Not even in my wildest dreams, I could envisage that you will be willing to read this extensive article that will probably steal almost 40 minutes of your precious time. Reason why I’ve pulled out  some of the cue ideas, intending to awaken your curiosity (if the article's tittle hasn’t done that already).

I am aware that Mark Manson is a recurring quoted writer in this blog, but to be honest, he nails it.

Here’s a sad fact: few ever make it to adulthood. And fewer manage to stay there. Why is that?

Let’s stop pretending. Yes, it’s about time.

Alexandra Schwartz makes an hilarious scrutiny of our society's obsessive urge of continuously seeking to be "the best version of ourselves" by pointing out from the neverending technological resources available to the infallible advice offered by best selling authors like Tim Ferris, to Charles Duhigg to Jane McGonigal.

But the article is centered in the outcome of the book “Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement”, written by Carl Cederström and André Spicer, two business-school professors in a field called “organization studies". The book is a comically committed exploration of current life-hacking

5 essential questions. That simple but paradoxically that rare.

5 questions we should be asking ourselves constantly, specially, when confronting a controversial situation.

"In Silicon Valley, techies are swooning over tarot-card readers. In New York, you can hook up to a “detox” IV at a lounge. In the Midwest, the Neurocore Brain Performance Center markets brain training for everything from ADHD, anxiety, and depression to migraines, stress, autism-spectrum disorder, athletic performance, memory, and cognition. And online, companies like Goop promote “