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The Self-Help Trap: Feeling Better vs. Being Better

Stian Pedersen
4 min readOct 23, 2023

The self-help industry has nailed down the art of selling you a moment — a feel-good, “I can conquer the world” moment. But what happens when that moment fades? Did anything really change?

You dive back in, searching for another hit, another book, another guru. It’s pure mental masturbation: it feels good for a moment, but it’s not the transformative experience you were…

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Stian Pedersen

Prompt engineer with marketing background. Writing about AI and marketing. Former poker pro. Self-help junkie. Homebrewer. AI-assisted, never AI-generated.