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How is My Dog Is Better at This Than Me different from other self-help books?

Three ways: it is genuinely funny rather than solemn; it delivers advice through a dog's example instead of a guru's authority — what Kirkus Reviews called "a fellow traveler rather than an all-knowing expert"; and it argues against the self-help industrial complex even as it offers real, practical exercises. It is written for self-help skeptics who still want to feel better.