Abstract
Are self-help movements just modern snake oil? In this work philosophical short story fiction, Graham is a self-help junkie, spending $1,000’s per year to attend seminars and buy various self-help books. His motivation peaks and he decides to move to Los Angeles to be a screenwriter. His money quickly runs out, his health declines, and he is forced to return home in shame as a failure. He blames the self-help gurus that told him to pursue his dream and believes they are charlatans selling fake dreams. He attends yet another self-help guru’s event, this time to try and convince those attending the whole thing is a farce. Instead, he meets the guru in the hotel bar who tells him he has already moved past self-help, and he needs to create his own path. He does, and creates a form of yoga called Maneuverism. His program quickly grows into a worldwide phenomenon, until at his height, he walks away from it all, telling his follows to find their own path.
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