Improving Ourselves to Death

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In our current self-help era, individual self realisation is at its highest. The book "Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze (Polity)" by Svend Brinkmann, professor of psychology at Aalborg University since 2009, is part of the wave of "freeing yourself from your demands." Mr Brinkmann explains that when he and his colleagues at Aalborg University were asked to propose institutional development goals, he suggested that "we should strive to become a mediocre institute." "I thought it was a realistic goal worth pursuing for a small university," Mr Brinkmann explains.(Summary provided by Infomedia) Sources:Head Topics, 05-10-2022