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NEWS ABOUT: self-improvement

self-improvement stories: 4 news summaries

Positive Thinking Can Make You Feel Worse: Study

Affirmations don't help low self-esteem

Jun 22, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - It turns out the Little Engine That Could had it all wrong. Repeating positive statements to yourself doesn’t appear to help people with low self-esteem, according to a new study. Researchers asked students to repeat statements like “I am a lovable person” to themselves, then measured their mood.... More »

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study • psychology • experiments • self-help • positive thinking • self-improvement • Norman Vincent Peale

 50 Ways to Improve Your 2009 

Resolutions for your health, wealth and playful self

Jan 1, 09 5:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Just in case your pledge to exercise more didn’t satiate your need for self-improvement resolutions, US News and World Report offers 50 more ways to improve your life in 2009. Here are a few:
  • Pack up for Vermont: When it comes to healthy habits and community, the Green
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television • dementia • Abraham Lincoln • crossword puzzle • Hulu • Guitar Hero • self-help • self-improvement

OPINION

Gimmicky Green Authors
Wouldn't Impress Thoreau

Writers often more into self promotion than self denial

Dec 28, 08 5:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Modern-day Henry David Thoreaus don't need to move to the woods for life to land a book deal. The push for green living has given us, unfortunately, no small number of gimmicky books on the subject, laments Michael Agger in Mother Jones. Temporarily living without plastic, eating only locally grown... More »

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energy • green • green revolution • Henry David Thoreau • Walden Pond • self-improvement • ascetic

book review

 Sontag's 
 Early 
 Journals 
 Mesmerize 

Journals tell a touching tale of earnest self-creation

Dec 16, 08 6:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The newly released diaries of a young Susan Sontag provide an invaluable glimpse of how the writer-to-be came to be, critics say. “I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person," the late Sontag writes of journaling. "I create myself."... More »

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critic • writer • journals • intellectual • Susan Sontag • self-improvement

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