I really like this topic. I always have and still do believe that personal growth is a good thing. I think of it this way: I’m not trying to compare myself to anyone else, but I know that I am a better person in many ways today than I was a few years ago. I’d like to continue through life this way.
I’ve never really seen any harm in approaching life with the idea that continual self-improvement is a positive. But an article, “I am all I have” from Frits de Lange, a professor of ethics in the Netherlands questions whether this self-improvement culture of today is contributing to the epidemic of depression.
Here’s an excerpt:
…the emergence of the depression must somehow be connected with the moral dictate of neoliberal culture that requires the individual to take his fate into his own hands. The fact that each individual is personally responsible for making himself into someone who amounts to something in the eyes of others and in his own, may be the ultimate
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