All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.
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When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.
All of my books come from pain.
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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