Is Self-Help Bad? - By Ava - Bookbear Express

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I’m also very interested in the idea they expressed that most self-help tells you how to be a better person, but better on the axes of being more productive or more happy (like, a better girlboss), not actually a good person. I would like to see more writing on how to be a good person that is not rationalist-adjacent thinking, that talks about “goodness” in terms of beauty and emotions.
But I still think contradiction is necessary, that all of us are holding ideas that conflict with each other and that’s just the fucking human condition. We try to have keep the stability and the excitement, to love ourselves and change ourselves, to be spiritually connected while maintaining ambition in the world, and we always fall short.
I think it’s more about trying to find some semblance of coherence in all of the chaos: believing in individualism but also understanding that we are necessarily interdependent, affected by the systems and institutions that we live in. Still believing that a single person can perform a miracle that affects all the generations to come.

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I’m also very interested in the idea they expressed that most self-help tells you how to be a better person, but better on the axes of being more productive or more happy (like, a better girlboss), not actually a good person. I would like to see more writing on how to be a good person that is not rationalist-adjacent thinking, that talks about “goodness” in terms of beauty and emotions.
But I still think contradiction is necessary, that all of us are holding ideas that conflict with each other and that’s just the fucking human condition. We try to have keep the stability and the excitement, to love ourselves and change ourselves, to be spiritually connected while maintaining ambition in the world, and we always fall short.
I think it’s more about trying to find some semblance of coherence in all of the chaos: believing in individualism but also understanding that we are necessarily interdependent, affected by the systems and institutions that we live in. Still believing that a single person can perform a miracle that affects all the generations to come.

rw-book-cover

I’m also very interested in the idea they expressed that most self-help tells you how to be a better person, but better on the axes of being more productive or more happy (like, a better girlboss), not actually a good person. I would like to see more writing on how to be a good person that is not rationalist-adjacent thinking, that talks about “goodness” in terms of beauty and emotions.
But I still think contradiction is necessary, that all of us are holding ideas that conflict with each other and that’s just the fucking human condition. We try to have keep the stability and the excitement, to love ourselves and change ourselves, to be spiritually connected while maintaining ambition in the world, and we always fall short.
I think it’s more about trying to find some semblance of coherence in all of the chaos: believing in individualism but also understanding that we are necessarily interdependent, affected by the systems and institutions that we live in. Still believing that a single person can perform a miracle that affects all the generations to come.