Self-Help When Self-Help Doesn’t Work Anymore

How to Sell Yourself on Positive Change: Reviewing Ray Edwards’s ‘Read This or Die!’

How do you do the stuff you know you should do but don’t want to do? And what about stopping the stuff you want to do but know you shouldn’t?

There’s an amusing scene in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that plays with these questions. Tom, as Mark Twain tells us, joins a temperance club. “He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long a…