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If Animals Wrote Self Improvement Articles

A look into the psychology of animals and how it would pan out.

Sean Kernan
Curious
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4 min readOct 26, 2020

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Wildlife documentaries are rich food for the curious mind. They provide a fascinating contrast to human lives.

We pursue success. We push to be our best selves. Yet at the same time, animals live their own narratives. They do things that are remarkable, brilliant, cute — and totally horrifying. There is no logic, emotion, or mercy.

Nature is far more metal than Deicide or Cannibal Corpse could ever hope to be. But you can still see some element of yourself in each of them.

As a full-time writer, who often writes about self-improvement, and who gets tired of seeing the same formulaic writing, I couldn’t help but wonder what self-help articles by animals would be like.

Your feelings of inadequacy are all in your mind (giraffe)

The average giraffe neck is 6 feet long. But if you spend enough time on your computer, it’s easy to believe that 12 feet necks are the norm.

Influencers casually show themselves standing in deep ponds with their head still above water, or eating from the highest branches when there are lower branches much closer by. Why…

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Sean Kernan
Curious

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