The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans Life in the USA is a complete guide to American life for immigrants and Americans. All rights reserved. Personal Growth Americans, whether religious or not, often actively seek personal growth and self improvement. Numerous groups, leaders, books and courses exist to help them attain that personal growth. Charismatic public speakers like Dr. Wayne Dyer, Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins, Steven Covey and Dr. Robert Schuller have become best-selling authors and fill large arenas by giving professional lectures about human growth.
Most bookstores have personal growth sections.
There are basically two types of personal growth books. The first is the general positive thinking type of inspirational success book. The first great book of this type was Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking which came out in the 1950's. Experts write books, sell tape seminars and give live presentations to large audiences on their particular self developmental subjects. It's big business.