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Are We Living In A Post-Self-Help World?
Covid Thoughts
I don’t think people want to do the work of helping themselves anymore. I think so many of us would prefer to have a book or an o line course do the work and then tell us how to do it. Yet, it seems to me that this is a scapegoat too.
In fact, I think we are willing to throw some cash on the table for a Gumroad download or mini-course and then never actually follow it. I think that’s why there are so many of these products out there.
Heck, I’ve got one for life planning.
But I have started to wonder, especially while laying in bed scrolling through Twitter while recovering from Covid, do we live in a post-self-help world? Are we so numb to the idea of bettering ourselves that it’s just part of the culture but no one really cares?
How many of us have actually bought books or courses but never completed them? They just collect virtual dust on our Kindle Bookshelves or hard drives while we go on living our lives the way we always have.
Maybe this isn’t a new problem. Perhaps this has always been happening and I’ve become jaded. But something tells me we are entering into a new passivity of a post-self-help world.
What do you think?
