Self-help books aren’t always my cup of tea, but that does not mean they’re worthless or unhelpful. It really depends on the content inside a self-help book, and what its overall objective and guidance pertains to.
Kŭn-hu Yi’s If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy stands out because it appears to blend the typical self-help topics of happiness and long living together, whilst actually being written by a man who has lived a long life. I feel anyone can take better life advice from a (currently) eighty-nine-year-old man than the typical 30-45 year olds that clatter out most self-help books.
Not to mention, this book seems to carry a good air of self-awareness and will likely have that quirky east-Asian charm — as well as glibness — that is characteristic of authors from regions like Japan, or in Kŭn-hu Yi’s case, Korea.
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