“101 Essays That Will Change Your Life” is the bestselling guide of the year. However, many of the findings in it are not just trivial, everyday wisdom, but simply wrong.
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Juliana Liebert
In the first episode of the British comedy series “Black Books”, Manny, one of the three main characters, swallows a self-help book. Admittedly, a very small self-help book – the “Little Book Of Calm”. Manny buys it because his job is stressful and accidentally swallows it. At first you think he’s going to die from it, but it dissolves in him and he turns into a Jesus-like figure of light who walks around administering advice to people. To a woman in labor screaming in pain, he advises with deeply enlightened composure: “If you’re feeling pressure, do something else. Roll up your sleeves or eat an orange.” The woman is not happy. At the very least, since this article is written in German, she is addressed using the formal address. The American author Brianna Wiest, born in 1992, is not so lucky.