On this episode of the Being Nicely Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest discover what’s actually incorrect with the self-help trade, going past the plain pseudoscience and snake oil to look at deeper structural points. They focus on how the trade’s concentrate on particular person accountability reinforces disgrace and ignores context, the dangers of turning therapeutic right into a endless undertaking, performative private development, narcissism, the position of social media and capitalism in shaping self-help content material, the blurred line between trustworthy striving and hustle tradition, and their private experiences navigating their very own relationship to the trade. All through, they emphasize discovering the center path: balancing company with consciousness, development with acceptance, and sincerity with skepticism.
Key Subjects
- 0:00: Introduction
- 4:32: Wholesome striving vs. obsessive self-improvement
- 8:27: The position of motivation: development, disgrace, and self-worth
- 12:13: Issues with inserting all accountability on the person
- 20:46: Performative self-help and religious status-seeking
- 26:13: Extreme self-preoccupation and narcissistic drift
- 34:34: Buddhist insights on “selfing” and the phantasm of id
- 44:43: Self-help as hustle tradition
- 50:57: The generational shift from grindset to mattress rotting
- 54:09: The self-help industrial complicated and its incentives
- 58:56: Commodifying the self and in search of validation
- 1:04:18: Creating moral, clear content material
- 1:08:12: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, take a look at his work there.
