I repeat, you do NOT need self-help books. You need to get lost in immortal works of fiction. You need to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' and slowly realize that each brother lives inside your own heart. You need to witness how each of them wrestles with passion and hatred and guilt. You need to wrestle with faith and doubt, love and resentment, freedom and duty. Then you must come to terms with the tension of these within you — with your own contradictions and shortcomings. Great fiction will expand your capacity to see the world in its full complexity. You'll see that truth is often found not in the extremes, but in the tension between the extremes. The questions that truly matter will not be solved by "self-help" or productivity hacks. These questions can never be finally "solved" by your own force of will or rational understanding. Great fiction will help you battle for your soul.