self help is not a good genre

Self- help is not a good genre to read. If you are someone living a normal life without any external metrics (otherwise provided by self help books), you are able to grow and transform with time , slowly and steadily. but the issue with the introduction of a self help book into your life is that you consume so much more than you can genuinely change about yourself. The concepts that you read remain there in your mind, they create benchmarks and new standards for you to which you cannot reach in a short period of time, but because you now know such high standards , you feel the urgency to reach them, while failing to do so creates guilt that keeps you trapped in reading these self help books, one after another. It could be that the last one did not do its work in motivating you enough, or you failed to follow the exact detailed plans of another book, or you just moved places or you simply grew older and encountered a different situation that exposed some new "problem" in you that now…