Gummies and Self Help - The most impactful Open Source

Open Source is one of my favorite modern day marvels.  From Cragislist to Mozilla making resources like source code publicly available is the essence of progress in my mind. June 8 I had planned to attend the TED X Pacific Talk with the following theme: Bold, Provocative Ideas that Will Change the World. Due to the ICE Raids in Los Angeles and the subsequent presence of the National Guard I walked back my cross city travel and decided to have a fun day in.  

Cowardly?  Maybe, but in order to cope with the personal shame of hiding from these current events I am writing a blog about one of my favorite literary genres: Self-help.  This type of writing which is built to allow individuals with a sense of self and personhood the chance to overcome their fatal flows through self intervention is a type of early open source.  The code for the human psyche is by far the most elegant and robust!

I am going to write a series of blogs pairing different gummies with the top 50 Self-Help Books.  Afterward I will share my top 12 Psychology Books recommendations. Personally depths psychology and self actualization are topics I hope to encourage into the Self Help genre.

For now I will be using the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner, 50 Self Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden and my personal and vast knowledge of gummies - I will pair each title with the most complimentary edible!  Here is partial list of titles (removing the rankings to encourage you in clicking through to actual website above if you are more interested in the original published list of 50).  Here are a few of the titles in no particular order:

• David D Burns The New Mood Therapy (1980)
• Marcus Aurelius Meditations (2nd Century) 
• The Bhagavad-Gita 
• The Bible
  
• Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)
• William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980)
• David Brooks The Road to Character (2015)
• Brené Brown Daring Greatly (2012) 
  
• Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth (1988) 
  
• Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) 
• Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994) 
• Clayton Christensen How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012)
  
• Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1991)
  
• The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings) 
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (1841) 
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With The Wolves (1996) 
• Viktor Frankl Man's Search For Meaning (1959) 
• Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (1790) 
• Shakti Gawain Creative Visualization (1982) 

My read to share is: How to Win Friends and Influence People. This was published the year my father was born, no wonder I feel magnetically drawn to the strange 20th century wisdom embedded in these pages. Personally, I adore Dale Carnegie's Title.  It's quitnessentially Depression Era America.  There's an absolute perfect mix of schlocky salesmanship with genuine philanthropy.  It's funny because my father was a philanthropist for his favorite causes however he had no interest in showing humanitarian love for his children.  Perhaps he was simply wired that way,  It's too painful honestly to ponder.  Back to the self help!

I would recommend using Green Roads Rise and Shine Gummies while reading this Self Help Book.  In next weeks blog I will go into a bit more detail on exactly why this very mild and fruity gummy is totally perfect for the folksy killer advice that is offered in Carnegies signature tomb of wisdom.  

My favorite part of this Self Help is not the self motivational tone.  In fact there's a very    specific tender of insight that has always stayed with me although I haven't read the book for years.  

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