Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered?
Sep 03, 2025•14 min•Ep. 1611
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Episode description
Emma Goldberg, business features writer for The New York Times, reporting on cultural, societal and economic change, and the author of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic (Harper, 2021), talks about her recent exploration of whether today's self-help books go too far in encouraging paying less attention to other people.
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