Mental Health Bible

If you’ve ever struggled with overwhelming feelings of distress or worry or worse in social situations, you could very well have social anxiety. This book details exactly what social anxiety is and invites readers to explore the symptoms and potential causes, and more importantly, lays out a solid plan to help you beat the anxiety and its accompanying symptoms for good.

Everyone has secrets, and everyone is living a double life to some degree. The world is held up by lies; if everyone's secrets were to all be revealed tomorrow morning, civilization might collapse. To ascend the social hierarchies and achieve great power, you need to optimize and strategize rather than slogging and "working hard" every day of your life. This is counterproductive since it does not guarantee any beneficial results in the end. Nobody can succeed by following rules in the first place.

Is it more difficult to be a man or a woman? Some say men, some say women. The small physical size and childbearing responsibilities of women makes me inclined to say that they received the short straw on the difficulties in life. But when you compare what they have to do in life relative to men, it tilts the scales in favor of women. The fundamental difference between men and women is that men have to prove their worth, whereas women don’t. As a man, your success literally defines you.

Scientific evidence indisputably shows that your happiness depends primarily on how you manage your emotions. You usually think that intelligence is just logic skills, the ability to find connections. But intelligence is not only this: There is a vital emotional component, even in the most rational functions of thought, that influence your behavior and relationship with others.