Day by day I'm getting better and better.

Day by day I'm getting better and better.

Day by day I'm getting better and better.

Day by day I'm getting better and better. Day by day, I'm getting better and better.

Sounds like a mantra, right?

Something you might write on a sticky note

and put on your bathroom mirror.

It sort of is, and this is called self-induced conscious auto suggestion.

And that's just a fancy long term for a mantra if we're being honest and you can think

of it like a motivational rosary.

People in the early 1900s used to repeat these words

while counting mechanically on a long string with 20 knots.

This was what self-help looked like back then,

and just like today, the leaders in the self-help

space had an almost cult-like following around them.

We're still obsessed with self-help, though the movement has grown exponentially and taken on many different forms.

Benjamin Franklin wrote about personal advancement in his autobiography,

calling it The Project for Moral Perfection. In 1989, the bestseller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People was released.

And today we've got misogynistic self-proclaimed self-help gurus and alleged sex traffickers

talking about how you're more manly if you hit women.

But seriously, aside from the Andrew Tate's of the world, self-help is meant to be a space that helps

people improve and grow.

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