How to filter your self-help advice
Not all self-help content is created equal. This is how to tell what advice is helpful and what isn’t.
by: E.B. Johnson
As it’s the start of a new year, we’re seeing a boom in self-help content all over the place. While we might normally consider this craze in self-improvement a good thing, that’s not always the case. Not all self-help content is created equal, and some of it can actually enforce dangerous or half-cocked notions that further undermine our happiness. It’s important to know the difference between good self-help and bad self-help, but that requires increasing our own understanding of a tricky topic.
Not all self-help content is helpful.
We’re living through tough times, which makes it only natural that we should want to improve ourselves and our living conditions. Many of us have turned to self-help in these turbulent days in order to enhance our understanding of self and the skills we have to offer. Not all self-help content is helpful, though. As a matter of fact, some of it is quite toxic and harmful to the improvements we’re striving to make.
Before you engage with just any self-help content, it’s important that you ensure it meets some core criteria. Any kind of solid…
