Description: From videogames to TV shows and everything in between
I have had a recent brush with self-improvement/self-help/personal development books. Call them what you will, books where prescriptions of mental and physical exercises are meted out in an attempt to meet a hierarchy of needs without addressing the foundations of those needs—would be a far more accurate description.
In the UK alone, 2022 saw the sale of personal development books cross the £50 million threshold . The market (not just books, everything ) in the US (which comes with further trappings of seminars and a ridiculous array of crap you can buy) is estimated to be worth something like $9.9 billion in 2019 and it doesn’t appear to have shrunk in the interim, despite the pandemic.
The global self-improvement apps market in 2019 was valued at $2.5 billion . It is here, fair ladies, gentlemen, and lovelies of non-binary gender, that we set the rest of our story.