UsedWigs » Inner Child http://usedwigs.com Quality Workday Distractions Wed, 23 May 2012 19:08:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Prepare for "The 1990s Redux" with These Self-Help Books http://usedwigs.com/prepare-for-the-1990s-redux-with-these-self-help-books/ http://usedwigs.com/prepare-for-the-1990s-redux-with-these-self-help-books/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:24:27 +0000 SM Shrake http://www.usedwigs.com/prepare-for-the-1990s-redux-with-these-self-help-books/ I recently went down to my storage unit and got out a box labeled “1990s Memories” to get myself prepared to go on a trip back to the ’90s, and I found this list I wrote back then called “Self-Help Books Someone Should Write.” Remember self-help? Remember the backlash against it? I must’ve written this [...]]]>

I recently went down to my storage unit and got out a box labeled “1990s Memories” to get myself prepared to go on a trip back to the ’90s, and I found this list I wrote back then called “Self-Help Books Someone Should Write.” Remember self-help?

Remember the backlash against it? I must’ve written this during the backlash. After I had discovered and befriended my inner child, who ended up being a total asshole.

There were a lot of projected titles in the list, but still not enough, so I added some. So before the ’00s become the ’90s again and all lines between past and present are irrevocably blurred, see if you can guess which ones are new.

Communication

  • “First Off, I’m Crazy”: How to Talk to New People You Meet
  • Controlling Others for Dummies
  • Daily Altercations
  • How to Gain Stalkers by Being Nice to People
  • Party Lies: 100 Elaborate Whoppers to Tell People When You’re Drunk

Personal Growth

  • The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Persuading Yourself to Get Out of Bed in the Afternoon
  • Smile-Free… for Life!
  • Choose the Right Personality for Every Occasion
  • Find Your “True” Age (Hint: Subtract Your Birth Year from This Year)

Friends and Family Relationships

  • Friendbusters
  • Dare to De-Friend
  • 100 Great Grudges and How to Hold Them… for Life!
  • Speak When Spoken To: A Stern Warning to Children in the New Millennium
  • What to Do When Your Family Is Stupid Looking

Love and Romance

  • Date-Free Weekend Nights… for Life!
  • Fall in Love… with Rejection!
  • Fall in Love… with Rejection… Again!

Coping Skills

  • It’s Your Own Fault You’re Alive
  • The “Accidental” Overdose Handbook
  • Real Men Suffer in Silence
  • When Everyone You Love or Even Like Is Dead: A Guide to Coping with Old Age

General/Miscellaneous

  • The Mood-a-Minute Guide
  • The Empathy Myth: How Compassion Is Poisoning Our Culture
  • Put Your OCD to Work for the Environment
  • Show Me the Substance and I’ll Abuse It: One Man’s Inspiring Tale of Addiction
  • “Carry My Baggage for Me”: Embracing Others’ Mental Problems
  • Fun Is Dead

Read more SM SHRAKE at You Wanna Know What? and The Shrake-tionary.

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