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Vulnerability
July 14, 2021
Kalpana Mohanty
The Seductive Lie of Post-Pandemic Self-Optimization
From The New York Times to Instagram, a recent genre of self-help writing wants you to think the last 16 months were really just an opportunity to become your best self.
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