I have been an avid reader since a young age and around the time I turned 15 I discovered and quickly became scornful of self help books.<p>However, one self help book which I recently discovered and completely changed my life is &quot;Rewire your brain&quot; (ISBN: 0470487291) which offers explanations of many things from a neuroscience perspective and includes some practical anecdotes etc.<p>I would recommend it to essentially anyone, and all I could think while reading it was &quot;why is this book not mandatory reading for all humans?&quot;.<p>FWIW.