is self-help bad? - by Ava - bookbear express
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individualism vs collectivism once again
by Henri Matisse Yesterday I listened to the Maintenance Phase podcast on Rachel Hollis. She’s a self-help guru popular with red state women who wrote the book Girl, Wash Your Face and was recently cancelled for a tone-deaf TikTok in which she sort of compared herself to, uh, Harriet Tubman. I’m going to skip over Hollis’ “controversies” because I’m more interested in the podcast’s critique of her self-help advice, which in my opinion largely is a critique of rampant individualism. This is true of not just Rachel Hollis but of basically every successful self-help author: the former Marine…
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