We examine seven books that challenge the pressure to constantly optimise, improve and fix oneself. Through philosophy, psychology and cultural critique, they question productivity as virtue and offer ...

Have you ever encountered someone who reads a self-improvement book and by the next week, they've fully incorporated it into their life, and are already accruing tremendous benefits from the advice?

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 ...

A psychologist's "little epiphany on the massage table" has sparked conversations around why you should beware self-improvement. Cass Dunn, a clinical and coaching psychologist, shared a profound ...

The internet offers virtually unlimited resources for professional growth that can help us develop, whether that’s by becoming more knowledgeable, healthy, positive or productive. Generative ...

Changing your life for the better is what self-improvement is all about. Any area of your life that you wish to improve, from physical health — to mental health, relationships to career to finances.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Aristotle famously said that knowing yourself is the beginning ...