Have you ever bought a self-help book? If so, you’re not alone. The self-help book market is big business, both in the Low Countries and well as outside its borders. However, the genre does come under a lot of criticism. Is it deserving of it? We shall be debating this with its advocates and opponents, including happiness expert Ad Bergsma and Laurens Knoop, who brought the School of Life philosophy by Alain de Botton to Holland.