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Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered?
Episode 1611

Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered?

Emma Goldberg talks about her recent exploration of whether today's self-help books go too far in encouraging paying less attention to other people.

The Brian Lehrer Show

September 3, 202514m 24s

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Show Notes

Emma Goldberg, business features writer for The New York Times, reporting on cultural, societal and economic change, and the author of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic (Harper, 2021), talks about her recent exploration of whether today's self-help books go too far in encouraging paying less attention to other people.
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