Are your shelves full of self-help books?
Self-help books sell millions of copies around the world each year. Can you improve yourself by reading a book? Alice and Abdu have been busily reading and researching.
This week's question:
Which of these are real titles of self-help books?
a) Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
b) 5 simple steps to emotional healing
c) How to lose friends and alienate people
Listen out for the answer in the programme.
Listen
Self-help books
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Vocabulary from the programme
- self-improvement
make yourself or an aspect of yourself better without assistance from others
- self-help
solving your problems without having to ask others for assistance
- alienate
isolate a person from familiar people and places; make a person feel he or she is not part of a group
- challenges
difficulties or problems
- low-point
the most difficult time in a person's life
- junkies
addicts - this is a slang phrase usually applied to people addicted to illegal drugs
- addict
someone with a physical and emotional need to consume something
- coaching
training to perform or work better
- wildly optimistic
positive beyond what might seem realistic
- grievance
a feeling you have a right to be annoyed because something unfair happened and you did not get what you deserved
- self-esteem
feeling of being happy with your own personality and abilities
- the key
most important thing
