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I thought lectures about staying away from boys, not having children and focusing on education and work were happening in every home in America. However as an adult, I've met lots of people-those who went to college and those who did not-who said their parents didn't offer them any advice regarding their future.  They found their own way.

While I had the education thing

I have been reading for self-improvement since 1989 when I was taking Black Studies courses at Penn State University. Black Studies taught me concepts like paradigm shifts, reframing and ultimately personal transformation. After this experience I continued to seek answers to life's struggles and dilemmas by reading. Staying true to my academic roots, after college I continue to read history, literary fiction, political and cultural books.

I don't think I truly believed in the actual self-help genre for a long time even after I purchased my first self-help books during the early 1990s. 

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