>>10570463I don't explicitly self-improve but some of my hobbies and their benefits happen to fall in line with what's usually considered self-improvement. Lifting as a ritual for some mythical improvement is just a meme, cardio and calisthenics will probably do you much better if your goal is health and contentment. I lift cause I think it's fun to watch the numbers go up and I like subtly mogging other manlets.
I feel self-improvement for its own sake's become this social ritual people engage in, more than any kind of "self"-improvement. The shit the redditors guzzle over at r/theredpill and what the people who fit the description in picrel do is just an obscure and pointless hobby that has no more significance to the average person than praying. If you wanna "self"-improve look to the self-part more than the improvement part, identify the factors in yourself that you really feel are lacking, and not for some socially prescribed game.
tl;dr -- Self-improvement is taken to be a universal panacea when it should and IS highly individualized when done properly. Self-improvement done improperly is a socialized ritual that provides a temporary direction to depressed and complacent people who haven't taken the time to introspect yet.
