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Desperately Seeking Self-improvement: A Year inside the Optimization Movement by Carl Cederström and André Spicer is a hilarious (and sometimes frightening) account of how they spent a full year dedicating each month to a different way of improving themselves.
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Even for Carl Cederström and André Spicer, professors at leading business schools, their resolution for 2016 was remarkably ambitious. They set out “to understand why people would be spending their lives trying to become better, faster, stronger” – that is, to understand why people make resolutions at all. The resulting book’s twelve chapters correspond to twelve months of self-optimization testing. Each has a set theme: productivity, the body, the brain, relationships, spirituality, sex, pleasure, creativity, money, morality, attention and meaning.”
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This contemporary tension — where most of us live between small-scale personal empowerment and large-scale social disempowerment — makes Carl Cederström and André Spicer’s new book Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement timely and enlightening. It captures the alluring and often insidious desire to be better, especially in an era where things couldn’t seem to be worse.
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This book, which chronicles their improvement schemes in daily journals running in parallel, leads them to some very funny—and also very painful and even a little disturbing—places. Do not try this at home.
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