Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
Self-improvement today is so integrated into our society that it is hard to know where it begins and ends. Yoga is taught at elementary schools. Mindfulness is used in prisons. Life-coaching is promoted as a way of combating poverty.
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
determination and blind commitment seemed like a good
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
husband is cheating on them, because they know deep inside
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
flooding out from my nostrils and my head was spinning.
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
new week began, I was going to adopt a new diet: raw veganism.
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
Mindfulness, right? That’s just rebranded meditation—something Buddhists have done for thousands of years. Waking up at five a.m.? Millions of Muslims do that every day. Chanting aphorisms to yourself? Hindus have done that for millennia. Taking long contemplative walks? Christian pilgrims have been doing that for centuries, too.”
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
wasn’t over. Tomorrow was going to be worse. André, April 29
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
to find out more about the faith through reading.
André Spicer • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement
Experiment.” Fine, I’ll stop complaining then. André, May 15