A lot of self-improvement advice is about goal setting. It might be the wrong advice for people who are overly preoccupied with extrinsic values and it's quite contrary to the advice that we find in ancient philosophy. Same goals as a normal part of life but that shouldn't be the primary source of value, he says.
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and Stoicism, self-help and modern psychology.
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