Selfie Agatha Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011) self-important culture will lead to

self-important culture will lead to dire consequences

who favor working on their own over working in teams

Although geographically and occupationally diverse

redolent with the authentic

or are you as much a mystery to yourself as others are to you

Selfie Agatha Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011) self-important culture will lead toWe live in the age of the individual. We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our cultures image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media. Were told that to be this person you just have to follow your dreams, that our potential is limitless, that we are the source of our own success. But this model of the perfect self can be extremely dangerous.