Name: How Social Media Has Fueled the Rise of the Personal-Growth Narrative @TheAtlantic
Uploaded: 2026-08-12T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Social-media algorithms are boosting growth narratives, and it is pushing people to share only how they’re getting better, the author Kathryn Jezer-Morton tells Charlie Warzel: “It’s a very convenient way of telling your story as a person, in a way that other people can understand.”

How Social Media Has Fueled the Rise of the Personal-Growth Narrative @TheAtlantic

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Social-media algorithms are boosting growth narratives, and it is pushing people to share only how they’re getting better, the author Kathryn Jezer-Morton tells Charlie Warzel: “It’s a very convenient way of telling your story as a person, in a way that other people can understand.”