Emma Goldberg, business features writer for The New York Times, reporting on cultural, societal and economic change, and the author of <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/life-on-the-line-emma-goldberg?variant=40828179578914">Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic</a> (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. → <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/style/self-help-books-columns-readers.html" target="_blank">Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?</a>

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.→ Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?

Emma Goldberg, business features writer for The New York Times, reporting on cultural, societal and economic change, and the author of <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/life-on-the-line-emma-goldberg?variant=40828179578914" rel="noopener noreferrer">Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic</a> (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. → <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/style/self-help-books-columns-readers.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Is Today’s Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?</a>

Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered?

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Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered?

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