# I don’t have any problem with self-help articles per-se, but I definitely
have a problem with…

Tell me something I’ve never heard before. I don’t care if it’s stupidly
wrong. In fact, maybe it’s better if it’s wrong.

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I don’t have any problem with self-help articles per-se, but I definitely have
a problem with unoriginal content — and none of these articles told me
anything I hadn’t heard twenty years ago. (I am twenty-eight, and I don’t
think I was an especially well-read eight year old.)

Tell me something I’ve never heard before. I don’t care if it’s stupidly
wrong. In fact, maybe it’s better if it’s wrong.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [December 1,
2016](https://medium.com/p/18550d4051a2).

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