A lot of what I consider “self-improvement literature” is not of the “do hard changes on yourself” kind.
Much value can be derived by learning recipes for doing things (e.g. negotiation, weight loss, marksmanship)
Also much value is derived from gaining alternative lenses on things that while being more than skin-deep do not involve the kind of hard personality changes you’re objecting to (Frankl’s book on meaning had some of that effect on me)
A lot of what I consider “self-improvement literature” is not of the “do hard changes on yourself” kind.
Much value can be derived by learning recipes for doing things (e.g. negotiation, weight loss, marksmanship)
Also much value is derived from gaining alternative lenses on things that while being more than skin-deep do not involve the kind of hard personality changes you’re objecting to (Frankl’s book on meaning had some of that effect on me)