Just as mastering how to learn accelerates learning itself, mastering how to self-improve accelerates self-improvement itself. This might seem unnecessarily meta, but it's a force multiplier to help ...

Self-help has a dark side, experts warn. If you spot these signs in your own efforts at self-improvement, your quest may have turned toxic. Over 15 years, she reports, she bought hundreds of books, ...

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In today's fast-paced business world, personal development often takes a backseat to pressing deadlines and endless meetings. Most of us working in corporate America, especially women, try to do way ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...

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Self-help, self-improvement or personal growth — call them what you will, but the literary genre is around an $800 million industry annually. And why not? Most of us want to be better than we ...

Self-improvement sounds like a good thing, right? But not all habits that promise to make you better are actually helping you. Some popular self-improvement trends can quietly hurt your mental health, ...

Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really make us better people? New year, new you. As we wrap ...

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New research from A Mission for Michael finds that January’s “new year, new you” culture can harm mental health for millions.