The Self-Help Industry Needs an Empathy Check
No one improves themselves in a vacuum
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5 min readJul 29, 2020
The problem that Kenny Trinh was using self-help to solve was his shyness. The bigger problem was what it turned him into.
Trinh was a self-described “meek and shy” office worker who wanted to become a self-assured CEO type. “I wanted to be the smart, confident person in the room,” Trinh says, but…
