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The confidence of which you speak is not false confidence. False confidence is a facade of confidence used to mask insecurities. The confidence lent by these self-help books, whether or not their information is actually helpful, is very real and can be very useful. Sure, I think most self-help stuff is either entirely obvious, or absolute bullshit, but if someone can read it and gain the confidence that allows them to alter their lives, then I won't berate them for it. It's a social placebo effect, and it can work impressive results under the right circumstances.
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
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