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“Little bit of Neil Diamond,” he said as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra revved up the go-go self-improvement jive of “Crunchy Granola Suite.”

People believed that instead of reaching perfection as a community of chosen, as members of the true church, an individual could achieve perfection, specifically through self-investigation and self-improvement.

I thought of how he and so many other truckers sacrificed self-improvement — things like English classes — in the name of getting ahead at work.

It feels like another variation on the endless online content on self-improvement, but with a sprinkling of scripture on top of the talk about dating or improving your daily mood.

Newsom stated that Castillo has committed himself to self-improvement while in prison and appears to be a good prospect for reentry into the community.