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Author distills self-help through the ages

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Roman Krzarnic is a British author, teacher and philosopher whose latest book, “How Should We Live?” looks at 12 of humanity’s touchstones such as love, money, creativity and time, and then explores what thinkers throughout history have written about them.Krzarnic tells Current State host Mark Bashore that most self-help books focus too much on improving just the individual.

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