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Développement personnel : pourquoi un tel succès ?

Le podcast "Passerelle" explore le développement personnel, son histoire et son succès grandissant dans nos sociétés individualistes. Emilie s'interroge sur ce que signifie "devenir soi-même" et sur l'idée de devoir constamment s'améliorer. #développementpersonnel #société #philosophie
Duration
22.5 mins
Level
intermediate
Word Count
2877 (867 unique words)
Topics
Current Affairs
England
Existentialism
France
History
Individualism
Lifestyle
Location
Personal Growth
Philosophy
Self-Improvement
Social Issues
Social Trends
Stoicism
United Kingdom
United States
Victorian Era
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Welcome to Passerelle, a podcast designed to spark the curiosity of French language learners.
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Hi, I'm Emilie, and this week, as usual, I'd like to invite you to take a few minutes to reflect on something with me.
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In each episode, I try to bring you different topics to explore.
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My goal is simply to share with you some food for thought and to encourage you to start thinking in French.
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Today, we're going to talk about personal development.
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Walk into any bookstore these days, and you're bound to find shelves overflowing with self-help books, covering practically every aspect of human existence.
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Books that promise to help us be ourselves, transform our lives, and find meaning in our existence.
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Let me be clear: the goal of this episode isn't to reach a conclusion like "personal development is great" or "personal development is terrible."
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This is one of those topics where I needed to really dig in - read a lot, listen to podcasts, explore different sources, the whole nine yards.
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I needed some time to process everything before I could begin to understand this phenomenon, to understand why it's so successful nowadays.
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To let things settle in this phrase means to give me enough time for my thoughts to clear up.
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A lot is said and written about personal development, but what interests me is having a curious mind and a non-judgmental approach.
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When you think about it, you realize there's a whole vocabulary, a whole set of phrases, that gets repeated over and over in the self-help world.
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I'll give you a few examples, but before that, here's the question we're going to consider today.
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What does it really mean to become yourself? First, let's talk about the origins of personal development.
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First, we'll examine the reasons for its success, and finally, I'll share my reservations about a certain type of discourse, the idea that we should strive at all costs to become a better version of ourselves.
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Before I move on to something completely unrelated to personal development, I wanted to mention that it's back-to-school week as I'm releasing this episode.
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If you follow the news in France even a little bit, you've definitely heard about it.
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Even though it gets on my nerves a bit, here's another useful French expression for complaining: "ça me saoule" (it bugs me). And even though I'm tired of hearing about "la rentrée" (the return to school/work after summer) every single day, it really is a special time of year.
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Because, in a way, it's a time for new beginnings.

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