Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules

1:00pm PDT - July 25th, 2020    robin williams - Mashable

The first self-described self-help book was published in 1859. The author's name, improbably, was Samuel Smiles; the title, even more improbably, was Self-Help. A distillation of lessons from the lives of famous people who had pulled themselves up by their bo…