“How not to be fooled by the person in front of you?” reads one of the several witty one-liners on the covers of fictional “self-help” books by artist Johan Deckmann. The funny yet honest pieces by psychotherapist-turned-author, certainly, hit the nail on its head as far as human insecurities are concerned. Deckmann’s simple and straight satire on Instagram works wonders for people who can relate to the uninvited but unavoidable misery of life.
How about a reading a book on ‘How to Pretend to be normal’ or ‘How to make a wrong turn and just keep going’?
Here’s how Johan Deckmann presents his words of wisdom on Instagram:
1. Mine is already UP!
2. Because this will indeed help you sail smoothly in life.
3. And an honest proposal!
4. Because you can be sanely insane sometimes!
5. Rather a book on how not to grow up?
Deckmann’s words are funny enough to put a smile across your face, as well as wise enough to leave you bewildered (analyzing the depth of his words).
6. No newness? You better know why.
7. Because you cannot get rid of either
8. And everything that troubles!
9. And how to fluently fool a person in front you?
10. Or somebody else does it for me, free of cost!
On one hand, where people look for the solutions to their daily-life problems between the shelves loaded with numerous books on self-help. Deckmann treats his 85,000 followers with rather sarcastic fake self-help book titles, which only leave us hoping for these books to be real! No doubt, Mr. Psychotherapist believes that the right words can be like good medicines.
11. The only way to make people believe that you are, really, smart
12. Also a book on a list of such movies?
13. I can write a book on this!
14. And you become nothing?
15. Do you mean peace?
Deckmann has the solution to almost all our mainstream life-problems, provided somebody pen a 1000 pages book on all the topics suggested by him. Some of the honest self-help reads that would ‘help’ me out of life would be a book on ‘How To Convince Your Parents To Stop Trying To Be Your Friends’ or one on ‘How Not To Go Back To Your Ex All The Time’.
Which honest self-help book would you love to read? Do tell us in the comments below.