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Invencible: Ultimate Collection, Volumen 1

by Robert Kirkman

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Jan 15, 2026 11:55PM

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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Myth of Self-esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever (Psychology)

by Albert Ellis

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Cohl said: " If I could point towards a single book that I could confidently say has changed my life, it would be “The Myth of Self Esteem” by Albert Ellis. It’s a breath of fresh air in a world where self-help books preach self-esteem which is largely dependent If I could point towards a single book that I could confidently say has changed my life, it would be “The Myth of Self Esteem” by Albert Ellis. It’s a breath of fresh air in a world where self-help books preach self-esteem which is largely dependent on our success.
I initially started with a previous book of his based on a recommendation in order to help me treat my OCD. My OCD used to be so severe that I would often spend several hours straight suffering through anxiety-ridden obsessions and compulsions. This book and its philosophy in combination with other efforts helped me significantly reduce my suffering.

I thought I was coming into this book only looking for a way to treat my illness but instead, I left it with a new outlook on life. To get into it, we rate our thoughts, actions, and feelings relative to a goal (that goal often being well-being). Albert Ellis emphasizes keeping that rating exclusively onto those thoughts, actions, and feelings and not extend that rating (of ‘good’ or ‘bad’) to ourselves as humans. When we separate rating our actions as good or bad rather than ourselves as good or bad it helps diminish ego and the suffering conditional acceptance brings. Albert Ellis takes it a step further and says that it would be impractical to rate the entirety of our beings as we are made up of millions of thoughts, actions, and feelings and ever-changing. Additionally, he expands that a person wouldn’t be able to correctly assign an accurate value to themselves for reasons outlined in the book.

Albert Ellis advocates for unconditional self-acceptance, other-acceptance, and life acceptance. He makes a valid case on why unconditional self-acceptance would make a better philosophy to go by rather than conditional self-acceptance (where we base our value on our own ability, life, and other’s inputs.) He encourages recognizing and replacing our irrational beliefs and rigid demands with rational beliefs and preferences.

He goes into many other things including perfectionism, shame exercises, disturbing ourselves about our disturbances, and even a composite of examining famous works and how they incorporate (or don’t incorporate) this philosophy. I barely scratched the surface of what this book has to offer and would highly recommend it. Albert Ellis has helped change lives and left many ideas to the world. I really do love this philosophy and I cannot express that beyond this. ...more "

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