"**Something I’ve had to learn to accept, as I wander the world of self-help, is an awful lot of people telling me to practise ‘the art of acceptance’.** Most books on self-improvement, of course, preach the opposite: they’re about How to Transform Your Whole Life Completely. But a sizeable minority urges you to love your life, or your job, or the fact that you’re single; they claim to tell you how to ‘want what you have’ --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[acceptance]], [[fresh-startism]], [[self-help-books]], **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]