I started reading self-help books sometime during my JC years, quite a while before Robert Kiyosaki incited me to really take possession of my personal financial destiny.
The self-help fare in those days are divided along the lines of the personality ethic books by Dale Carnegie and the character ethic books championed by Stephen Covey. Along the way, Anthony Robbins became a huge motivational superstar and Neuro Linguistics Programming start to take off. I, too, was also swept up by the trend of going really far to read the books written by NLP founder Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
As the effort to wind-down on my summary on Tools for Titans, it might be useful to share some trends I noticed looking at some of the more contemporary trends in self help.
a) Buddha and Confucius - Rise of Eastern Philosophy
Maybe it's because of the economic rise of China, ......