You can find the original essay in written form HERE on Paul’s Substack.

Paul argues in this essay that self-help can’t help but fail. Its very solutions feed the problem. But here’s the twist: their failure is good news. The comfort, mastery, and wholeness they dangle before us is an impossible fantasy—one that keeps us addicted to the next promise of completion. To see through this fantasy is to take a first step toward freedom. My aim is not a nihilistic rejection of growth, but an invitation to reimagine what life, transformation, and even virtue might look like once we stop chasing the mirage of wholeness.

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