I spend a decent amount of time at bookstores, and I’ve noticed something.
The adults browsing the fiction section fall into two distinct camps: college students reaching for Penguin paperbacks, and seventy-year-old professors emeriti in tweed jackets. Meanwhile, the self-help aisle is packed with everyone else, thirty-somethings in business casual leafing through "Atomic Habits" and "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-stories-make-you-smarter-than-self-help-books