self-help

Palmer is trying to share more of that story with her new book, a memoir/self-help hybrid, “Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative.”

I devour a lot of self-help and self-improvement books, and many preach about the dangers of what happens when you give up.

But he eventually started attending self-help groups, recovery meetings and anger management classes.

"Martin has never been the most poetically complex of lyricists," added The Telegraph's Neil McCormick, but "does the world really need" songs that sound "like Instagram self-help slogans?"

Orison Swett Marden, a self-help author and editor of Success magazine, and Elbert Hubbard, the flamboyant “Sage of East Aurora,” were two of the many popular writers to address the subject.