Just as mastering how to learn accelerates learning itself, mastering how to self-improve accelerates self-improvement itself. This might seem unnecessarily meta, but it's a force multiplier to help ...

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

In today's fast-paced business world, personal development often takes a backseat to pressing deadlines and endless meetings. Most of us working in corporate America, especially women, try to do way ...

Self-help, self-improvement or personal growth — call them what you will, but the literary genre is around an $800 million industry annually. And why not? Most of us want to be better than we ...

Teenage years are very special to all of us. This is the time when we are still in the phase of defining ourselves and finding our individualities. Reading self-improvement books is a great way to ...

Self-help has a dark side, experts warn. If you spot these signs in your own efforts at self-improvement, your quest may have turned toxic. Over 15 years, she reports, she bought hundreds of books, ...

New Year’s Day has long been regarded as the official start date for setting resolutions and getting serious about sticking to them. But what if you had a three-month head start? If you think about it ...

Investing in yourself is one of the best forms of self-care. With today’s fast-paced lifestyle, it can be hard to find time to actually sit down and work on improving yourself. Reading a book?

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 ...

Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really make us better people? New year, new you. As we wrap ...

Self-improvement sounds like a good thing, right? But not all habits that promise to make you better are actually helping you. Some popular self-improvement trends can quietly hurt your mental health, ...