SELF-IMPROVEMENT

 In the classical period religious or literary literatures of the Western or Eastern world, there are advices for people to live more happily.  However, in these works, which can be evaluated under the title of "advice" in classical Turkish literature, it is seen that there are more advices to adapt to the divine order and social morality and decency rather than providing more profit.  In today's sense, personal development was defined in the Western world in the 1800s under the title of "Self improvement", as the right to solve a wrong by legal means and by using one's own initiative.  Kind's self-help book was published in 1859 with the title "Self improvement" by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904).[1]  The opening sentence of the book: "Sema helps those who help themselves."  It is a variation of Benjamin Franklin's sentence "God helps those who help themselves" in Poor Richard's Almanac (1733-1758).  In the 20th century, the great success of Dale Carnegie's personal development book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), translated into Turkish as "The Art of Winning Friends and Influencing People", encouraged the writing of new books of similar genre.  Previously, although not under Personal Development, ideas were put forward about the influence of people's thoughts on their lives, for example, in the book called As a Man Thinketh, published by James Allen in 1902, it is said that "a person is what he thinks as a line, his character is the sum of all thoughts".  In Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich (1937), it is claimed that repeated positive thoughts will arouse "infinite intelligence" and attract happiness and wealth.[2]  In the child quarter of the 20th century, personal development has been associated with postmodern subjectivity built by self-reflection, and it has been argued that the crisis of subjectivity manifests itself in self-development books that are increasingly sold.  Some sociological theorists claim that such a preoccupation with the self of people in personal development is used as one of the tools of social control and to prevent political unrest.

INTERESTING INFORMATION

 INTERESTING INFORMATION1.  Tardigrade, the most durable creature discovered on Earth, can survive for 10 days in a vacuum space environment.2.  The core of the Earth is at a temperature of 5500 degrees Celsius.  This temperature is immediately equal to the surface temperature of the Sun.3.  The total amount of ice in Antarctica is equal to the amount of water in the Atlantic Ocean.4.  8.600.000 lightning strikes the Earth every day.5.  Examples of kind life on Earth are found in layers 3.5 billion years ago, in Australia.  This is so long that there was not even oxygen in the atmosphere at that time.6.  Air pollution in China seen from space.  The Great Wall of China cannot be seen from space.7.  200,000 babies are born every day.8.  A human can survive in outer space for a maximum of 2 minutes, completely unprotected.9.  This is how grains of sand look under the microscope.  There are no 24 hours in a day.  In fact, it is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds.11.  Human DNA is 50% the same as banana DNA. 12. The world is even smoother than a bowling ball.  In contrast to the imperceptible roughness on the bowling ball, even the highest mountain and the deepest ocean make up only 1/5,000th of the Earth's surface thickness.13.  97% of the world's water is salt water and 3% is fresh water.14.  1 liter of ocean water contains 13 billionth of the gold element of 1 gram of gold.15.  Each year, 2,000 new marine species are described.16.  90% of marine waste is plastic17.  It is thought that an average of 1,000,000 species live in the oceans.  Moreover, only 33% of all ocean species are thought to have been discovered.18.  On average, 8-12 people die each year due to shark attacks.  Every year, around 100,000,000 sharks die from human attacks.19.  2 people die every second.20.  To date, 106,000,000,000 people have lived on our planet.  When we reach the year 2050, it is estimated that there will be 9,200,000,000 people in the world.21.  Otters sleep holding hands.22.  Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and paint with the other at the same time.  The octopus, called the mimic octopus, not only changes color, but can also take on the shape of animals such as sole fish, lionfish and sea snakes.24.  In the 1960s, the CIA turned cats into listening devices by surgically implanting microphones, batteries and antennas into cats, in its program called Acoustic Kitten, for spying on Russian consulates25.  The world's 3 richest families have more wealth than the combined wealth of the 48 poorest countries26.  There are more than 200 bodies of climbers on Mount Everest.27.  In Raw Fiction, all clocks show 04.20.28.  When a male lion takes over, he executes all the cubs.29.  Two-thirds of the world's people have never seen snow30.  The creatures of the now extinct 'Woolly mammoth' species of mammoth existed when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.