The Self-Help Book for People Who Don't Need Help. Move your life from the average to the incredible. Richard Brodie dropped out of Harvard to join the computer revolution and write the first version of Microsoft Word. Then he embarked on an equally intense search for a more meaningful life. For three years he mined the wisdom of famed self-improvement seminars and workshops. He wanted to discover why life seemed to coast along at either an 'OK' level or plummet into 'the pits', spending so little time in true satisfaction and fulfilment. Here, the author of 'Virus of the Mind', shares the results of his odyssey.