50 Self-Help Classics 2nd Edition: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on happiness and fulfilment (50 Classics)
By Tom Butler-Bowdon

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” William James 

No matter how adverse the situation, we always have room to determine what it will mean to us, a lesson given us in two books covered here, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy. To consciously decide what we will think, not allowing genes or environment or fate to determine our path—this is the essence of self-help.

Whether you want to change the world or just change yoursel...