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When Self-Help Just Makes Your Life Worse

The pitfalls of organizing your days around productivity hacks, scheduled mindfulness, and constant self-improvement

Magdalena Puniewska

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Forge

6 min readDec 5, 2018

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It started with the internet. Every time she was online, it seemed like Bénédicte Kinkolo was served up another story about some successful person doing…

Magdalena Puniewska

Written by Magdalena Puniewska

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Forge

Writer: New York Magazine, Vice, Bon Appetit and others. mpuniewska.wixsite.com/home

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