WHY BUY THE BOOK FOR FIVE BULLET POINTS?\u200b<\/p>\n
It is hard to extrapolate from one man\u2019s oeuvre. But Ferriss also cites figures from Publisher\u2019s Weekly showing a wider trend of self-help book sales in the first quarter experiencing a drop of 26.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2025. Mark Manson, the author of The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F***, declared last year that \u201cself-help\u2019s kind of cooked\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pippa Wright, publishing director at Penguin Life, has a word of caution: Non-fiction \u201chas always been boom and bust. At the point it goes up, everyone says, \u2018No one is interested in fiction, they want answers.\u2019 And then romantasy goes up and everyone wants escapism\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to NielsenIQ BookData for the United Kingdom, while sales have declined from their 2022 peak, they remain significantly higher than in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u200bWright thinks one kind of self-help has \u201cprobably gone\u201d: The \u201cprescriptive book with five bullet points, with information that is summarised very easily … If it can be summarised in a paragraph, then why buy the book?\u201d She says readers weigh these things up when deciding what to buy, and are looking for cutting-edge research, expertise or strong writing.<\/p>\n
\u200bSome point to a wider decline in self-improvement, as witnessed by the recent backlash to Diary Of A CEO podcaster Steven Bartlett\u2019s declaration that a few glasses of wine \u201cruined three days of [his] life\u201d because \u201cI got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day ….\u2009Then I podcasted worse, and I didn\u2019t go to the gym the day after.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHY BUY THE BOOK FOR FIVE BULLET POINTS?\u200b It is hard to extrapolate from one man\u2019s oeuvre. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,25,580,223,157,33163],"class_list":["post-82364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-generative-ai","tag-openai","tag-self-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}