We are all drawn to the possibility of becoming our "best self" and work towards confidence and a great career.

Bestselling self-improvement books add credibility to this idea because they are often authored by highly successful people who assure us that we can also find the same s...

Reading about self-improvement can be a compliment or a substitute for taking action.

• A complement view to self-improvement writing is that it should aid with personal development - the more books you read, the more likely you are to work on improving yourself.
• With substitutes...

In improving your knowledge base, you're not optimising for a specific goal, but all future learning goals.

• Read more textbooks and less popular books.
• Take more online classes on fundamental topics.
• When you can't build hig...