Tamir argues that people obsessed with self-awareness books, courses and seminars can be more inauthentic than everyone else, because each one adds another veneer and another layer of masquerade while projecting authenticity. Five books lead to fifty books, a course and five years with a monk in India: 'the appearance of enlightenment' without resolve in the real world.
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For a while I would be obsessed with self-help books and this and that. And I realized the more self-help books I read, the less of a personality I had.
All they end up doing is adding one veneer to the next veneer, adding one layer of masquerading to the next layer of masquerading.