My List of Fields of Self-Help

[AtmanIsBrahman]

I decided to make a list of the sub-fields of self-help, inspired by Leo's old video from a few years ago. https://youtu.be/HJXthKsytpE?si=rpkTXIayk_0O__ky

One criticism I have of Leo's list is that he often presented practices (such as shadow work) as fields, whereas I would consider them a practice that is an aspect of a field. I only listed what I consider to be fields. I also added some fields that Leo didn't mention.

My list:

1) Life purpose- finding and creating your life purpose, and pursuing it as a career

2) Career- figuring out the thing you will spend a large portion of your time doing that will lead to getting money

3) Getting Money- finding out how money works, strategies to make money; learning investing and business; hustling

4) Mastery- mastering a skill, and learning the art of mastering a skill

5) Learning- finding out about various subjects and, importantly, the meta-skill of learning how to learn

6) Looksmaxxing- improving your physical appearance to get better social outcomes. Overlaps with health, biohacking, and social dynamics

7) Getting girls- Learning game; Online game, daygame, nightgame

8) Socialization- learning how to talk to people, make connections, enjoy socializing, be socially calibrated, influence people. Especially important for introverts.

9) Social Dynamics- understanding the social domain on a systemic level. Includes sociology and anthropology, politics, psychology and evolutionary psychology, blackpill/redpill, understanding conformity, and understanding collective ego.

10) Understanding your personality- figuring out the static aspects of who you are as an ego, and how to fit your life around them. Might include MBTI, Big 5, neurodivergence, etc.

11) Spirituality- the vast field of mystical and direct-experience approaches to reality. Can be used for being happier, eliminating suffering, chasing mystical states, psychedelics, the paranormal, contemplation, meditation, etc.

12) Philosophy- finding out what is true about the Universe/Existence/Life. Includes metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. This overlaps with spirituality and makes use of but goes beyond rationality.

13) Rationality- learning to reason well and distinguish between truth and falsehood for worldly things. This includes scientific method, logic, argumentation, etc. It helps you to make better life decisions and ultimately do philosophy.

14) Health- living well and long. Includes nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management (or avoidance), avoiding drugs.

15) Biohacking- using biological knowledge or pharmaceuticals to improve your life. This involves using rationality and science to figure out which chemicals might be worth using (of course be careful). Might include taking psychedelics, taking supplements, peptides, testosterone, etc.

16) Happiness- finding out how to be happy. Might involve all of the above areas.

Of course, there is some overlap between many of these, but I think they sum of the landscape of self-help pretty well. 

What do you think? Is this a good summary of the self-help landscape? 
Or did I miss some fields?

 

Leo's list, for reference:
1. Success, productivity and goal setting 2. Law of attraction 3. Time management 4. Career and life purpose 5. Creativity 6. Business and entrepreneurship 7. Marketing and sales 8. Leadership and management 9. Money management 10. Dating and attraction 11. Relationships 12. Love 13. Family and marriage 14. Sexuality, masculinity and femininity 15. Health, fitness, nutrition and alternative medicine 16. Body awareness and bioenergetics 17. Self esteem and confidence 18. Emotions and emotional mastery 19. Shadow work 20. Addiction recovery 21. Trauma recovery 22. Mental disorders 23. Personality types 24. NLP and (self-)hypnosis 25. Religion 26. Spirituality (and consciousness work) a. Non-duality b. Meditation/mindfulness c. Yoga d. Psychedelics e. New age/paranormal/psychic abilities 27. Shamanism and the occult 28. Healing 29. Psychology a. Positive psychology b. Transpersonal psychology 30. Lifestyle design 31. Technical "how-tos" 32. Politics and government 33. Philosophy, meta-physics and epistemology 34. Social psychology, cognitive psychology and anthropology 35. History and science 36. Biographies

Edited 20 hours ago by AtmanIsBrahman

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Keep it up, stay aligned with your progress!

Best wishes.

[Ramanujan]

jack of all trades  , master of one