Core Ideas from 50 Self-Help Classics

In some fields, it's worth focusing on the new. For example, we buy a smartphone rather than a flip phone.

But in self-help, things don't change as rapidly. People are people. And so today's latest and greatest is often tomorrow's abandoned fad.

So it makes sense to note self-help ideas have stood the test of time. To that end, PsychCentral.com has selected "50 Self-Help Classics." There, they are unannotated. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, for each, I very briefly state on or two of its recommendations.