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The thing the self-improvement industry rarely tells you is that the goal isn’t to become a different person — it’s to become a person who has stopped negotiating with the one you...

I am thirty-eight and I have spent, on close examination, considerably more of my adult life than I would prefer to admit inside the wider self-improvement register. The register includes the various books, podcasts, courses, and small daily practices that the contemporary culture has produced in increasing volume across the previous two decades.

The thing the self-improvement industry rarely tells you is that the goal isn’t to become a different person — it’s to become a person who has stopped negotiating with the one you...

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I am thirty-eight and I have spent, on close examination, considerably more of my adult life than I would prefer to admit inside the wider self-improvement register.

The register includes the various books, podcasts, courses, and small daily practices that the contemporary culture has produced in increasing volume across the previous two decades.

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I am thirty-eight and I have spent, on close examination, considerably more of my adult life than I would prefer to admit inside the wider self-improvement register. The register includes the various books, podcasts, courses, and small daily practices that the contemporary culture has produced in increasing volume across the previous two decades.

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