me. The world isn't inherently depressing and oppressive -- the world is what it is, and nobody said it would be fair. The unfairness of reality doesn't justify self-limitation. Depression and oppression are consequences of our philosophy. How do we change our philosophy? Books are an option...

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