For all of those of you who, like me, are in daily recovery from neuroticism, nothing else poses a better, easier and more discreet lifeline than a good self-help book. I'm currently flipping through the pages of several self-help books, including one called "How to Talk to Yourself."
The main goal of every self-help book is to render the reader confident and happy. And they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I say cut out all of the "blah, blah, blah" and get out some "rah, rah, rah" by watching the video for "Jump" by Van Halen. Because at that moment in time, those guys got it.
You will never see anyone as supremely self-confident as David Lee Roth in this video, preening over his own beauty--tousling hair that should only be seen in a 1980s girls locker room, thick with the smell of Aquanet, and doing split jumps like he just won the cheerleading nationals. And the way he slinks around in a leonine manner. Diamond Dave is clearly a man who loves himself.
And then there's Eddie Van Halen, whose child-like face exudes sheer, unbounded giddiness at the prospect of making his guitar sing while communing with his bandmates.
Confidence and happiness. And a really good keyboard riff.
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