How to win friends, make tons of money, have a great sex life, manage stress, and so on
I'm toying with the idea of writing a book on how to win friends, make tons of money, have a great sex life, manage stress, look young and so on. Not because I know a great deal about these subjects and want to share it with the world, but because I suspect that anything written on these topics will find enough readers to make me a millionaire. I know there are a gazillion such books in the market already but my book will cover all these topics together. That way I can target multiple segments with one offering. Fifteen year ago I worked for a scooter manufacturing company. One poster of this famous scooter had this line at the bottom of a hard to believe graphic: "Who wouldn't want a pig that gives wool, lays egg & provides milk." I now see the point.
I've read a couple of such books myself, not completely but most often beyond page 7. In my college years I've read scores of 'self help' books. They were a different class of reading material, a rare commodity and 7-8 pages is all that one could afford to read in the time allotted. If you ever stayed in a hostel then you know what I'm talking about.
Now those were serious self help books. Their stated purpose was to heighten your pleasure and elevate your mood (among other things)and they were effective. The results were nearly instantaneous and hence easily verifiable.
I can understand the difficulty in writing on objective topics such 'How to make Trifle Pudding' and so on. But a book on 'How to win friends.......' should be a cake walk as long as you know how to read people and play with words.
To be continued......
I've read a couple of such books myself, not completely but most often beyond page 7. In my college years I've read scores of 'self help' books. They were a different class of reading material, a rare commodity and 7-8 pages is all that one could afford to read in the time allotted. If you ever stayed in a hostel then you know what I'm talking about.
Now those were serious self help books. Their stated purpose was to heighten your pleasure and elevate your mood (among other things)and they were effective. The results were nearly instantaneous and hence easily verifiable.
I can understand the difficulty in writing on objective topics such 'How to make Trifle Pudding' and so on. But a book on 'How to win friends.......' should be a cake walk as long as you know how to read people and play with words.
To be continued......

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