From Helpful to Flakes-ville

The many slippery slopes of self-help

Why is it so easy for half-decent advice to slide into half-baked flakiness? No offense to pastry, but no one wants the helpful guidance they seek to crumble into nothingness. All too often, however, what starts out as sensible takes a turn toward wishful thinking.

I’m talking about the kind of advice that veers from the practical and concrete (something…