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Oppo India has launched its Digital Self-Help Assistant, a new platform that allows users to fix minor issues with their smartphones independently by watching simulations or troubleshooting with given options. The smartphone maker said that the platform can be accessed both through its website and via the MyOppo app. The Self-Help Assistant portal features all the smartphones launched in the country in the last five years. The Chinese brand recently announced the handsets that will get the stable version of the Android…

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Picks of the weekScottee: Self HelpWidely available, weekly from New Year’s DayCabaret artist and activist Scottee has tried many mental health solutions over the years. Now he promises “an amateur’s guide to staying alive … fuelled by class, queerness and fatness”. His podcast is an antidote to what he describes as “delusional positivity”. Framing sanity as a house of cards, looking at how self-pity could help with healing, and showing how capitalism has exploited sadness, it’s thoughtful, helpful and forthright. Hannah…

At 29 years old, Anna is full of self-loathing. She hates her job, her boyfriend is having an affair and her parents’ response to her troubles is indifferent at best. This is the starting point for A Voice of One’s Own, the first novel to be published by The School of Life. In its pages, fiction and self-help make for uneasy bedfellows.Co-founded by philosopher Alain de Botton in 2008, The School of Life broadly aims to teach its “students” how to lead calmer, more fulfilling lives. Its publishing arm, launched in 2016,…

For as long as I can remember, my favourite place to be was an aisle in a bookstore. The shelves stacked with books meant that every visit was a new, unplanned adventure. I could spend hours, flipping a book’s pages, deciding which one to get from the limited money I had. PREMIUM The power of self help literature. (Shutterstock) As a child, I sought out mystery and fun in the form of the now-berated Enid Blyton and the Bobbsey Twins. A teenage me picked up Nancy Drew Case Files alongside classics like…

Can philosophy help us with worldly troubles? Ancient philosophers thought the answer was obvious. Philosophy is a “medical art for the soul”, Cicero tells us. Its compassionate task is to lead us from suffering towards a life lived well. Contemporary philosophers are likely to be more circumspect. Wouldn’t it be presumptuous to think that my training in philosophy equips me to offer advice? The only CPR I know is the Critique of Pure Reason and the tools of my trade – a careful distinction here, some logic-chopping there…

You are a victim. A person of anxious experience, navigating a minefield of shame triggers. Research suggests that people with your attachment style are predisposed to dissociating. Some experts believe this very sentence could re-traumatize you. It’s not your fault, of course. You just need to reframe your narrative.This is the language of a coalescing sub-genre of self-help books that combine the comforting yet impenetrable vocabulary of modern therapy with pseudoscientific grand theories on human behavior. You’ll…