Sometimes the biggest transformation doesn’t come from dramatic events - it comes from the books we read and the ideas we absorb. The right self-improvement book can help us recognise limiting beliefs ...

It is easy to dismiss self-help books and those who read them. But not only do we need serious self-help, we must also take self-help more seriously. Valued at $11 billion worldwide, self-help is a ...

The start of a new year is the perfect time to take stock of your life. Is there something you’ve always wanted to do but held yourself back from? Is there an area of your life you’ve always wanted to ...

The global self-help industry is worth between $45 billion and $59 billion. It’s also called personal growth or self-improvement, not always self-help. And this isn’t just books, but it’s also courses ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

From the 1940s to the ’60s, the Onitsha Market in southeastern Nigeria was the center of a burgeoning movement in self-help literature. Known as Onitsha Market literature, these cheap, locally ...

Mark Coeckelbergh, a professor of philosophy of media and technology at the University of Vienna, has written a great deal about the digital tools and means of communication that many of us tend to ...

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 ...