‘Self-improvement’ doesn’t fully make sense. You don’t improve your self, you improve your ideas about things like: ‘Life improvement’ is more accurate.

– https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1346095952403304449

There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them.

– Alan Watts https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1354691587125637121

• if self-improvement is not an act of devotion its not self-improvement because you are fundamentally acting out on a formula of more x means more y.
• a men does not improve himself. he improves only his self-image