Most Common Advice in Self-Help Material

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If you get advice from, say, Bear Grylls, it’s probably valuable advice. But if you get the same advice from Bear Grylls, the Dalaï Lama, Bill Gates and 6 dead philosophers, it has to be some important piece of wisdom.

Over years of self-help material consumption, I’ve noticed some advice keeps on being repeated in various forms by various people. I assume there is value in those messages and…