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When self-help culture clashes with cyclical thinking

I keep starting over with exercise and diet and meditation and I'm wondering if the whole idea of linear self-improvement is just Western nonsense.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're questioning whether your repeated fresh starts represent failure or a more natural rhythm of human growth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hindu cosmic time cycles — yugas?”

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