Using a self-help book about motivation as an aid to relaxation ...

Cartoon about self-help books, books about self improvement, self motivation etc.

A comment on the ethos of self motivation, self improvement, competitiveness and overachievement as promoted by the achievement orientated culture of contemporary western capitalism. (I?m very much in favour of achievement by the way ? my problem is with certain types of competitive and ruthless overachievement, and with the culture of pressure to overachieve).

The illustration shows someone ignoring the instructions of a book on self motivation. He is using the book as an aid to relaxation rather than action.
The flower is a reference to the idea that you should always give yourself time to ?smell the roses?.

Self-help books often deal with subjects of popular psychology such as relationships, or in aspects of the mind and human behaviour which the books claim can be modified or controlled to the advantage of the reader. Self-help books usually promote themselves as being able to increase the reader?s happiness, self-awareness and performance.

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