For some people, the answer to the questions posed in the title is so obviously, “yes,” that it doesn’t even need to be discussed. However, there seems to be an increasing number of people answering those questions, “no.” For example: Now, before we get into this, it’s important for you to know a little bit about my background because it does inform my opinion. First of all, I’ve read more than a hundred self-help books and I have a book that was at one point, one of the top 50 best-selling self-help books on Amazon (