The thing about personal development
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It's so damned personal!
Yup, personal development still is, unbelievably, so darned personal. Self betterment still is so much about the actual "self". "Personal" and "self" still are the keywords here. Who'd have thought that with all this new technology one would still have to take personal development personally? Shameful.
There are over seventy million results for "personal development" in Google search, and over forty for "self development". So people have an obvious need to talk about it, mainly teaching it to others. Which is at least absurd.
Developing the self
It seems rather obvious to me that the only "selves" developing here are those of the ones selling their books on the topic. As with all things, the very immensity of material written (following demand) suggests the futility of it all - no one has the optimal recipe, no one really manages to actually better another ones' selves, while everyone seems to have the knowledge and ability to shape other fellow humans as to improve their selves to a tremendous degree.
With humans, you'd need to actually have a "self development" pill in order to succeed in your brave enterprise of developing selves. In other words, you would need to find a way to strip the "self" in "self development" of its reflective meaning, thus rendering it passive, therefore making the whole thing as accessible as, say, any ordinary product one would be able to actually buy and use like they'd use Viagra - to become better at something they usually and miserably fail at.
Personal underdevelopment
To be honest, all of these self development schemes resemble a bit (a bit more, actually) those pen1s enlargement programs that spoil our online pr0n viewing experience. Except in this case the pen1s is your very own self.
Finally, it should become absolutely clear to you that the industry of developing selves is a shameless scam, and if you should think you're underdeveloped self-wise, well, you'd better turn off your computer now and get on to improving things yourself.
No Internet guru is going to pull it through for you. Fact.
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