SUCCESS MAGAZINE | March 10, 2020 Article by Cecilia Meis

Personal development has been called many things: too prescriptive, too woo-woo, too vague, too cultish. We’ve all seen the rise and fall of thousands of motivational speakers, authors, so-called experts, and coaches. We’ve all seen the negative press and enough bad players touting now-debunked claims that, for a while, society at large had a pretty bad taste in its mouth about this whole “personal development” thing.

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