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Welcome to another post on self-help myths where I take a personal development concept (in previous posts I looked at confidence and procrastination) and discuss the flaws behind it or take on an alternative perspective. This week I will look at the concept of “being yourself” and discuss how the statement is horribly flawed.

The whole point of this self-help myths series is to provide an alternative perspective on common personal development topics and for many people there is no bigger a topic than top of procrastination. It is the original bad habit that causes you to get distracted when you should be working, means you put off important tasks, and ultimately leaves you have to rush your projects at the last minute. There is so much information out there on how to “overcome” it (even I have an admittedly great article, natch) that researching the topic itself can ironically become a form of procrastination.

Today I’m starting a new series here at Organize IT where I take fundamental self-help lessons and stick them under a critical microscope. I believe it’s important to look at all sides of an issue and hopefully this series will make you rethink the more popular self-help topics. In this first post I will talk about confidence, one of the most important topics of any good self-help guru’s repertoire.