TGIF, people. I’m sending this newsletter here on Friday as promised, though it’s a bit down to the wire.
This week, I have a post about whether self-improvement is a kind of stage of life that you are eventually able to move beyond.
And no, no it’s not: Nothing is “Beyond” Self-Improvement
This question interested me because although lots of people discuss productivity on the ground - habits, goals, methods - less attention is paid abstractly, to what place this stuff has in our lives, what place it could or should have instead.
So I was glad to see Scott Young write on it recently (What’s beyond self-improvement?) but unfortunately I think his vision of how to shift out of self-improvement is psychologically and philosophically unrealistic.
Self-improvement never ends, nor should it, though the ways it shows up in your life may shift with the circumstances.
ICYMI
ICYMI last week I was back here after a while off with a light, cheery post about my decision to leave NYC and move to Austin.
Recommend a deep, dark fictional book to me?
I just finished Kristin Lavransdatter.
It occupied most of my free time for several months and now I have a hole in my life in the shape of a dark and complex work of fiction.
Got any recs?
Have a great weekend and until next time,
Pamela J. Hobart