From age nine to age fifteen, I read a lot of self-development, and I still do in a sense but not your "typical" self-development... I was thinking about writing this and saying it's not worth it, but believe it or not, I do think there a few general concepts that are great to be learned, but it takes time and a lot of reading, and I really think the "sum" of self-development is essentially giving up, and to stop reading self-development.

Reading everything from Tony Robbins, Maxwell Maltz, Richard Bandler, Albert Ellis, NLP, hypnosis, Eckheart Tolle, to Stephen Covey and much, much more, is actually how I got to this idea. It's all really just about self-acceptance, and that is, to give up. To give up the judging of yourself, give up self-consciousness and just be. It goes from everything to questioning ones sexuality (haha) to just giving up and not caring, to trying to make plans to be a "success" to not giving a shit, and by that I mean plan on being the greatest you, but don't care about any attachment to any goal. Also in terms of other people, it's all about just, I know the cliche, being yourself...and I know all the PUA's will be like "no wai wtf", but basically the sum of inner game is ultimate self-acceptance, look it up.

That's it, my distilled knowledge of self-dev.

Tl;Dr Give up. Don't care.

read the tao of pooh

Invading a lonely thread.

I really think the "sum" of self-development is essentially giving up, and to stop reading self-development.

I came here ready to flame some "self-help" noob but I read this and laughed for like five minutes. I think I agree.

ps. the rest is pretty depressing but I suppose it's true

I think I can forgive myself for forgiving you man, so I forgive you then.