Whether you are looking for a solid system, some inspiring words, or just a charismatic person to deliver it all, self-help gurus have your back.

With promises of smooth strategies to success, happiness, and fulfillment, a lot of gurus bread and butter is a strategy that has been the norm for decades: universal laws.

Presented as one-size-fits-all strategies, so many gurus fall back on either their own experiences or other people’s experiences where these strategies work, or they cherry-pick studies that prove without a doubt that what they’re saying has legs.