Loneliness in the Library of Self-Help

Finn wanders through self-improvement culture, from Stoicism to Instagram wellness, examining how the promise to reduce suffering often increases it. He explores the exhaustion of turning yourself into a constant improvement project and suggests that the most radical self-help might be to stop trying to help yourself, finding peace not through optimization but through acceptance of your unoptimized self.

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