Have you ever felt like you are stuck in a rut, unsure of how to take the next step towards personal growth? When life looks ...

At the start of every year, millions of people around the world turn to self-improvement. And while many are looking to exercise more, lose weight, save money or get healthy, others are looking inward ...

New York Public Library's list of the 10 most-borrowed books include perhaps the best self-help book of all time: "How to Win Friends & Influence People." Our editors independently select these ...

When I was in seventh grade, I read Jen Sincero’s “You Are A Badass,” an extremely popular self-help book at the front of every bookstore in 2013. Part of the appeal was a friend’s insistence that it ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

In the quiet moments when your mind drifts—about 30 to 50 percent of waking hours—the real epiphanies strike. Not when highlighting passages in a self-help book or diligently absorbing advice. Change ...

While many social critics and journalists have commented on the concerning rise of anti-intellectualism within the American public, there has been less of a focus on the noticeable popularity of ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...