Personality Development Books: A marketing gimmick

Personality development books sell like hot cakes on the stands of any book store. I’m contemplating if I should pity their innocence, or loathe their ignorance - the ultra-optimists who buy these books! The naive people believe that they are eternally inspired and could shed pearls of wisdom on reading these books. Well, screw them all!

These books are such awful pieces of writing in farce, that I’m disgusted with the ideas promoted by them. They bank on the psychology of the emotionally vulnerable and the mentally susceptible to fatten their bank balances and public image. They spread this absurd idea about External Motivation. For God’s sake how can you be permanently enlightened by means that are alien to your mind. Motivation has to be necessarily internal and self driven; it is the quality of the self sufficient individual. Sustained levels of zeal and consistency in focus could be achieved only by the Self.

Tell me if I’m not right; and I raise this argument out of my own experience. Let say you finish reading such a blasphemous book today, you would be fully charged and pumped up the next day - this I totally agree. But two weeks down, are your energy levels still the same? One month down, are you not back to your own sweet self? Has the book made any change in you at all, in even the short run? This would probably happen to 99% of the bourgeoisie who read them. Well if you are among the other lucky microscopic minority, Kudos! If you do not agree with me, please tell me - would you be reading this sort of ludicrous parody every month till you die? Or do you suppose that you would get used to being efficient by prolonged reading of such mockery?

My point here is not to stress that these books are absolutely useless, but that they only help a very few. The masses are hardly effected. Some authors even go to the extent of twining their ridiculous views with spirituality. Perhaps they should file a patent for those theories If its the moral support that you want please be faithful to your religion. You could as well read the Bible, Koran or the Bhagavad Gita. Whatever little sense that our grotesque autors make - it would always be a minor subset of these materpieces!