Self-improvement has been separated from its original home: the field of philosophy.

Too many people view self-improvement as superficial “pop psychology,” and too many people view ethics as being about self-sacrifice. But, there’s no reason why self-improvement should be superficial, and there’s no reason why ethics should be about sacrificing oneself.

What if the real focus of ethics was not how to sacrifice oneself, but how to create and improve oneself? What if self-improvement, not self-sacrifice, was what ethics was all about?

It’s time to bring self-improvement back into the domain of philosophy, where it rightfully belongs. Specifically, I want to explore Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, which I think has a sophisticated view of the self and of how to develop and improve one’s self.